Guest safetyguard Posted October 30, 2008 Posted October 30, 2008 Have windows XP Pro. SP3, windows will not start, starts at black screen (normal safemode Ect.) this machine also has a 2nd HD that I mirrored of the the orig drive I thought my main drive went bad so I switch the jumper on the mirrored drive (back-up drive) from slave to master disconnected orig. drive and still same thing. Tried to boot off CD to repair windows say's "operating sys not found" Reset CMOS reconfig boot up devices Same thing Did my motherboard go bad?
Guest R. McCarty Posted October 30, 2008 Posted October 30, 2008 Re: windows will not boot Switching to the "Mirrored' drive probably introduced another variable into the situation. I'd just put the original drive back as Master and do not re-attach the mirrored Slave. If you enter BIOS setup does the Autodetect feature correctly ID your drive ? If so is it set as the secondary boot device ? If you still get the "Operating System Not Found" msg, you'll need some type of disk management tool to check the drive status. You need to verify that the Windows Volume is marked Active and that the partitioning is still in tact. ( No changes ). For this I use an Acronis product, Disk Mgmt. Doing a CMOS reset probably wasn't necessary as it also added new variables into a unbootable condition. "safetyguard" <safetyguard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6107709C-BF66-4636-ABC1-14FD840AD74F@microsoft.com... > Have windows XP Pro. SP3, windows will not start, starts at black screen > (normal safemode Ect.) > this machine also has a 2nd HD that I mirrored of the the orig drive > I thought my main drive went bad so I switch the jumper on the mirrored > drive (back-up drive) from slave to master disconnected orig. drive and > still > same thing. > Tried to boot off CD to repair windows say's "operating sys not found" > Reset CMOS reconfig boot up devices Same thing > > Did my motherboard go bad?
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