windows not booting

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » June 10th, 2006, 4:53 pm

Ive got neighbor with computer that starts up and just hangs on screen where it says searching for boot record from IDE ok..
searching for boot record from CD-ROM...etc and it just wont go on.

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » June 10th, 2006, 6:37 pm

Normally is it OK's the IDE, it means it found it and should start (or attempt) a Windows boot, if it moves to CD-ROM afterwards, it mean's there's a problem with reading the boot sector.

- It could be a boot sector corruption, which a Windows repair installation should fix it
- Could be hardware related, normally a hard drive failure. In that case, the defective hardware would need to get replaced.

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » June 10th, 2006, 10:47 pm

actually it ok's IDE I think.

JHetfield · Post by **JHetfield** » June 28th, 2006, 4:14 pm

did you get this cleared up...if not whats the win version?