Thanks every one for the inputs ran chkdsk on the hard drive and it booted
just fine. I plan on downloading the disk diognostics soon. I believe a
new hard drive is in my future though. For the short term I am recovered.
Thanks again,
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Shirley Graver
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:41 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
You shouldn't have to reinstall, it should be pretty painless. There were
some other suggestions that were very good too, like getting a drive utility
from the HD manufacturer (hopefully its Maxtor) here is another trick if
you feel ambitious. Slave your drive to a system that has Crystal Reports,
and browse to the event logs (C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt) In
Crystal start a new report go in under MORE DATA SOURCES then browse to NT
ARCHIVED DATA SOURCES then browse to the above path. VIOLA you can pull out
all your system errors. This works on active event logs too, (actually you
can access any system on your network)
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
_____
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Katzenberger
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:27 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
Shirley,
Just so I know what I am up against. Will I need to do a complete reinstall
after I run fixboot?
Also, is this problem being created by updates writing to bad boot sectors?
Once I get the system back should I run scandisk or related utilities?
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Shirley Graver
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:04 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
If you have memory that you know is good try swapping out the memory. Also,
you can try pulling the drive and slaving it to a good system to test and
run fixdisk or some other repair. Also get a win98 boot disk to boot from
floppy and try and fix from that. Go here
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-
us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx for some repair instructions.
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Katzenberger
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:58 AM
To: Vantage User Group (E-mail)
Subject: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
Hi group,
Sorry for the off topic post but if anybody knows the answer it will be
here!
I was having a problem with my DSL connection to the internet my and could
not fix the problem. I dumped the system and re-installed XP and the DSL
connections and all was fine.
Reregistered the OS with MicroSoft and down loaded all the latest updates.
Happy as a clam, Retired for the night. NExt day turned on the computer
and......
Blue screen of death, "Bad Boot Sector Windows is shutting down to prevent
damage. Nothing I tried Safe Mode, Windows Repair, etc. worked.
Started over. All was fine again until updates were loaded. Shut down,
start up and same thing happened.
Do I have a flakey hard drive or is something in one of the latest patches
that does not agree with XP Home edition. Yes sorry this is a home computer.
Any help is appreciated.
Wayne
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just fine. I plan on downloading the disk diognostics soon. I believe a
new hard drive is in my future though. For the short term I am recovered.
Thanks again,
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Shirley Graver
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:41 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
You shouldn't have to reinstall, it should be pretty painless. There were
some other suggestions that were very good too, like getting a drive utility
from the HD manufacturer (hopefully its Maxtor) here is another trick if
you feel ambitious. Slave your drive to a system that has Crystal Reports,
and browse to the event logs (C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt) In
Crystal start a new report go in under MORE DATA SOURCES then browse to NT
ARCHIVED DATA SOURCES then browse to the above path. VIOLA you can pull out
all your system errors. This works on active event logs too, (actually you
can access any system on your network)
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
_____
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Katzenberger
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:27 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
Shirley,
Just so I know what I am up against. Will I need to do a complete reinstall
after I run fixboot?
Also, is this problem being created by updates writing to bad boot sectors?
Once I get the system back should I run scandisk or related utilities?
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Shirley Graver
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:04 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
If you have memory that you know is good try swapping out the memory. Also,
you can try pulling the drive and slaving it to a good system to test and
run fixdisk or some other repair. Also get a win98 boot disk to boot from
floppy and try and fix from that. Go here
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-
us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx for some repair instructions.
Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates
_____
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Katzenberger
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:58 AM
To: Vantage User Group (E-mail)
Subject: [Vantage] OT (Bad Boot Sector)
Hi group,
Sorry for the off topic post but if anybody knows the answer it will be
here!
I was having a problem with my DSL connection to the internet my and could
not fix the problem. I dumped the system and re-installed XP and the DSL
connections and all was fine.
Reregistered the OS with MicroSoft and down loaded all the latest updates.
Happy as a clam, Retired for the night. NExt day turned on the computer
and......
Blue screen of death, "Bad Boot Sector Windows is shutting down to prevent
damage. Nothing I tried Safe Mode, Windows Repair, etc. worked.
Started over. All was fine again until updates were loaded. Shut down,
start up and same thing happened.
Do I have a flakey hard drive or is something in one of the latest patches
that does not agree with XP Home edition. Yes sorry this is a home computer.
Any help is appreciated.
Wayne
Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
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(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
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SPONSORED LINKS
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(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
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