February 4, 200719 yr Ok.. so every other day my pc works fine, i've got a boot manager installed but i recently took every other boot option apart from XP off, so that was the only one left. It continued to work fine for another month or two, but now suddenly, my boot manager is reporting that theres no boot options.. Formatting doesnt seem to work as the boot manager is embedded into the registry. Anybody know of a way i can get this working again without data loss? I am willing to spend a bit of cash to sort this out.
February 4, 200719 yr Have you tried booting it up with a linux type os? You don't need to install anything, you can access all your files, back them up and format. Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.
February 4, 200719 yr Author no, because i cant get anywhere near an OS i can get BIOS and thats it.. and id rather not put linux on this PC via a CD because its a family PC and most of my family dont know what linux is - let alone how to use it.
February 4, 200719 yr You don't need to install anything All you need to do is make sure your computer looks in your cd rom when it boots up via the bios, start the computer with the cd in and choose boot from cd. You can do pretty much anything that you could do normally with windows, except run [Caution: ExecutableFile] files. http://www.linspire.com Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.
February 5, 200719 yr Go to http://www.cheetahburner.com and download a 15 day free trial of the CD burner. Then use that program to burn the .ISO file to a 700mb CD-R and boot from that. Retired
February 5, 200719 yr Author like i said - no linux.. anyway.. im gettin a new HDD and putting windows on that and settin my old one to slave to solve this. No data loss and 250gb of new space.
February 5, 200719 yr Your not even installing it, just booting up from it. Its from the cd so no files are put on your computer :wall: Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.
February 5, 200719 yr Author Your not even installing it, just booting up from it. Its from the cd so no files are put on your computer :wall: well iv sort of fixed it now - new HDD and running the old one as slave.. I dont like linux anyway
February 5, 200719 yr Booting from a liveCD is useless if he doesn't already know how to fix it. If he already knew how to fix it, he wouldn't be here asking. Your best bet if you're going back to running just windows (and this is only if you truly only want windows to boot) is to run fixboot and fixmbr from the Windows install disc (the recovery console). This will wipe whatever boot loader you had installed and will reinstall the default windows loader while not touching your actual Windows install and data. Edit: I guess I was too slow. :XD:
February 6, 200719 yr Booting from a liveCD is useless if he doesn't already know how to fix it. If he already knew how to fix it, he wouldn't be here asking. back them up and format. Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.
February 6, 200719 yr well have you tried system restoring it to before you removed the boot files? that helped me when i screwed up the files :P PLAYER QUEST: The Spoils of War
February 7, 200719 yr Author well have you tried system restoring it to before you removed the boot files? that helped me when i screwed up the files :P uh.... yeah... there are no boot files that have been moved - and this boot manager has been there for three years and just started messing up also - how do you suppose i system restore when i cant boot the PC and i dont have a recovery disc.. anyway - got a new hdd to solve this problem
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