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Boot XP from CD-Rom? Need help fellas...
shardian:
I had a boot problem last week. It would freeze up and never load. This happened while setting up an Ipod shuffle.
Make sure that you unplug all USB devices and that the cd drive is empty, then restart.
sirwoogie:
You'll have to do some more basic troubleshooting first before we can narrow things down.
* You mention the system posts. Does the BIOS detect the hard drive at all?
* Is the hard drive in a RAID setup, or is it a single one?
* After BIOS POST, you only get a blank screen? Nothing else from the Bootloader?
* What were you doing with the machine prior to the failed reboot? Did you install any applications, OS upgrades, or mucking with system files?
* Did you add or remove any hardware (e.g. USB drives, new memory, etc.)?
As for a boot CD, you have a few options. You can get a number of Linux bootable CDs such as Knoppix or DOS CD's like Hirens BootCD and UBCD to do some repair. You can also get a preinstall environment such as BartPE or WinPE, but this requires that you have your original media to build it. This basically gives you a Windows environment boot CD. You can also buy recovery software such as Winternals Administrators Pack. As Shmokes said, you can find many of these things from less sanctioned areas (e.g. full BartPE ISOs, etc.). But, you're not going to get those types of links here.
Hope this helps.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: Samstag on April 12, 2007, 10:28:49 pm ---Get a live linux iso (knoppix, fedora, zenwalk, etc). You're probably going to find that your hard drive is not available.
--- End quote ---
This would be my guess as well. I'm betting your hard drive kicked the bucket... or you had some other type of hardware failure.
Donkey_Kong:
Guys- Thanks for the help. Was able to finally boot up windows. Only problem now is that I lost about 200 gigs of data and I don't know how many programs(lots)
:cry:
Ok done crying...Fresh start time... :woot
shmokes:
If even part of the drive is accessible, probably all of your data is recoverable with cheap, over-the-counter recovery software. If you've got important files in there, get them back before you go formatting your hard drive and losing it all forever (at least making it so only a data forensics lab can get it back)
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