My Fathers pc won't boot into windows. The system boots then you get the XP boot screen then the monitor shows an error as if the monitor isn't plugged in. I thought the boot & MBR were corrupt so i inserted his XP Disk and went to Recovery Console. I firstly entered the command FIXMBR to which this was successful. Secondly i commanded to FIXBOOT to which i got the following error "FIXBOOT cannot find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid".
I tried to google the exact error but i still haven't got a clear indication on what or why it has suddenly dissapeared.
Is it possible to create a boot.ini file with the following and place it in the system root?
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition" /fastdetect
Thanks
Stuarty
-------------------- Vista Ultimate x32 | E6750 1333FSB INTEL CORE DUO CPU | 1GB DDRII 800Mhz Mem | 560GB SATA2 HDD | FIREFOX | Blueyonder 10 Mb Broadband | Sams Web Site
Thanks for your reply but i have resolved the problem. I went through the link commands and found that i was unable to execute the bootcfg /add or bootcfg /rebuild as it found errors on the HDD. I then connected the HDD to my pc and before i could boot to windows my system found errors on the problem disk. It found indexes that needed to be deleted in particular "$usnJrnl, oem13.inf, oem13.pnf & oem13.cat" These files seem to be allocated to the SP2 and when deleted the system booted as normal. Not sure why it happened but grateful that xp detected the problem and fixed it.
Thanks again
Stuarty
-------------------- Vista Ultimate x32 | E6750 1333FSB INTEL CORE DUO CPU | 1GB DDRII 800Mhz Mem | 560GB SATA2 HDD | FIREFOX | Blueyonder 10 Mb Broadband | Sams Web Site
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