Re: can not boot. by rpmsfpr
rpmsfpr
Sat Oct 07 03:29:01 CDT 2006
Hola Mart, Thank you for dropping by.. .. You know, funny you ask, 'cause
just before I opened your reply I was thinking , I'm really not sure about
the missing boot files,,, I was actually guessing because I can not boot, so
it only make sense to this, your humble diciple... and if can not see them ,
well again, I honestly believed can not see 'cause they miss and if they miss
, no boot, and round and round I go in this dizzy spell and that's how I
figure,,, sorry,,, no Black Magic for me I guess.... this happened some while
ago and I've been trying all kind of fixing , nothing works, ... my friend
lend me his laptop so that I can at least check my emails and do research for
a solution and here I am... the more I think about how was I so stupid to
delete whatever it was I deleted, my mind gets blurry and rather not remember
and keep looking for a way.... all I know is when I turn pc on I get "Invalid
system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key".... .. I take ,disk
means boot up disk,,, so I put in a: and nothing, back to message, then I put
OEM restoration cd in dvd burner,,, and nothing,,,,, switch it to dvd player,
and nothing,,.. but I tell you Mart, I press F1 and got BIOS screen and boy
I was happy to see that... at least thought I can bring my baby back,,, don't
know why 'cause I have no idea about BIOS,, well more or less I know
something from playing wannabe pc technician and have even changed things
around ,,, stupid again?? ,, any way too late .. hoping that option "restore
default" will set it back the way it was... but I think I read something
about if you change BIOS it will save as default and then was not sure if got
back to original state.. but, Im thinking the more I tell you , the more your
diagnosiss will be "defunct" "R I P" and I start thinking of the places my
mouse has clicked and belive I desconnected the a: and drives myself bby
going into what I think or figured while in my wannabe state, the BIOS
version of windows ,,, "device manager"in the system icon of control
panel..... Im probably wrong about that but the fact is that I went and
upgraded some of the drivers and,.... oh no..;. I am writing and thinking
you saying what a dumn idiot
.... the useless a: drive.... right???? that's where it happened?? that's
where I made it obsolete???. I forget what of many accidents I had then and
had to boot in safe mode, I believe it was, somehow I had to chose to reboot
with or without drives or something like that and really forgot how it went
but ever since , even though I fix my then problem I was not able to access
my a: drive and for that matter, my dvd player located at the top,, under the
dvd I have my cd rom burner and that one worked and with some little
difficulty I was able to restore , . I got used to having only that one drive
which eventually I upgraded with a dvd burner a friend gave me for Christmas
and once in a while I will miss my A: drive or my dvd player when I was
burning cds ... as I start to explore dvd burning , movie making and all them
wonderful things I start having trouble with memory and crashing after just
burning two cd's with Nero, and I was blaming Nero 'cause I had no trouble
when doing with Easy Creator 5 . so I unistalled Nero and got Easy back but
one of it features that deals with cut and paste , and drag to cd without
burning would not load and puzzled did not know what's going on... .. ..
that's another thing... because not drag feature , I can not access all this
files I have in cds I dragged when backing up and saving them for one of my
many computer fixing performance and ,,, well , I have lived with that ,
thinking one day I solve that one , but . ....... OH GOD I've never seen my
problem in writing and looks like a real BIG mess
... dont know what's gonna happen and your reply gave me both hope of
resurrection and resignation to let go and get a new hard drive to start
.... .. can not say it again , it hurts, to start .. to start all over
again..... THere... I said it.... I willing to relive my painful pc past if
that's going to help you help me.. I really appreciate you taking time to
read me , especially since I have trouble making short stories... Im going
to next reply and see what awaits me.... Hasta la bye bye Mart and thank you.
"Mart" wrote:
> Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to
> summarise *my* take of your report :-
>
> 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe
> 2) your A: drive isn't functioning.
> 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or
> your floppy start-up disk.
>
> (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing
> from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently)
>
> Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway.
>
> And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would
> suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the
> old one doesn't work) - you're going to need.
>
> Mart
>
>
> "rpmsfpr" <rpmsfpr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4DDEA212-4F33-4D93-98A6-A6C5D76BEEC1@microsoft.com...
> > I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not
> > even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I
> > google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky ,
> > sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish
> > I
> > knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current
> > problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem
> > .
> > I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my
> > pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is
> > leading
> > my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a:
> > drive
> > to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about
> > not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading
> > up
> > on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery
> > myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that......
> > mistake
> > happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up
> > floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my
> > preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying
> > out
> > this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate
> > files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the
> > originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I
> > have
> > no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive
> > for
> > quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here
> > will
> > bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here
> > comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the
> > floppy.
> > Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making
> > long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy
> > before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading
> > about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to
> > hard
> > to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por
> > Favor.
> > Ricardo
>
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