iainstott Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Dont reall know where to post this but hope someone can help.My pc wont boot unless it has a windows bootable CD/DVD in the drive. It first started when i had Vista installed but as i was planning to go back to a dual boot setup i didn't bother looking into it as i though it would fix when i re-formatted. Now i have formatted and installed XP, the problem is still there. Am not going to stick Vista on incase i need to re-format. Anyone have any ideas???? Many thanks in advance Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 what happens when it won't boot? just get a blank screen? do you get error messages when a windows cd is not in the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Try setting the boot order to Floppy, Hard Drive then CD. Or put the hard drive first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buseeliu Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 furthermore, can you paste the details of boot.ini from your C:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoic Joker Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Vista uses a completely different boot loader than XP, have you tried running fixmbr from the XP recovery console? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainstott Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 Sorry been away for a while and only just got back.When it wont boot it just gets past the P.O.S.T and then nothing, just stops.Have tried setting the drives in diffeerent orders but still nothing.Have tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT but with no posotive results.[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetectOne of my friends has recommended trying to debug my drives but after a little reading up am a bit affraid it will screw up my drives.Many thanks Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainstott Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 (edited) Sorted now, used a debug script of another forum and it worked like a charm.For those interested here it is.Boot to Win98SE startup disk (It is the best OS made boot disk ever). Type in debug at the A: prompt. Enter in the following commands: Blue: what you type in. Pink: what is displayed on the screen. (DO NOT TYPE THIS IN!) Black: this is useful information. (DO NOT TYPE THIS IN!) ===================================================================== To delete partitions on a hard drive: ------------------------------------------- -F 220 L1000 0 (ENTER) -A CS: 100 (ENTER) xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 (ENTER) xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 (ENTER) xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 (ENTER) xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (ENTER) <---"80" for hd1, "81" for hd2 > xxxx:010C INT 13 (ENTER) xxxx:010E INT 20 (ENTER) xxxx:0110 (ENTER) <BLANK> -G (ENTER) Program terminated normally - (CTRL)-(ALT)-(DEL) to reboot system Edited June 1, 2007 by iainstott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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