Thanks, that's a useful thought. I did leave the whole thing for an hour while the BIOS battery was out, though, and I'd imagine that it would...
Thanks for the reply - yes, I did try both of those. I reset the BIOS at different times both from within the screens and by taking out the...
Just to say that the last time I looked at the BIOS the disk had "moved" to be Primary Master! I didn't do that. Least, I don't think so... P
HI JonyJoe81, I do think it is a hardware problem. I've been getting failures and hangs booting purely from CD (both UBCD and Win2K), although...
I remember thinking a computer support role would be one of gentle advice and tinkering. I've had two weeks in which emergencies have grown in...
Thanks, Brian. I thought of that - I have only the one HDD in the machine, plus a CD drive to boot from CD. It's certainly recognising the CDs...
One bit of light in this evening's gloom is that three different people have offered intelligent and constructive suggestions in an effort to help...
Thanks - I didn't know that partition numbering started at 1; I'm glad to have that confirmed. I think I can rule out data corruption as the...
No, that didn't do it. By the way, you can't edit boot.ini from the Recovery Console: I had to load UBCD. I added a further line referring to...
Thanks, that's a nice little utility. It's reporting that the system partition is indeed the C: drive. However, it's also telling me that it's...
I've checked and the two CDs are identical, so it must have been 4940. P
Thanks for the reply! Yes, I believe I have all data safely on my own PC now - and the image has been checked for consistency. Can't boot the PC...
I'd really appreciate some ideas on this one! Windows 2000 is hanging after completing the "Starting Windows" screen:...
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