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Offline grt

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Boot Error
« on: August 08, 2004, 23:34 »
When I boot up , before Windows even kicks in I get the following error message :

Err 5: Error finding VFLOPPY>SYS
Err 8: Fake Floppy driver not found
Press any key to boot active partition

Press any key and it boots fine .

A Google search says it is something to do with Powerquest and there are lots of links but they all now go to the Symantech ? front page and I cannot find the way to overcome this without reinstalling windows .

Can any one help me ?

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Offline Sandra

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Re:Boot Error
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2004, 23:59 »
The easiest way would be to change the boot sequence from floppy first to having your hard drive as the first boot device in the bios.
Have you used powerquests drive image or partition magic at some point as its possibly something to do with one of those programs that has installed something into the config.sys or autoexec.bat ???


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