Cannot find NTLDR, press any key to continue.

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zeitghost replied

4 April 2011, 11:22
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

If it can wait until Saturday I can fix for £15

Bargain.
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zeitghost replied

4 April 2011, 11:22
Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post

I've certainly got that particular tee shirt.

Not helped by the drive being mounted an inch and a half behind the front panel so that you can't actually see that there's a disk in the drive.

Ancient Dell thing, so clever & neat & yet so functionally redundant.
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suityou01 replied

4 April 2011, 11:09
If it can wait until Saturday I can fix for £15
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TykeMerc replied

4 April 2011, 11:01
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

I found it once I'd located the emergency boot disk at the bottom of the desk drawer.

And it wouldn't fit into the drive.

I've certainly got that particular tee shirt.
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zeitghost replied

4 April 2011, 10:54
I've just remembered I intended to change that drive today.

For one I rescued out of a scrap pc.

I wonder if that one will work any better.
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2BIT replied

1 April 2011, 11:53
Originally posted by Sysman View Post

You couldn't make this stuff up.

sadly I can believe anything having used some of the new windows O/S's
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zeitghost replied

1 April 2011, 11:02
Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post

You still have a working floppy drive? I'm not even sure that I still have a CD drive.

Several.

We're up to date here I'll have you know.

And they're not 8" or 5.25" either. <preen>
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Sysman replied

1 April 2011, 10:55
Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post

I did the same the other week - not even getting as far as the BIOS screen.

Then I remembered that I was charging my phone from the USB socket, and it was trying to boot from there.

I've got a better one. When you specify an external USB drive as a backup device to Windows Server 2008 it whips its drive letter away and hides the disk from Explorer.

Guess what happens when you release that disk from the backup system?

It comes back as A:

And if you have 2 such USB drives allocated for backup, and you cancel backups completely, they come back as A: and B:

You couldn't make this stuff up.
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PRC1964 replied

1 April 2011, 10:47
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

Before panicking like a headless parrot, take the floppy diskette out of the floppy drive, you feckwhit.

You still have a working floppy drive? I'm not even sure that I still have a CD drive.
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TheFaQQer replied

1 April 2011, 10:36
I did the same the other week - not even getting as far as the BIOS screen.

Then I remembered that I was charging my phone from the USB socket, and it was trying to boot from there.
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zeitghost replied

1 April 2011, 10:34
I found it once I'd located the emergency boot disk at the bottom of the desk drawer.

And it wouldn't fit into the drive.
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Platypus replied

1 April 2011, 10:32
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

Before panicking like a headless parrot, take the floppy diskette out of the floppy drive, you feckwhit.

Yes I remember that one, was going to suggest the solution if you hadn't found it!
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zeitghost started a topic Cannot find NTLDR, press any key to continue.

1 April 2011, 10:31
Cannot find NTLDR, press any key to continue.

Before panicking like a headless parrot, take the floppy diskette out of the floppy drive, you feckwhit.
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