Re: Packard Hell

Conor wrote:
In article <468629e8$0$27859$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trevor Best
says...
Dr.H@l0nf1r£$ wrote:

"Non-system disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key"

Is the partition marked as active? You might be able to do something
booting into the XP recovery console and trying fixboot and fixmbr (I
think those were the commands since they moved them out of fdisk)
seems fdisk is no longer there, that could have been used to mark a
partition active.

If not try putting the disk into another PC and use the disk manager
on there to mark it as active.

I agree. The error message is because it can't find a partition that's
been flagged as bootable.

Thanks everyone; I used fdisk from a Win 98 boot disk and deleted all the
partitions, then created a single partition using the XP setuo disk and am
currently installing XP.

Thank you for your help.


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