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Carnagie
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Posted - 2007.12.13 15:55:00 -
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Hi wonder if anyone can help here mate of mine was affected by the Boot.ini crap and its been a week now and he still cant fix his machine, he is running a Dell XPS 600 windows XP home, 160gb Sata Hardrive, windows on the C drive, no other drives and only single partition on the drive.
When he boots using windows CD and runs recovery console its gives the error ( No hard disk installed ) so recovery console wont go past that part, when he boots using a linux CD he can see the C drive but Linux gives the message ( disk is ntfs would you like to force mount it ).
Anyone have any idea's?
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Pitt Bull
Caldari Naval Reserve
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Posted - 2007.12.13 15:59:00 -
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Sounds like a data corruption.
Only answer is to reformat.
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ISD Valorem
Amarr
ISD STAR
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Posted - 2007.12.13 16:01:00 -
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You may be better off submitting a petition on this issue.
The GM's have been dealing with the boot.ini issue daily and may be able to offer a solution.
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Tarminic
Forsaken Resistance
The Last Stand
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Posted - 2007.12.13 16:01:00 -
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Sounds like he might have a dying hard drive on his hands...
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DJ P
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Posted - 2007.12.13 16:06:00 -
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Edited by: DJ P on 13/12/2007 16:09:45
You need an XP SP2 boot CD to see SATA Drives.
Older XP versions do not work. You need to have a floppy disk with the drivers and select them by pressing F6 when the CD starts loading (it's prompting it briefly for few seconds).
Keep in mind that the Dell more likely that it will have 2 partitions.
1 for the Windows (2nd partition) and the invisible one for the recovery.
There was a suggestion to the boot.ini thread what to do in this case.
I believe the best way is (and should be considered as the best and easiest solution) to put the disk on another computer and copy the backup boot.ini from the windows folder into the root folder.
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Carnagie
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Posted - 2007.12.13 16:25:00 -
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 Originally by: DJ P
Edited by: DJ P on 13/12/2007 16:09:45
You need an XP SP2 boot CD to see SATA Drives.
Older XP versions do not work. You need to have a floppy disk with the drivers and select them by pressing F6 when the CD starts loading (it's prompting it briefly for few seconds).
Keep in mind that the Dell more likely that it will have 2 partitions.
1 for the Windows (2nd partition) and the invisible one for the recovery.
There was a suggestion to the boot.ini thread what to do in this case.
I believe the best way is (and should be considered as the best and easiest solution) to put the disk on another computer and copy the backup boot.ini from the windows folder into the root folder.
Cheers mate sounds like you might have the solution. I'll give it a try for him. Thank you.
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Pakalolo
Tha Shiznit
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Posted - 2007.12.13 16:41:00 -
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fyi you can get the SATA driver floppy you need from dell.com just enter your service tag number to find model and goto downloads and drivers page.
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