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reinstall Windows 2000
I have the boot menu that Windows 2000 stuck on, which gives me a choice of which operating system to start when I switch on the PC. When I try to start Windows 2000 though, I get the following message.... Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows 2000

System Information
The best I can determin is that even though the server is set to be a Global Catalog Server, when we retore it in the test environment with a seperated disconnected network, its still looking for other servers and will not start the GC function. The System in the production network passes DCDIAG and claims to be a

Use FP98 without connecting to LAN
Ways of restoring the W98 registry include: On the Start Menu, select Shut Down and Restart in MSDOS Mode. At the Windows prompt, type: scanreg /restore and hit enter. Won't work for me, since Win 98 does not start. Boot to the boot menu by holding down either the ctrl or F8 key after the ram count occurs on the

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I can start it in safemode but can't run my cd rom ->Check my configsys file and there nothing there same for my autobat ->file just blank Any Ideas out there...if Ii need to install windows ->again how can Ii get to use my cd rom ->Thanks for any help.....cliff Try pressing F8 during startup to get the boot menu

Newbie install problem
That may go ahead and do the dual boot for you. If not, then at first once the ME setup is finished, ME will be the only OS you can boot to. Start the 2000 setup again and choose the option to repair your installation so that it will repair the boot files. This should get your dual boot menu working for you.

upgrade gone bad
You can enter the boot menu by pressing F8 during the machine boot. Ian This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. The computer now won't boot at all, giving me the following message, "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or

Error Message
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware." I tried to do this (under NT4) to get a Linux partition to appear on the NT boot menu, and it complained about one of the NT files being missing. I just assumed it was complaining because that syntax is used to start NT partitions.

Windows will not start in Safemode
If IO.sys "knows" it isn't going to be running Windows - eg because a DOS Mode .pif is in session, or a different F8 boot menu choice was selected (or defaulted) - then it won't flash the splash. So a no-splash DOS boot is either a DOS Mode .pif that has not been EXITed yet (so Exit it; preserves both .pif and

How to correct msdos.sys file without floppy drive
We just set up two hardware configurations in the Hardware Profiles of the system setting and then you get a boot menu on start up. In the non-Lan profile disable the For some reason, when I start up the PC without connecting to the lan, FP will not start. Thanks, Tom Conklin David Berry wrote in message

HD Crash?
3) Partitions completely beyond the 1024th cylinder - forget it - can't even get them on the BM boot menu. But again, these restrictions have nothing at all to End result is then: - In LBA mode do not start bootable partition further than 8 Gb, or 7630 MB in FDISK units. - In Normal mode, 1024 th cylinder is at

Possible to start Recovery Console from diskette for XP
Upon rebooting, however, NT presented the multi-boot menu, but when I chose "NT 4.0," or even "NT 4.0 VGA," it came up with the following error message: Boot record signature AA55 not found (0001 found). Windows NT could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from

f8 at startup
The error I receive when running last known configuration is Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:> \windows\system32\config\system you When you press F8 early in the boot phase then you get a boot menu screen. (BTW - it's not a "DOS" screen - there is no DOS under Windows!).

Stop 5 services,then could not enter windows
Alt-F5: Start DOS normally, but do not start Windows. Like BOOTGUI=0. This key is much too handy to go undocumented! F6: Start Windows in "safe" mode like F5, only with network support. F8: Display boot menu, similar to BOOTMENU=1 but with no timeout. Shift-F8: Step-by-step confirmation. Another useful key.

Win98 does not start in normal mode?
Both start up in VGA compatible mode by default, but which EFI puts in some non-VGA mode right from the start. OK, thanks for the information. .... The whole idea of a graphical boot menu is inherently unportable. That's why abstracting the hardware is somewhat difficult. It's not unportable, it's just

Windows XP will not boot
Monte Etherton met...@attglobal.net microsoft public win2000 setup Just upgraded Tyan 1854s to BIOS v1.00, when trying to start W2K from the dual boot menu, I get a dos error: "Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer hardware disk configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk.

WFW upgrade to W98
Some other minor changes occurred along the way not worth mentioning. The current situation is I can boot either. However I always use tweakui to show the boot menu options at start up. The problem is 98SE's boot menu (chose 1-5, Safe, Prompt, etc) has now become invisible. Then at the very last second when it

Problemas en el Arranque.
Try to Restore Operation of Windows XP by Using the Last Known Good Configuration Functionality If Windows does not start, restart Windows by using the Last If a Boot menu appears, use the arrow keys to select Microsoft Windows XP, and then press ENTER. Windows XP starts your computer by using the registry

Can't boot or access files, help!
I can boot to NT but when i select windows 98 from the NT Bootloader screen, it does not start windows. it says 'WIN.com not found' and goes to DOS The WinNT installation routine will automatically set up a Multi-boot menu for you. The default settings for this menu can be readily edited from within WinNT.

Scandisk
I need the program just to exit to dos and not start windows again so they can turn of the computer. Do you know how I can solve this or any one I can ask. A slightly more complicated option is to have the windoze boot menu or a CONFIG.SYS menu set to automatically come up, thus allowing the user to choose

Blue screen flashed.
glee gle...@mindspring.com microsoft public win98 performance You can't start Windows from a boot with the start-up disk....it brings you to an A:\ prompt for troubleshooting from DOS. To boot to Safe Mode, simply start the computer without the floppy disk, hold down the CTRL key till the boot menu appears,