Now have boot disks but boot sequence still aborts

lurkswithin · #11 (**permalink**) 01-20-2009, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bbwatt

Hi Lurkswithin,
Thanks for your suggested alternative source for boot disks.
Unfortunately the results were very similar to previously.
I saved each of the four files to my desktop.
THen I plugged in the extranal discette for the Dell laptop which I'm using for this job.

Then clicked on the file icen for disk 1 to open and run it.

Results after clicking on file icon on dektop and then clicking on "run":
1. Message "Thanks for using AllbootDisks.com" - click OK
2. Mesage "Insert floppy disk to write" - click OK
3. Message "Current image format is not supported by the disk drive" - click OK
4. Message "Do you want to retry" - click OK
5. Previous sequence repeated.

This results sugests there is some issues with my discette drive or the formatting of the floppy disks in it.

Do you have a friend with a computer with a internal floppy drive to burn the disks for you.?

I am thinking that you are not logged in as an admin user or that you have limited user account!

bbwatt · #12 (**permalink**) 01-21-2009, 01:00 PM

Hi Lurkswithin,
As you suggested I made use of a friend's PC to create the 4 Win2k Boot disks.
I attached the external discette drive to the Sony Vaio, put in disk 1 and pressed the power switch.
When the progress bar on the Windows 200 Professional screen was about two thirds complete the blue screen appeared with the stop message 0x7B, "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE as in the original problem .
During the STARTUP the discetTe was spinning, so assume it was being used but perhaps not as a substitute for the hard disk C:.
Switched off and restarted, held down F8.
Selected Safe mode but same result.

Seems the Sony is not recoverable by the boot-discette route, perhaps because of errors on the C: drive.
Thanks for all your help.

lurkswithin · #13 (**permalink**) 01-21-2009, 05:33 PM

It actually sounds like your harddrive has crashed its Master Boot Record. It is possible to use a Knoppix Live CD and perform repairs to the MBR It is complicated and you will need to study up on how to.....

But first I would try this...pull out your harddrive and record the type and manufacturer/model...then go to the hdd manufactures website and look for the repair/installation utillity download. It should fit on a Floppy or CD either one...(follow download/installation proceedures). Boot to that utillity and have it run diagnostics and repair options for that drive! It maybe possible for the repair option (Chkdisc) to find the errors and repair the problem.

Good luck!

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Now have boot disks but boot sequence still aborts