boot prob

[skipdawg95]

I have an interesting boot prob. I have a newly formatted hard drive and had a problem with my boot up disk reading my cd-rom. Apperently the drivers on the disk didn't work. I asked a friend what I should do and he told me to go into my BIOS and make a few changes. Well, I did so and that didn't fix the prob. He then told me to enable fail-safe settings. I did that. Then when I restarted my computer it would not complete the boot up. It stops at "verifying DMI pool data..." It's as if my floppy drive isn't being read. I've changed all of my BIOS settings to their defaults and nothing. I have no idea what to do next or even a clue as to what's wrong. Please help!!!!

[MangMang]

dude, i had this same problem with my pc. so i feel your pain.

you didnt by any chance use a partitioning program other than fdisk did you? what i did to fix it was i decided to do a whole new install. i deleted the partitions and started over. apparently "partitionmagic" mucked up with my drive.

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Mark Burnett is the Devil...thank goodness.

[Randy_tx]

Post us the OS you are using,the type computer, the brand of CD rom (if you know it) and see if you can get a different boot up disk to try.

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"As hard as a rock & dumb as a brick"...Windows CEMeNT

[WarHog]

1) I you have a boot disk. Although you have said you can't boot from A: drive, retry to see if you can get it to boot (the verifying pool data is the last step brfore the reboot). If you are sucessfull, type the following at the A: prompt.

sys c:

Reboot normally and see if that worked.

2) If you can't boot from floppy or the above didn't work. Use BIOS 'Advanced CMOS' setup and disable internal and external (if both are available options) cpu cache. Reboot.

If that works, reboot and set them back to enabled and reboot again.


If it doesn't reboot now, redo step 2 but before restoring the cache setting perform step 1.


[This message has been edited by WarHog (edited 03-19-2001).]