Hi,
I’ve just downloaded EasyBCD 2.2 Community Edition, it was kindly shown to me on a forum. It looks really neat, but I’m getting confused and would be very grateful for someone to hold my hand while I wriggle around in binary chaos…
I’m busy trying to sort out a notebook that crashes in a loop as soon as XP starts (blue screen for 0.2 seconds with something written on it - reboot, ditto…)
The hdd isn’t dead, I want to format and reinstall XP on it. The notebook has no cd drive
Using disk part, I’ve cleaned, created the primary partition, activated, formatted (fat32), and assigned a letter to a usb stick
Using Winrar, I’ve extracted an ISO containing a complete version of XP SP3 onto the usb stick
I’ve modified the boot sequence in the notebook’s bios (the usb stick is recognized and displayed in the bios).
But when I boot the following message appears: remove the disk. Press any key to reboot.
That’s when a helping hand explained that the usb stick needs to be bootable, and another helping hand pointed to EasyBCD.
So far, I’ve followed the steps detailed on your support page ‘Creating a Bootable USB Drive’
I’ve selected the partition representing the USB stick and pressed the “Install BCD” button.
I’ve selected “Yes” but haven’t added any entries to the boot menu, mainly because I haven’t the foggiest of what needs adding…
I naively thought that it would work but nope, wishful thinking :]
If I boot with the usb stick I now get the following message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
File: \boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: The Windows boot configuration Data file does not contain a valid OS entry
Any assistance will be highly appreciated
Thanks,
Al
I’ve just downloaded EasyBCD 2.2 Community Edition, it was kindly shown to me on a forum. It looks really neat, but I’m getting confused and would be very grateful for someone to hold my hand while I wriggle around in binary chaos…
I’m busy trying to sort out a notebook that crashes in a loop as soon as XP starts (blue screen for 0.2 seconds with something written on it - reboot, ditto…)
The hdd isn’t dead, I want to format and reinstall XP on it. The notebook has no cd drive
Using disk part, I’ve cleaned, created the primary partition, activated, formatted (fat32), and assigned a letter to a usb stick
Using Winrar, I’ve extracted an ISO containing a complete version of XP SP3 onto the usb stick
I’ve modified the boot sequence in the notebook’s bios (the usb stick is recognized and displayed in the bios).
But when I boot the following message appears: remove the disk. Press any key to reboot.
That’s when a helping hand explained that the usb stick needs to be bootable, and another helping hand pointed to EasyBCD.
So far, I’ve followed the steps detailed on your support page ‘Creating a Bootable USB Drive’
I’ve selected the partition representing the USB stick and pressed the “Install BCD” button.
I’ve selected “Yes” but haven’t added any entries to the boot menu, mainly because I haven’t the foggiest of what needs adding…
I naively thought that it would work but nope, wishful thinking :]
If I boot with the usb stick I now get the following message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
- Insert your windows install disc and restart your computer
- Choose your language settings, and then click “next”
- Click “repair your computer”
File: \boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: The Windows boot configuration Data file does not contain a valid OS entry
Any assistance will be highly appreciated
Thanks,
Al