XP boot failure. Two drives.?
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
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you could just throw in a windows xp cd and delete the partitions\nthen format it back to ntfs
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I guess I would need a bit more information such as have you tried rebooting?  How long has this been an issue?  Here is my answer.\n\nIf you have not already re booted, I would suggest trying that then looking for the drives once again.
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Hi there,\n\nChances are it has died. Suggest you buy a DVD +-RW for the machine and try it out. Will cost relative peanuts and cuts out the hastle of jumping through the warranty hoops - which will invariably also include wiping your XP install and all data.\n\nOf course, there is a chance there is nothing wrong with your existing drive. I have seen several machines recently where virus and spyware infections have corrupted Windows. The device is shown, will even eject through software but... will not read CD's.\n\nThe easiest way to confirm is restart in Safe mode (F8 every second or so when the box is starting and BEFORE the XP screen) When the machine has started, throw in a Data CD and see if it reads it. If it does, you've a Windows problem rather than hardware.\nThat being the case...\n\nDo a virus scan in safe mode. Do a spyware scan in safe mode. Restart the PC and click Start / Run / Type SFC  /ScanNow {press enter}\nGo have some dinner... this bit is s l o w like an Englishman.\nWhen it has completed, restart the PC and try a CD\n\nIf still no joy, do a ReInstall in Place of XP. (Do a Google search for 'How do I do a re-install in place for Windows XP for concise instructions'\n\nHopefully though, the CD will not work in safe mode.
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can you duel boot? partition the HDD & then have seperaste o/s on each partition.\n\nI have winxp & linspire 5-0 running on 1 pc.
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I had a friend who did the same thing, he put xp on and realized it could barely boot up. Just put in the win98 cd and let it format the drive during installation. Make sure you have all the drivers for 98 BEFORE installing. Find out what drivers you will need. That is the hardest part by far.
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You can install Win Xp on the other drive on start up you will be asked which operating system do you want to log on to to you can chose 98 or xp on every start up :-)\nIf you have win98 on C: install Win XP on D: or any other drive ;-)\n\nYou owe me 10 points pal ! ;-)
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You need to make sure you set your file system to fat32 not NTFS in order to dual boot. You lose security but you're able to dual boot.\nhope it helps
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it;s not your bios ...try setup the bios default settings, try then ...and if this dos'n work...\n\nalso try making new partitions
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Do not delete the C drive. Use this drive to store files.\n\nIf you want you can reinstall XP, but that is a different situation.
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If you get the message "Non system disk" upon bootup and you can't get rid of it, it looks like your hard drive crashed.  If the boot sector on the hard drive is toast, it can't boot up and you'll get that message.\n\nAs for fixing it... I honestly hope you didn't have anything important on it.\n\nLets see... Double-check there's no disks in any drives, including CD-ROMs.  Try going into your BIOS setup and resetting it to the defaults. If none of this works, you may have to take more drastic measures.\n\nIf you have another PC, you can take the hard drive out and put it in as a slave in the second PC. This will at least allow you to copy off anything you need.\n\nIf you don't have another PC, you can try re-installing windows over itself. Just make sure you don't re-format or re-partition in the process.  As long as you keep the current file system, you won't lose any data.
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Dunno if u can get 2 run fdisk\ndelete partitions\nre-create partitions \nmake c: active\nformat c: & d:\ninstall win xp on c:\n\nbest of luck !
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At this point I would repartition, reformat and re-install.  This will erase everything.\n\nIf you are running XP, insert the XP disc and reboot the computer.  When the setup program runs, you can delete the existing partitions and make a new one.\n\nYou can find instructions here:  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348
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try this\nget it into windows then go start&#92;run\n type in " sfc /scannow\n with the xp disk in\n should fix any corrupt files\n\n sounds like your boot.ini file is wrong.\n search for boot.ini, should look like this\n[boot loader]\ntimeout=3\ndefault=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)&#92;WINDOWS\n[operating systems]\nmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)&#92;WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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I think you might have to delete the partitions then create one partition for your whole drive.  I hope it works out for you.
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yes, but you have to do some master slave settings, as you may end up formatting your xp, so, boot by the usb hdd, and there you can create partitions, using the win98 cd.
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Edit the boot menu (usually GRUB or LILO) to remove the other choice. You might want to research documentation on how to do this. Then, just format the drive of the one you want to remove.