I am having a boot problem and have been unable to fix. I am running XP Pro on a 1.7Ghz P4 with a 160GB Mator and a 60GB slave. Everthing was working fine on shutdown but the upon next start-up, I recived the following message and Windows would not load:
Verifying DMI pool data... update successful

I have run the following from XP recovery consol with no progress:
chkdisk and chkdsk /r
fixboot
fixmbr

I have inplugged the ethernet, USB, and fax modem cards and rebooted to no avail.

I have a Linux boot CD-ROM (Knoppix) and I can see the both hards drives and the files on them (they all look fine) but the boot disk is a read-only so I cannot move or modify any files.

I have no idea what my next steps should be. Any ideas?
TIA,
Richard

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