Help!!!! Don't know what to do.

[Dean66]

I decided to use Norton's Ghost 2003. I went to create a backup image file to my CD burner. I followed all the steps of the application and when I finished it told me to restart my computer.


Well, now once it posts, it says "Starting PC Dos". It just sits there. I can't get back to windows. I've got stuff I need so a reformat is not desirable at all. I've tried resetting it many times and it always brings up that message.

Anybody know what to do?

 

[Dean66]

No answers?????

 

[TheMajor]

boot with yer XP cd and press "R" for repair...i'm not sure how it works exactly because my PC never craches

you can try commands like fixboot, fixmbr, fdisk /mbr

 

[U-Toast]

try a system restore, or maybe resetting ur cmos, look at mobo instructions

 

[Dean66]

I tried that already. It puts me right back into DOS. I'm not really sure what to do.

 

[TheMajor]

do you have the XP cd?

 

[Dean66]

Yeah, I just know very little about DOS. I actually made a boot disk that has Ghost.exe on it, and when I restart my comp with the disk in, it eventually opens up ghost program in Dos. However, nothing seems to work, and when I say "Quit", it bring me back to

A:\GHOST>

I was able to get it to

A:\>

At this point, I'm stuck.

 

[U-Toast]

put in ur win xp cd, and when it asks u what to do, choose repair current wiondows installation.

 

[TheMajor]

dont forget to set yer BIOS to boot from "CD-Rom"

 

[Dean66]

I did that, now when hit R for repair it tells me to choose the installation that I would like to log onto. It only lists this one:

1: I:\WINDOWS


The weird thing is my hardrive is C and D. Why is it showing as I???

When I hit enter I get,

I:\WINDOWS>

Where do I go from here??