Boot Failure, Repair Failure!

Hi all,

I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
message ...

i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!

I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?

thanx alot,

Drouin

What was on the floppy? Doesn't sound too good!!
While you had it on the other comp, did you do a GOOD virus test?
Did you put it back to master?
You might want to check the HIDDEN boot.ini while in other comp?
Read another thread by Victor Lam on 30/07/2003........ 4:26
BruceM

"Drouin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0a5401c35681$8c75dbd0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all,
>
> I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
> again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
> A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
> tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
> system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
> my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
> message ...
>
> i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
> original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
> boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!
>
> I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
> don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
> connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
> drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
> tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?
>
> thanx alot,
>
> Drouin

Thanx guys !!!

and special thank to Kent

I'm really thankful for the help, it was all about a
boot-sector Virus called Eek(b)


Drouin

You're welcome. I hate those boot sector viruses. You can even get
infected when you shutdown your system with an infected floppy in the
drive.

I hope you installed an AV background scanner with boot sector virus
protection.

I am assuming that the Recovery Console helped you recover, or did you
rely on your chosen AV product to fix the boot sector problem? Thanks
for the feedback.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Drouin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:04eb01c358c2$56bb21b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanx guys !!!
>
> and special thank to Kent
>
> I'm really thankful for the help, it was all about a
> boot-sector Virus called Eek(b)
>
>
> Drouin