PC Problem

[mattvts23]

Afternoon all,

What does this mean?

Boot leg failure - Atapi cd rom

XP wont load at all, what has my brother done?

Thanks Matt

[Leo]

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[mattvts23]

will do ta

[Leo]

wouldnt make another thread tho as this will get moved there probley, but someone will help ya

[Col468]

Afternoon all,

What does this mean?

Boot leg failure - Atapi cd rom

XP wont load at all, what has my brother done?

Thanks Matt

need more detail that that mate, where did u get it, why do u want to know what it means?
Col.

[mattvts23]

When i try to load up the pc it gets stuck and says that.

[djmartin]

try pressing F8 when your PC loads up it will take you to the main setup menu for your PC check if your CD Drives are all installed if not try and load your PC up without the cd drive connected if it loads up then its your CD drive dead and its your PC taking precaustions and not letting you load it up for it knows it may damage the PC in some way.

if you get the PC loaded up go to START/CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM

go to PC managment and see if there is a (!) over any of the items if so then there is a fault in that section.

HAVE YOU TRIED TO LOAD THE PC UP IN MS-DOS???????

[djmartin]

Boot leg failure - Atapi cd rom

oh poo dint see that haha erm that basicly means your harddrive is on its way out its the motor arm on the hard disk getting stuck by anychance do you hearda CLICK CLICK sound aswell when the PC loads up????

[mattvts23]

Cant hear anything really. You think that its the hard drive then

[MTR]

That error concerns your CD-ROM not hard drive. In the BIOS has he changed it to boot from CD instead of Hard drive?

[mattvts23]

no it boots from floopy i think

[MTR]

The boot record for windows in on your first hard drive (normally c: ) :)
Have a quick check in the bios to see if it's changed. If it thinks it's on a floopy or cd then obviously when it looks on either of those it will find nothing and stop.

[mattvts23]

So if i change to first boot HD and second boot leave it blank

[MTR]

So if i change to first boot HD and second boot leave it blank

exactly. :y:

[mattvts23]

will give it a go thanks

[DarylVTR]

check the CD-ROM is ok in the BIOS (DEL or F1 when starting up) .... Nothing to do with the HDD.... If it appears ok in the BIOS make sure all removable media sucvh as photo memory cards, USB sticks etc are removed when booting. If that still fails remove the CD-rom and see if it boots, if it does its a faulty drive

[mattvts23]

Right the drive works ok as a slave in my pc. So I formatted in windows and choose NTFS. I then put it back in my brothers pc. But when I try to re-install windows, it goes into setup starts copying files then says it will restart where setup will continue. It then says fix boot error press ctrl+alt+del.

Any ideas

Thanks Matt

[MTR]

Right the drive works ok as a slave in my pc. So I formatted in windows and choose NTFS. I then put it back in my brothers pc. But when I try to re-install windows, it goes into setup starts copying files then says it will restart where setup will continue. It then says fix boot error press ctrl+alt+del.

Any ideas

Thanks Matt


A few options here. Could be a dirty Windows disk, a Power supply problem or, and more likely, is a memory or hard disk failure.
If Windows doesn't install it's usually a hard-drive which is just about to die or a bad stick of memory in the PC. Finding the cause can take a while i'm afraid.
(Did you set it back to Master when you put it in the other computer?)

[mattvts23]

Yes, im using it now as a slave..what about if i formatted to fat32 instead of ntsf?