Re: Boot Problem

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:34:15 -0700

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

> Thank you for responding. I had a problem that would not
> go away. So, I was told the only was to completely clean
> the drive was to repartition it. Which everything went
> find until I was told to put in the second boot disk??
> The second disk said "media error" and gave me an A:>
> prompt. I have not been able to get the second disk to
> work. Joan

You need to be booting with the XP cd, not the floppies. Set your
computer to boot from the cd (in the BIOS) if it is not already set
that way, boot from the XP cd and proceed with the Repair Install.

Malke

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