That's very easy if it won't boot from CD...

ups, missed that one.
So use a "Disk" then with CD drives..

Change the boot sequence in your BIOS. Since the pc thinks there's a valid OS on C: it doesn't look at D: and hence you can't boot from the CD.

my system repair disks didn't work, however I'm making more from another computer... any other ideas??

Yes, I did that.. it goes in and asks me if i need to install raid drivers, I select no.. and then it reboots

i had this happen, got sick of not being able to fix it and gave it to a friend, he threw it away.. good luck man

I'm not sure if I am correct, I use win98 on all of my machines and that is what i'm best at trouble shooting with.

Reset your bios to the default settings and run a step by step bootup(should be able to choose that with a F8 bootup), say yes to everything making a note of each one, after you click yes on the last one (and it reboots) you should have found your problem. Its most likely a bad/corrupt driver file.

Did you buy the 2K OS or was it crack activated?

I've had the same thing happen too. My computer won't recognize a CD Rom drive and it won't go online. My external drives aren't helping either.

I gave up and started using my other machine.

I feel ya.

Disconnect your cd drive and see if it boots ok.. If so=bad drive..

Could also be the power supply starting to bite the dust..

Sharky,

When you try booting it up next try pressing F4 (i think) that might take you into a systems setting for the main BIOS you should be able to reset the machines configurable settings etc in there to make it boot from a floppy.

it is corrupt windows system files.. xp/2000 has the same problem.. you can solve it 99% of the time by booting from the windows cd and selecting install restore.. that will replace all your windows system file without losing your files on the drive

if that doesnt work it is put hard drive in other pc.. back up data and do a brand new install.. but as i say 99% off the time you can restore as i sad above


Good Luck!

That's what I used...

So Sharky, now that you've gotten 10 different diagnoses and cures, are you finally ready to give in and format c: ?

:glugglug

'is it dead yet?'

do you even get a blue screen of death?

when you boot, do you see the desktop screen (as in blue screen but not blue screen of death) ?

do you see windows is starting up ? ...

does it just get to the blue screen then shows/doesnt shows windows is shutting down?


I had this problem once with 2k.. netlogon was the prob :)

http://www.apple.com/switch Problem solved.

always hippies trying to make you switch

:Graucho