Windows boot issues

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Before April 2007 I had never used an OS properly since Windows 95 although I did use 98 but not much.

 

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If there is a floppy in the drive, and if the boot order is set to check the floppy first, then you will not get specific NT type boot errors (ntldr ntdetect etc) because the BIOS is OS unaware at this stage. you will get cannot find system errors.

 

Harry, i think you've had one too many glasses of red

 

So... how many OSes have you used improperly?

 

Actualy you *can* get these. The boot sector created under Win2k, for example, is not the same as that for DOS/Win9x. And it is the boot sector code that produces the error.

And I *have* seen this fault - and most times cured it by popping out the floppy the owner had forgotten about.

Harry.

 

While that is frequently true I do try and stay sober during the day!


Harry.

 

prbably windows for workgroups and system 7

 

Ok, this flys in the face of what my experience and reading has taught me Harry. Can you allaborate on this, so that i can comprehend it better? The boot sector for example, is on a hard drive.. not in the BIOS or on a floppy??

 

True it is not in the BIOS, but it *can* be on a floppy. It is how the floppy boots! It gets there by doing format /s or sys a: in DOS, and the equivalent in a GUI.

I'd better have a go at reproducing this problem so we can all understand it better.

Harry.

 

Ok, it can be on a floppy but the only way i can think you might get an NT specific message, is if it was an NT, W2K, XP recovery boot up disk of some kind