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On boot it says, "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup
If my Windows 2000 disk is in the CD-ROM drive, it will boot up fine, but if it is not I get the message "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup" Can someone point me in the right direction?
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yes this is likely a bios problem - make sure you can boot from the HD
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The BIOS recognizes that I have a 20Gb hard drive. Like I said, as long as the 2000 disk is in the CD-ROM i can get into my OS just fine so I know the hard drive has not failed.
do you just have the one 20 GB disk on the system so that is the disk that the OS is on?
sounds like your boot.ini file is messed up. this would cause windows to look in the wrong place for the OS do you know how to check or edit it?
sounds like your boot.ini file is messed up. this would cause windows to look in the wrong place for the OS do you know how to check or edit it?
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Yes, this is the only hard drive on the laptop. I checked the boot.ini file and it looks ok.
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Is it ok to copy the boot.ini file from a different Windows 2000 machine and replace it with the current boot.ini file and just change the name of the current boot.ini file?
only if the OS is on the same disk number and same part partition number.. most are like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)par
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)par
yes as long as it has a similar configuration
load the bios defaults.
use the recovery console to get to the prompt and run the bootcfg/rebulid
use the recovery console to get to the prompt and run the bootcfg/rebulid
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I compared the boot.ini file with the file from another machine and they are exactly the same so I don't think this is the issue. Any other ideas?
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Thanks! It ended up being my BIOS. Although the Hard Drive was listed in the boot order, for some reason it was not enabled, so that did it. Thanks to all!!!!