Ciaran Johnston <cj at nologic.org> a écrit :
> > What I want is some sort of programme that will
> > execute from XP that will nuke the entire disk
> > in the hope that the MBR will be reset and that
> > it will restart using the devices set in the
> > boot sequence of the BIOS - i.e. CD first.
> The MBR is on the disk, so the BIOS has already
> decided what it will boot
> from by the time it gets to the MBR.
> If you want to eliminate the HDD as a source of the
> error, just remove it physically from the laptop
> andthen try to boot from a CD. If this doesn't
> work at least you know the fault is nothing to do
> with the HDD.
That's good thinking - I was just working along the
lines that since it appears to have been the recent
reinstall of Windows XP that has messed the thing
up in the first place, maybe getting rid of anything
bootable (even a now-defective XP) on the disk
might get the BIOS to "fallback" on the CD.
But your idea of removing the disk altogether is
the same principle, so I'll get onto that this
evening and report back. Thanks for the idea.
Rgs.
Paul...
> /Ciaran.
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