{"id":4,"date":"2008-03-26T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cotsweb.com\/blog\/windows-boot-ends-up-at-dos-prompt-4.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:20:02","slug":"windows-boot-ends-up-at-dos-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/windows-boot-ends-up-at-dos-prompt-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows boot ends up at DOS prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Wrong system disk<\/h3>\n<p>I recently solved a problem for someone using Windows XP. The computer tried to load Windows but couldn&#8217;t find some files and ended up at a DOS prompt.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the messages as the system booted up and noticed that it was booting from CD, checked the CD drive and sure enough there was a disk in there. Normally you would just get a non-system disk error but in this case the disk in question was actually a system disk, for Windows 98. Removing the disk solved the problem.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a boot problem make sure that there are no removable disks in the drives. You can set the boot order on most computers but they often check removable drives for a boot disk before checking the C: drive.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how often a fresh pair of eyes can spot the solution to a problem.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrong system disk I recently solved a problem for someone using Windows XP. The computer tried to load Windows but couldn&#8217;t find some files and ended up at a DOS prompt. I watched the messages as the system booted up and noticed that it was booting from CD, checked the CD drive and sure enough [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[13,15,14,16,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}