I cleared my hard drive now I get A: How do I boot XP? DOS?
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I cleared my hard drive now I get A: How do I boot XP? DOS?
I cleared my hard drive, now I get A: How do I boot XP? With DOS? Will this give me C: ?
In other words, now that I have a wiped hard drive what menu part of Ultimate Boot CD do I go to too load Windows XP from the Windows XP installation CD?
Is it DOS or FreeDOS or something?
Thank's in Advance
In other words, now that I have a wiped hard drive what menu part of Ultimate Boot CD do I go to too load Windows XP from the Windows XP installation CD?
Is it DOS or FreeDOS or something?
Thank's in Advance
How did you wipe the XP partition? You'd only be able to natively access the volume provided it was formatted as FAT16/32. However, you shouldn't need UBCD if all you want is to re-install XP; simply insert your XP installation CD into your CD/DVD-drive and boot.
Edit: I suspect what you want is a CD that boots into a live XP environment. If that's the case, you may want to look at UBCD4Win (google it).
What is it you're trying to do?
Edit: I suspect what you want is a CD that boots into a live XP environment. If that's the case, you may want to look at UBCD4Win (google it).
What is it you're trying to do?
"If you think things can't get any worse it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination."
PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, check cable.
Just to trying the debate into the open...
Try this, then get back to me.
It sounds like your BIOS may be attempting to boot via network. Do you receive any other messages past this? If you can, access your BIOS settings and change the boot order so that your CD drive is placed at a higher priority.bluebootxp wrote:I tried putting in the XP CD and after the press any key it says: PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, check cable...
Try this, then get back to me.
"If you think things can't get any worse it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination."
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PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Argon PXE Boot Agent v2.00
Pre-boot eXecution Environment
PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
I go to the bios and the boot devices are:
1st Boot Device [CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD]
2nd Boot Device [SATA: WDC WDI200BEV]
3rd Boot Device [Network: PXE UNDI CB]
I select the CD/DVD just in case it might bring attention to it as the 1st device in case it's overlooked or something and then it comes back saying: PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
...and again it goes:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
Pre-boot eXecution Environment
PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
I go to the bios and the boot devices are:
1st Boot Device [CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD]
2nd Boot Device [SATA: WDC WDI200BEV]
3rd Boot Device [Network: PXE UNDI CB]
I select the CD/DVD just in case it might bring attention to it as the 1st device in case it's overlooked or something and then it comes back saying: PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
...and again it goes:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
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PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Argon PXE Boot Agent v2.00
Pre-boot eXecution Environment
PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
I go to the bios and the boot devices are:
1st Boot Device [CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD]
2nd Boot Device [SATA: WDC WDI200BEV]
3rd Boot Device [Network: PXE UNDI CB]
I select the CD/DVD just in case it might bring attention to it as the 1st device in case it's overlooked or something and then it comes back saying: PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
...and again it goes:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
Pre-boot eXecution Environment
PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
I go to the bios and the boot devices are:
1st Boot Device [CD/DVD: MATSHITADVD]
2nd Boot Device [SATA: WDC WDI200BEV]
3rd Boot Device [Network: PXE UNDI CB]
I select the CD/DVD just in case it might bring attention to it as the 1st device in case it's overlooked or something and then it comes back saying: PXE-E61 Media Test failure, check cable.
...and again it goes:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key
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I can boot the Ultimate Boot CD from it.
I can boot the Ultimate Boot CD from it.
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I tried another XP Installation CD and it still says same
I tried another XP Installation CD and it still says the same thing though
This is bizarre. Irrespective of how your hard disk is formatted, the Windows XP installation CD should boot regardless; the fact that UBCD manages to boot makes the problem all the more confusing.
Are you sure your installation CD is genuine or hasn't been damaged in any way? Can you test the CD on another machine?
Are you sure your installation CD is genuine or hasn't been damaged in any way? Can you test the CD on another machine?
"If you think things can't get any worse it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination."
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Both the XP CD's boot in other computers
Both the XP CD's boot in other computers, I think this might be because they have the NTFS on the test computer already.
I'm thinking I might have to get a Windows 98 CD and load that first because of the DOS FAT or FAT32 file system and once that is installed then I will have a working windows environment to run the XP setup.exe from and then format upgrade to NTFS when asked during the installation.
Could you go over the steps to get the dosntfs command going from ramdisk Q: and then CD/D: .....[change directory to the rom drive letter, maybe D: and then run setup from that environment....or something.]
I'm thinking I might have to get a Windows 98 CD and load that first because of the DOS FAT or FAT32 file system and once that is installed then I will have a working windows environment to run the XP setup.exe from and then format upgrade to NTFS when asked during the installation.
Could you go over the steps to get the dosntfs command going from ramdisk Q: and then CD/D: .....[change directory to the rom drive letter, maybe D: and then run setup from that environment....or something.]
Okay, try this...
Boot into DOS using UBCD
Format the hard drive using FAT32 (Ranish Partition Manager can do this)
Once complete, insert your XP installation CD and copy the I386 folder to your hard drive.
Then, change directory to your installation source...
That should get you going.
Boot into DOS using UBCD
Format the hard drive using FAT32 (Ranish Partition Manager can do this)
Once complete, insert your XP installation CD and copy the I386 folder to your hard drive.
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md c:\i386
cd t:\i386
copy *.* c:\i386
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c:
cd i386
winnt.exe
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Ranish Partition Manager
I can't find Ranish Partition Manager in the menu. Is it in:
Installation Tools
Diagnostic Tools
Device Management Tools
Wiping Tools
Cloning Tools
...or
Low-Level Editing Tools
Installation Tools
Diagnostic Tools
Device Management Tools
Wiping Tools
Cloning Tools
...or
Low-Level Editing Tools