- WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED HOW TO
- WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED INSTALL
- WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED WINDOWS
** By the way if you find a nice GUI utilty that can move and modify the boot loader let me know. The world of macs is much nicer for this sort of thing but now I know next time remove all disks and don’t hook them up until your finished.
WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED WINDOWS
Lesson to be learnt – Windows can be a real pain in the *** and make life much harder than it should be. I don’t want to risk losing the boot record for the copy of XP that I have been using for about 8 months now so have just left it and backed up all my data.
WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED HOW TO
Had to put my OLD disk in so it can read the boot record and then give me the option to boot from the copy of XP on my new drive.Īsked on the forums but no one really had a clue how to fix it easily. Installed it on the new clean drive, go to boot up and no disk. The vast majority of my data is backed up on a second work/personal notebook however there is some information that I did not have recently backed up O(I know, stupidity & a bit of.
Some times is the file system of the USB and/or operative system.
WINDOWS XP BOOT DISK READ ERROR OCCURRED INSTALL
Bought a new drive for a fresh install on a new machine. It may be due to search fatigue, but in all the forums I ve read I have yet to find out an explanation for my drive issues or solution to getting Windows running. If theres more stuff than actually the files needed to make the Windows install, try to move them to some safe device/computer. I’ll try a Linux recovery disk and see what fdisk says about the partitions: maybe Microsoft’s “active” isn’t the same as “bootable”? The system reserved partition is often set as the active partition. That brings up the Vista boot selector and then XP boots off the SATA drive. You can mount the vhd in disk manager and right-click c: and choose 'Mark partition as active', and see if that helps. Asked on the forums but no one really had a clue how to fix it. Had to put my OLD disk in so it can read the boot record and then give me the option to boot from the copy of XP on my new drive. In order to boot from the XP install, I have to keep my old PATA drive, that I used to have Vista on. Bought a new drive for a fresh install on a new machine. I’ve tried copying the ntldr, etc, from a working XP drive to see if that would fix it, still no dice. I’ve tried booting my XP SP2 disk and running fixboot c: and fixmbr c:, I still get the same error. The error I get: “A disk read error has occurred. However, despite my care in trying to ensure the drive was safe from Vista, when I unplugged the Vista disk and tried to boot XP, the drive wouldn’t boot. Of course, Vista detected the XP install and offered it to me as a dual boot option. Bear in mind, I was careful to add a drive such that it came before the Windows XP drive in terms of the BIOS enumeration of disks, so that the Vista release candidate wouldn’t have any reason to touch that drive whatsoever… In November of last year I tried installing Vista to a second drive on my XP box.