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External Hard Drive used for System Backup.
I think so long as you don't need to boot with a missing partion (depending on what's on it, as you say). It'll be nice when SP can restore to smaller size partitions (since diskpart.exe won't let me expand sysvol). This will hopefully leave me with C: approx. 3Gb of free space, and page file living on the same

XP Boot Disks?? Whats the big secret??
I can boot Knoppix from CD and view all the folders and files on my disk, so I've backed up all my data. What I want to be able to do is boot and restore my system. Well if your hard disk won't boot and your Windows disk won't boot... You may need a replacement Vista disk. With that, you will hopefully be able to

Windows won't start at all!!!
OscarVogel oscarvo...@sbcglobal.net microsoft public windows server sbs No, I have no idea what a barppe boot disk w/ Acronis is. I've just finished built a new PC (Nobody has said that WON'T work.). If that doesn't work, I'm going to install a fresh version of SBS onto the new PC w/ new HD and go from there.

Os/2 Warp 4.0 Utility Disks won't boot
Another repair install from CD with ERD floppy still fails, "disk corrupt". Status now is that I've returned all disks to their original positions, original source disk again master, and I'm back to where I was yesterday, won't boot beyond first graphical progress bar screen. Help? Del.

"Already and operating system" message but won't start up
That'd zorch the last 75 M of the disk, and any softRAID superblock would die. I tried zeroing the superblocks but that gave problems because mdadm won't touch a running RAID volume, which /dev/hdc is part of. I thought you said you'd stopped it with --stop. I uninstalled mdadm (with --purge) then removed

DMBBS V5.3 Frustrations
Nor do attempts to access the recovery console via my set of boot floppies work; after inserting disk 2, the following error message displays: "File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. Error code is 7. Setup cannot continue." I've done all I know to do & wanted to pick the collective brain before giving up & taking

My disk is getting corrupt all the time
I have a problem in that I can't boot my system from a set of utility disks made using the Warp 'Make Utility Disks' utility. <SNIP> Traci, I had nothing but problems using the "Make Utility Disks" utility. There is a utility that's EWS called, I believe, bootos2 that will create diskettes for a bootable OS/2

Windows 95 Won't Start
The 8600 will boot from its original System 7.6 CD and read ZIP drives, and Apple System Profiler shows the internal HD as still there on SCSI port 0, but it won't spin up. Any ideas on how to kick start it? (I've trying powering the machine on and off multiple times.) This sounds like the notorious 'stiction'

DiskSuite - puzzling issue
Created the new startup disks and the problem just won't go away. Even went to www.bootdisk.com and downloaded a boot disk. Still have the same problem, I get a DOS Prompt that says: "C>Type the name of the command interpreter (eg, C:\Windows\Command.com)." There has got to be something I am doing wrong.

G5 freezes on login, CD's won't boot it.
Here it goes: I think these problems are related but I'm not sure: G5 freezes at login, CD's won't boot it. I just got my iBook fixed so now my G5 decided to give However, I can't get the computer to boot with it. Neither will it boot with DiskGenius and the OS X 10.4 disks. I tried a different keyboard before

Startup screen then dos prompt and windows won't start?
When I boot up my computer, I see the Compaq logo, and the flashing cursor in the upper right hand corner, but then Windows won't start. Instead, I get the error message that indicates there is a diskette in my A: drive, something like, "Invlaid system disk or disk error." The only thing is, there's no diskette in

Windows won't start due to disk problem:
And it won't go into safemode either.....I have tried that 8 times.What do I do? Please help me. -Angela Angela, It could be that the hard disk drive has packed in, or has had its Master Boot Record or files corrupted or deleted. If you don't have a boot disk for your system, use the computer you posted here with

Clean install of Win2000Pro Won't boot to windows,safe mode works
Actually, I just realized you are probably talking about Vista x64 and that won't install from an XP desktop. Sorry about that. .... Drive 1 = XP OS ( 2 partitiions) Drive 2 - XP Data and Apps ( 2 partitions) Drive 3 = Vista ( 2 partitions) Currently, I have my hard disk boot order in bios, set for drive 1 first,

Things Operators Used to Do
Does anybody know if the setup disks that you can download from microsoft can be used in place of the original XP install disk? I misplaced my XP CD, but I would like to try the floppy boot disks but I thought I wouldn't waste my time if somebody already knows that this won't work. Thanks, Alex.

Vista won't boot up! Please read! HELP!
An E-disc I'm hoping to keep as a final C:-disc, if all goes well. Question 1: Can I boot of a logical volume with a system disc (E:) in it? Question 2: Deleting the C: and D:-discs (primary partitions) won't XPP MBR still 'remember' the then deleted C: and D:-disc, keeping me stuck on aE: assigned-system disc?

Disaster. Help? won't boot
What about the thing where you can make an install disc with all the updates already on it (probably multiple discs) and it's also automated? Sometimes Drive Image won't work on a Dell. Sometimes Ghost also won't work on some newer Dells. Possibly because of how they partition their drives.

Norton Utilities 5.0 won't start from CD
Then he told you how to make setup disks IF you can't boot from CD. You've told us about your problems with making and using the setup floppies, but you've never told us that your computer will not boot from CD. If you CAN'T boot from CD-ROM, please say so in your next post so that I won't keep hitting you on the

W2K SP4 dual boot problems
I then used the startup disk to see that it worked...it did. The startup disk takes a couple of minutes to boot and then the window looks exactly like the one I than they might otherwise do, knowing that the time to complete the current disk-cloning process won't be particularly onerous and/or time-consuming.

Reinstall Windows
Jim Huff Edinborg Productions edinb...@shentel.net Esanbocks wrote in article <334F1C86.5...@bucky.win.bright.net>... I have three WIN NT 4.0 setup disks, but they won't boot. I tried creating the disk using the winnt utility on the CD. They won't boot. I tried doing a floppyless instalation. The Hard drive won't

slackware created boot disks won't work
To check for this possibility, create a "clean boot" floppy disk that contains only the files necessary to start your computer and Windows. Insert this disk in drive A, and then restart your computer. If Windows still won't start, try the following guidelines: * Type WIN /B to start Windows. This creates a file,