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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: fakru on May 14, 2013, 04:49:58 AM

Title: boot media test failure
Post by: fakru on May 14, 2013, 04:49:58 AM

boot media test failure

Title: Re: boot media test failure
Post by: patio on May 14, 2013, 06:03:40 AM

I'll go out on a limb here and guess we're gonna need alot more info...

Title: Re: boot media test failure
Post by: Geek-9pm on May 14, 2013, 07:53:10 AM

Quote from: patio on May 14, 2013, 06:03:40 AM

I'll go out on a limb here and guess we're gonna need alot more info...

Well, he says  he is a beginner e d has XP.
Is that a paradox?
That message comes from  a hard drive that does not do the boot  sequence.
The OP may wish to  read this. He must have the XP CD to get to the recovery console.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000627.htm
Odd, but I have had to do that a number of times. Strange. Most often I had to use the two commands
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT

Title: Re: boot media test failure
Post by: patio on May 14, 2013, 08:25:47 AM

Being a beginner is fine...we've all been there.
Posting a 4 word question and expecting people to figure things out and reply is not.

Title: Re: boot media test failure
Post by: Geek-9pm on May 14, 2013, 08:38:52 AM

Quote from: patio on May 14, 2013, 08:25:47 AM

Being a beginner is fine...we've all been there.
Posting a 4 word question and expecting people to figure things out and reply is not.

Right.
The OP could have said:
A. It is a laptop, not a desktop.
B. He was trying to boot from USB. *
C. It is not his computer.

On something to narrow down the possibilities.

* Ffor testing purpose, a USB flash can be used to boot a computer when the hard drive does not work right.

How to create a bootable Windows USB drive. - Computer Hope (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001366.htm)