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One fine day you start your PC and get messages that say,"Book Disk failure". The problem is that the hard disk is detected but the OS does not load. The system may get stuck in the second screen during the booting process or the OS might display an error message and refuse to load. Such situations can be trouble some as they leave you with very few troubleshooting options

Laptop Battery One of the common problems in dual boot systems is of the boot loader getting corrupted. For example, you have a system running Windows XP and Linux using Lila as boot loader. If Lila gets corrupted, you can not boot into either OS.When this happens, you have to boot into the system using some other media, such as a boot floppy or the Windows Dafter booting go to the command prompt, type 'fdisk/mbr' and press [Enter]. Note that if you use Windows 2000 or XP, boot into the recovery console and give the command 'fixmbr' to clear the MBR. Unfortunately, after you restart, it will boot to Windows directly, without any option of booting into Linux. You will have to restore LiLo again from your Linux CD, or reinstall boot loaders such as XOSL from Windows.

1. Make sure you have a PC that can handle Windows Home Server. Hardware requirements are minimal — almost any PC built in the past five years will suffice, but you can't install WHS on a laptop computer, and you must have a functioning LAN connection. Your newly anointed server must have a DVD drive, and the computer must be told to boot from that drive. A USB DVD drive is okay, but only if your computer can be cajoled into booting from it.

Thinkpad If your problem persists, or if you never used a boot loader, than boot into the system from a boot floppy or the Windows CD.Windows 2000 and XP users should boot into the recovery console. Go to the command prompt and give the command fdisfk/mbr'and then give the command 'sys C'. This clears the MBR, and makes the bootable partition C, Windows 2000 and XP users should give the command 'fixmbr' and' fixboot' C: to do the same. Then restart the system to boot into the OS.

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Microsoft If you still have trouble, you might have a virus on your PC's boot sector .It is difficult to confirm an infection without a virus scan. Thesymptoms of an infections-applications slowing down or many unrecognized files appearing in the system-should give you a clue. For example Windows 98 and Me users might see a message during boot up that says," No valid FAT on boot drive" this is caused due to a boot sector virus called stoned Monk. Even reinstalling Windows might give you an error message that says, "Your computer already has an operating system installed". Then best solution is to connect the hard disk to another system, and scan with an anti virus tool. You can also create a rescue disk for the anti virus tool and scan the system using it.

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Laptop Computers If nothing mentioned above seems to work. Then you have a serious problem at hand. Connect it to some other system and try to access the data if you can, then your boot record is damaged. Otherwise the service center beckons.

If you have a severe problem with your server, you can log on to the 1&1 Control Panel and access a Rescue Image via the network, which is automatically loaded into the server’s memory and can be accessed via the Internet. When your server has been repaired, you can change the boot mode of the network interface card with one mouse click, and boot your server using the regular boot mode.

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