Computer won't boot up, help!

[Marthax]

I'm on it right now. I'll let you know in a few minutes. Thanks a lot for the help svasutin. Really appreciate it.

EDIT: When the "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM" appears, it says: "1.FD 1.44 MB System Type-(19)" And after that "NTLDR is missing".

Edited July 18, 2005 by Marthax

[svasutin]

when you get your system back:

D:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons

where d is the drive letter holding your slip xp cd

[svasutin]

ok, give me a moment

[svasutin]

1 sector on a Cd is 2048 bytes

My boot.ini is 211 bytes so that's 1 sector

My ntdetect.com is 47564 bytes so that's 24 sectors

ntldr is 250048 bytes so 123 sectors

Select no emulation and use 148 sectors?

That doesn't sound right.

I did this one time with Win2k (which has a different ntldr and ntdetect files).

[svasutin]

let me check into nero's help file

[edit] I'm still looking, about to burn my own

Edited July 18, 2005 by svasutin

[Marthax]

Alright, take your time. I appreciate it, once again.

I also tried to replacing the scsi settings in boot.ini with multi, as you stated before, but that didn't work. scsi is the way to go in this situation.

EDIT: 148 is impossible. The range is 1 - 128.

Edited July 18, 2005 by Marthax

[svasutin]

My original boot img for my pc didn't work, but I just remembered I'm booting off part(3) on this system.

Will be back

[Marthax]

Svasutin, if it's too much to do, I could just reinstall windows. I mean, I don't wanna be a pain in the a** for your sake. You've given me so much help already.

Edited July 18, 2005 by Marthax

[svasutin]

Thank you, but help would only be if I actually got your system running.

You could, if you had another ntfs system, connect up your drive as a slave, and then copy fresh ntldr and create a new boot.ini file.

I think I need to create the XP floppies, and then burn them to a CD, and then image.

In three tests so far, I can't seem to get my system to boot from the CD

Oh well, we tried.

[Marthax]

Yeah, and I appreciate it alot. Thank you for your help & time!

[svasutin]

I'm pretty sure the problem is in my sector size....

Did you try just creating a regular CD with the files?

I suppose, when I go to reformat in 18 days, I'm going to first delete the ntldr file and try a few CDs.

Track this topic, as this is something I should have anyway.

[Marthax]

Yes, I tried and it didn't work.

I'll sure track this topic so that I know how to fix this kind of problems in the future.

[interminded]

Well, I'm gonna track this topic also !

Gotten quite curious how to handle this sh***y problem ...

This can happen to every one of us..

Good luck with the re-install Marthax !

[Marthax]

Thanks man

[Marthax]

Well, I'll try to be as short as I can as I re-tell the whole story on how I fixed it.

I started out by creating the XPCDSP2 with slipstreamed SATA drivers. That didn't work as it gave me a message saying that some of my setup files were corrupt :blink (I redid this once again and got the same message) so I gave up on that part. I thought that it was all lost and that I would be forced to format with my UAXPCD and loose all my info on my SATA HDD, but then I remembered that I had a IDE HDD inside my computer for backups which I could use for temporary Windows installation!. So, I installed Windows on it and booted into Windows, installed the SATA drivers and I was back on track. I did a backup of all stuff and formatted the HDD with my almost finished UACD.

That's all folks. It was a hell of a fight, but I finally made it. It's funny, how you can wake up one day and suddenly, your computer refuses to boot. I guess that it has tought me a lesson, always backup all your work!

Edited July 18, 2005 by Marthax