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DilzoWelcome to Radified Forums. Your post has some confusing statements--so I'm going to ask for some clarifications:
Quote:i put in the norton ghost 9.0 cd and i did the pc doctor thing and it started working
I think Ghost 9 does have some *utilities* on the bootable installation disc when you boot to its *Recovery Environment*--but, I'm not sure which ones for sure--I don't personally use Ghost 9--but, could you explain *pc doctor thing*--not sure what that might be.....
Quote:i have a computer dx2000 mt (yeah its a very old computer had it for like 6 years) but recently its into a startup loop
What was the last major thing (installed a new program, changed a setting, installed new hardware) you did on the system before that problem showed up--that may point to the problem!
Might be able to gain control by hitting the F8 key as soon as the system completes its initial POST sequence and says it's beginning to load the OS--probably just after the single beep. If you time it right, you should get a boot menu for Windows giving several choices--one of which should be *Start in Safe Mode*. Choose that one and see if you can get into Windows Safe Mode.
If *Yes*, Safe Mode has limited functions, but you should be able to do some basic trouble shooting. You might actually get a chance to see whatever the error is. If so, copy down the exact information and post it so we can see it.
You don't mention which OS you have, but if it's WinXP, you may be able to stop the automatic restart as follows:
Quote:You can stop the *automatic* reboot behavior by changing a default setting--may be able to do that on a current system that is giving you problems by hitting F8 and selecting booting to *Safe Mode*.
Rt click *My Computer*, select *Properties*, go to *Advanced*, *Startup and Recovery/Settings*--in *System failure*, un-check *Automatically restart*.
Quote:now when i insert the disc it starts up as pc dos 7.1 start up menu and gives me 5 choices
Ghost 9 was a transition version of Ghost, and Symantec included an installation disc for Ghost 2003 as well for those folks you could not install Ghost 9 (I think you had to have WinXP running for Ghost 9--if you still had Win98se or similar, then your only choice was Ghost 2003.) The boot you are describing is to the Ghost 2003 DOS boot--and is completely unrelated to Ghost 9!
The various *failure* messages are because the DOS boot disc is a general disc that is attempting to load various DOS drivers for different types of optical drives. If they are not found, then the load fails and the boot sequence moves on to the next item.
Quote:MSCDEX Version 2.25
Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 1986-1994. All rights reserved
Drive c: = Driver CD1 Unit 0
Your optical drive was found, and probably *OakCDRom* DOS driver was successfully loaded and MSCDEX is successfully assigning a DOS drive letter to your optical drive--i.e. drive *C*--you probably have only NTFS partition(s) on your HDD--and DOS can not *see* the NTFS file system--so no drive letter(s) are assigned to anything but your optical drive.
Quote:One more thing every time I try and enter anything it says "Bad command line"
DOS requires very specific commands--if mistyped or inappropriate--you get that response.
Quote:Thats all that happens and i don't know what to do next
Find you Ghost 9 CD? But, I'm still not sure what that *pc doctor thingy* is--and how it helped!
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