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    Asus G1 problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sitoncouch, Jun 15, 2007.

  1. sitoncouch

    sitoncouch Newbie

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    A few days ago I tried to switch from vista to xp only, I put xp on the c drive but that's where it was all wrong I am guessing:

    I turn on the computer it can go into bios but will not boot any os it has black blank screen with _ .

    It shows in bios that my hard drive is detected but beyond bios my computer is dead.

    When I use recovery disk it has three options repartition? 1, 2, or whole hard drive either way I do it the outcome is the same it'll say insert drivers disk which I then do but after all drivers are loaded it'll go back to the black screen and say:
    CDBOOT: couldn't find NTLDR
     
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    sitoncouch Newbie

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    maunakea Notebook Consultant

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    Call the reseller from whom you bought the G1S. A good reseller will help you. Sounds like more than a corrupted MBR or partition table.
     
    maunakea, Jun 15, 2007
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    sitoncouch Newbie

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    *Solved*

    This problem downed my notebook for a good week, though drastic it solved the problem.

    Solution:

    I bought a new hard drive, used the system restore cd and driver cd and good as new.

    The problem with the computer was the mbr (master boot record) must have been corrupted from the poorly planned dual boot xp and vista. Well, it has costed me time and money but once I make a backup dvd from hard drive image I'll restore failed hard drive and use the new one as an external.

    cdboot: couldn't find ntldr vista xp dual boot hard drive won't boot
     
    sitoncouch, Jun 15, 2007
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