booting ONLY from CD?

[Loveless]

I turn on my computer, no boot, it is asking for system disk, I went to bios and made sure my HD was set to boot, anyways, I have to pop a win2k cd (i AM using win2k) and it would allow me to boot into windows, that is the ONLY way I can use win2k. what is wrong? i did a clean install off of the CD. does ntfs need to be set "active?" if so. how do I do that

[shadow]

NTFS is the file system, how the HDD is formatted, which you would've chosen upon install. Sounds like some of the boot files are bad, try booting from the cd and choosing the repair option if it gives you one.

[Loveless]

nah, it happened after I format c: /s a fat32 on the same drive, but I deleted it and repartitioned it as one parition only, however it dont work ever since that *deleted*


Please watch your choice of words....I have warned you several times already.

Mntsnow

[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 03-30-2001).]

[jad1097]

Sounds like you overwrote the MBR. Do you have another OS on there?

[Mntsnow]

With you saying you deleted and formated the C: drive but still have Win2K on it that means you blew away your boot files that Win2K needed. Just toss the win2k cd in and tell it to repair your installation and all should be fine.

[Loveless]

well, I DID a clean install again after I blew the fat32, when I say clean install I also repartrition, so I would expect win2k to write to my boot sector but for some reason, its not...

[DanU]

I also think the MBR was somehow corrupted. Have you tried an "fdisk /mbr"?