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I recently have put together a customized PC, and have already installed
Windows Xp. However, I was trying to update my Ethernet Controller on my
motherboard by using the Intel site. When I ran the LAN driver update, I was
told to restart the computer. However, now when I start up the PC I get a
message to insert boot disk. I never received a boot disk with my
motherboard, all I received was an Intel Application Accelerator 3.0 Raid
Edition 'Raid Driver' for Intel Desktop Boards, which doesn't seem to help.
For now, I'm stuck in DOS and can't get past the boot disk message, and I
can't enter Windows. I tried reinstalling windows over the C: partition, but
after that was finished and I restarted, the boot disk message pops up again.
Is there a site online to create a boot disk, or is there some other way to
fix this problem?

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Have you tried F8 at boot and choose a previous known good profile, or a
restore point if you ever created one? If all failed, you can try recovery
console by boot from your XP installation CD to see if you can disable the
driver you installed.

Good luck.

Vince.

"spudmonkey" <spudmonkey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01A3E0B0-759F-4FE8-9E43-5298CC31820F@microsoft.com...
> I recently have put together a customized PC, and have already installed
> Windows Xp. However, I was trying to update my Ethernet Controller on my
> motherboard by using the Intel site. When I ran the LAN driver update, I
was
> told to restart the computer. However, now when I start up the PC I get a
> message to insert boot disk. I never received a boot disk with my
> motherboard, all I received was an Intel Application Accelerator 3.0 Raid
> Edition 'Raid Driver' for Intel Desktop Boards, which doesn't seem to
help.
> For now, I'm stuck in DOS and can't get past the boot disk message, and I
> can't enter Windows. I tried reinstalling windows over the C: partition,
but
> after that was finished and I restarted, the boot disk message pops up
again.
> Is there a site online to create a boot disk, or is there some other way
to
> fix this problem?
>

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