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we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Failed to successfully scan disks for Windows installations... Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by BERRY2006, Oct 16, 2008. Thread Status: Not open for bootcfg rebuild failed further replies. Advertisement BERRY2006 Thread Starter Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Messages: 7 I reloaded my
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Windows XP Pro operating system about 8 months ago because I wanted a clean install (without all the factory add-ons) and I also didn't want the Media Direct on my computer either...so when I reloaded my operating system with Dell's help, I didn't install Media Direct - this way I had more of my Hard Drive available. When I went to start my laptop, I mistakenly hit the Media Direct button instead of the power button, and I got an "NTLDR is missing error", but I called Dell and we apparently fixed that issue, but my operating system still doesnt load. Instead, when I get to the Dell screen, my computer keeps restarting, endlessly, until I hit the power button to shut it down. As the computer keeps restarting, at the very top left of my screen, almost to quickly to see, there is an error message that says "Invalid BOOT.INI file...Booting from C:\windows\". I am pretty sure when I reloaded my operating system I put it in Drive: D. I did "bootcfg /list and bootcfg /rebuild and then I get the error: Failed to succesfully scan disks for Windows installations... I've run chdsk /r two times and both times it says it fixed one or more errors, but I still cannot complete bootcfg /rebuild. I cannot start in safe mode or last known good configuration. Can someone kindly help me with this? BERRY2006, Oct 16, 2008 #1 Sponsor ekim68 Mike Joined: Jul 8, 2003 Messages: 49,221 If you have the CD of the OS, have you tried getting into the repair console? Start it up and choose R as the option when you get to it...When you get to a DOS screen with a C: prompt, type in 'fixmbr', without the quotes. And, after that, type in 'fixboot', without the quotes..It should take you back to your boot options on the install. Restart the computer and see if this helps.. ekim68, Oct 16, 2008 #2 BERRY2006 Thread Starter Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Messages: 7 thank you for the reply ekim68. My xp pro os is loaded onto the D drive though. i already tried the repair console and did fixboot - no luck -
Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Windows XP>How to manually modify boot.ini flie> Solved How to manually modify boot.ini flie Tags: Boot Hard Drives Recovery Console Windows XP Last response: 13 August 2010 18:46 in Windows XP Share PratyushPatel 9 August 2010 21:19:49 few days back i got "missing or corrupt hal.dll file" error, so i tried to copy that file from recovery console but that didn't solve the problem, so i tried to reconfigure boot.ini file. so did "del c:\boot.ini" and than "bootcfg rebuild", but it gave me some "Failed to successfully scan disks for Windows installations" so could not proceed further from that step.. most of the commands of bootcfg i.e. add, scan, rebuild etc. are giving the same error.. so what i did is, https://forums.techguy.org/threads/failed-to-successfully-scan-disks-for-windows-installations.759895/ installed windows xp on another drive of another hard disk (i have 2 internal hard disks), which is working so what i now have is, non working windows xp on :e of one hard disk (i don't know how it changed from :c to :e) and working windows xp on :h of another hard disk now when i start recovery console it shows 2 windows installations, one on :e and other on :h, but when i do "bootcfg scan" it shows just one http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/250045-45-manually-modify-boot-flie bootable file i.e. of :h so is there any way, that i can do to make my windows on :e recognizable during start up, like by adding some information to boot.ini file of :h or by adding new boot.ini in :e.... please help me with this, i have lot many things installed and don't want to lose them..... thanks in advance More about : manually modify boot ini flie aford10 9 August 2010 21:42:00 I think you should start by performing a repair install on the original C drive (now e). Here's a helpful guide. http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instx... Once that completes, then you may need to rebuild the boot.ini file. m 0 l PratyushPatel 10 August 2010 03:14:45 thanks for the suggestion, i will give it a try. m 0 l Related resources "Invalid BOOT.INI file" / How to write manually my boot.in.. - Forum Modify the boot.ini file ? - Forum How good is this PC and should I buy the 1080 for an extra $400 and Can I modify this PC - Forum How to manually unthrottle a GPU? - Forum How to overclock manually without risk - Forum Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer aford10 10 August 2010 03:25:15 You're welcome. Let me know how it goes. m 0 l PratyushPatel 11 August 2010 01:14:31 aford10 said:You're welcome. Let me know how it goes. ok, i tried to repair as you said, but when i did repair, it showed me just 1 windows installa
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