Boot record problem..

[flyingmonkey]

So my machine crashes really bad. I had to reboot. I had it running for a week and a half without a problem until last night when all of my programs stopped responding. Anyway.. I reboot, and once that table scrolls past, I get this message:



<< Searching for Boot Record from floppy..not found
Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..ok

L >>



After this message is displayed, I can't get any further - and this message comes up every time. I ran scandisk, checked my bios settings, nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm running W2k on C and WXP on D. Luckily, for the first time ever, a few weeks ago I made a boot disk, so I AM able to get past the above error .. of course, with a floppy.

Any ideas on what's causing this?

 

[TOraptor]

in google type "bootdisk bootcamp" and use the help that you can find there.

looks like some initialization files are corrupt since it says the boot record is OK.

if replacing files does not help then maybe the hard drive mbr is corrupt or there may be a boot sector virussssssss... do u have the virus detect feature in the bios. try enabling that and looking if the bios detect any error.

I had this kind of an error once in in NT when i had to boot up with floppy always.. that was because of ntdlr or some init file had gor corrupted. and once in win 98 when the config.sys file got corrupt but thats not an issue here.

good luck

 

[flyingmonkey]

uh.. I know how to make a boot disk. I HAVE a boot disk, that's not my problem. Problem is, my system is looking for the boot records off the floppy first (I Think?) And it can't find them (when there's no floppy in the drive) when it checks IDE-0, which is obviously my hard drive, it hangs. Why? :\