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October 5, 2005 at 06:22 AM
dlburgess17

XP Boot disk failure

by dlburgess17 . Updated 20 years, 9 months ago

I built a pc a year ago and ran 98SE. I wiped the drive to install XP but had install problems. Best guess was a HD problem.

I purchased a new HD and install worked smoothly.
However a short time later I began experiencing problems. A couple times it refused to boot up.

I have reinstalled several times.

Things seemed to be working and I’ve loaded various programs.

But now I get a boot disk failure message. I insert the CD Rom and it loads immediately.

How do I troubleshoot this. Can I repair the boot sector without funning FDISK?

I can’t believe I have two bad hard drives.

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