Originally posted by: Slowlearner
mrbill14
Would you please spell out your solution in some detail, for our future reference.
Thanks
The solution is very easy (for a majority of the cases). "Begin cut and paste" (from an earlier e-mail):
For the original poster, he didn't have a floppy drive, so we had to make a bootable CD for the problem PC. He went to a PC that did have the floppy drive and made the bootable floppy. THEN we had to go into Nero (or you're CD burning program of choice) and make a bootable CD. Otherwise, you can boot directly off the newly created floppy.
Once you boot up (off floppy or CD), let Partition Magic start (it will automatically). It should see you hard drive (or hard drives, if you have more than one). Right-click on the drive and select "Check Disk for errors".
This is a non-destructive disk check (it won't hurt any data on your hard drive). Hopefully, it will clear the flag (or find the error) and clear it up. You should be able to reboot normally and (again) hopefully, the PC will boot up.
If not, something else is going on (probably a bigger problem).