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Boot problem
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Posted by: miked69_21
I currently have a micron with an ata raid setup. My system has been running fine for a while until recently when I went to turn it on and windows would not boot up. It boots the bios and everything else fien but then the screen shows a cursor and does not move. The system is not locked cause the keybaord works. I used the windows retore disc to try to reinstall windows but that did not help. I did notice that if I have the restore cd in the drive when I boot windows does boot up fine. What could cause this?
Posted by: Antti2004
I presume that you mean that POST is OK, but the windows OS start isn't?
In that case it would looks like the win boot file or win ini file is damaged for some reason. Do you have Win boot disk and try to kick start the OS with it.
If you can access the internet via your friends PC goto www.microsoft.com their knowledge database and download several pages long instruction how to repair win boot and win ini files.
If you gan get into DOS then you could investigate those files, I very (very) old Norton Comander to investigate files on DOS, but if you are not comfortable with the idea of working on DOS then use the Microsofts instructions.
If nothing works then your quickest repair is to run FDISK, format c:/s and reinstall the OS again, with all the relevat motherboard drivers (Chipset), but you will lose your old data.
Again (I cannot resist, the temtation, it is too strong), if you had Knoppix Linux and your CD Rom bootable (in Intel based system) you could retrive/backup and investigate important files. 
Hope you get your system running quickly again.
Posted by: TotalRecall
It sounds like your master boot record is corrupt. Try typing "fdisk /mbr" from a command prompt. This should restore your MBR.
If you're dual booting with something like LILO, then you would need to use a boot disk to access a Linux shell to rerun lilo (or grub-install /dev/hdX, I believe).
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