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Please Help....Computer Crashed and now I can't load an Operating System!

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Don Wilson - 10 Oct 2003 20:18 GMT
I was using Norton Ghost 2003 to load an image of my hard drive onto my
notebook computer that I made previously and the computer crashed during the
image loading process. Now all I get is a blue screen that says:

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer......etc. "

I am stuck now, because I can't even load my Windows XP disk as my notebook
computer has no floppy drive in order to load the setup disks and make
partitions. I thought of buying a usb external floppy drive to be able to do
this, but I dont' think that will work either as an OS like Windows is
needed in order for the external floppy to be detected...so I thought
anyway.

Thank you in advance for posting help.

Don Wilson
Stephen Harris - 11 Oct 2003 11:57 GMT
> I was using Norton Ghost 2003 to load an image of my hard drive onto my
> notebook computer that I made previously and the computer crashed during the
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> Don Wilson

Your bios may support booting from the cdrom drive.
http://www.putergeek.com/downloads/dos_6_22_boot_disk.exe

If you can obtain access to cd-burner you can make the cd
bootable using the template generated by the above file.

Usually, upgrading the bios (flashing) is done by floppy.
But you can do it by cdrom:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#require (not thoroughly tested)

"Some people ask me if it is possible to create a bootable
CD-Rom to update/flash their BIOS, on a system that has
no floppy disk drive. I realize that some new PC's nowadays
also don't have a floppy drive so this problem may affect
more people in future... This is probably is easiest bootable
CD-Rom I've ever built."

Regards,
Stephen
 
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