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You probably have the boot sequence set up to include the hard disk and floppy drive. &nbsp;When your pc crashed, you probably lost the ability to boot from your hard disk, so it's trying to boot from the next device.
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You probably have the boot sequence set up to include the hard disk and floppy drive.  When your pc crashed, you probably lost the ability to boot from your hard disk, so it's trying to boot from the next device.

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From your link, fixboot didn't work, correct?
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From your link, fixboot didn't work, correct?

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Repair<br />
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341</a><br />
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Repair
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341 [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341]

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Most likely, after computer crash, hard disk boot files were damaged. So if you checked boot sequence from BIOS and you're sure, that HDD is IN boot list, then you need to take Windows XP installation disk, boot from it, choose Recovery Console, and the try fixmbr, maybe even chkdsk /r - it may be, that some HDD sectors went bad during that crash. It should work - worked for me.
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Most likely, after computer crash, hard disk boot files were damaged. So if you checked boot sequence from BIOS and you're sure, that HDD is IN boot list, then you need to take Windows XP installation disk, boot from it, choose Recovery Console, and the try fixmbr, maybe even chkdsk /r - it may be, that some HDD sectors went bad during that crash. It should work - worked for me.

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Fixboot may work; it depends on what happened to the drive. &nbsp;If your partition table got clobbered, it will take more work.
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Fixboot may work; it depends on what happened to the drive.  If your partition table got clobbered, it will take more work.

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Hello,<br />
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My pc crashed and now when I try to boot I get an error - Invalid Boot Diskette, Insert Boot diskette in A:<br />
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There is no floppy in the drive.<br />
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Thanks
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Hello,

My pc crashed and now when I try to boot I get an error - Invalid Boot Diskette, Insert Boot diskette in A:

There is no floppy in the drive.

Thanks

Invalid Boot Diskette Error

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.