Unable to startup/boot

[Guest]

Please can anyone help! When I try to boot winxp pro. It stops with an error
message saying 'winlogon.exe component missing' then says reinstalling could
solve the problem, but I am unable to boot, in any mode. It also sayd
'ole32.dll file missing'. I have tried safe mode. When I try and reboot with
the winxp CD in place, it will not start from CD. I have made sure that the
boot sequence has been changed, but still no luck. Please can anyone help!!

 

[John Barnett MVP]

When you boot from the CD you should get a message in the top left hand
corner of a black screen saying 'press any key to boot from CD' You need to
press any key for the windows boot sequence to start.

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[Guest]

It is not reading from the CD. Can I boot up from a DOS promt al all?
Thanks
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LMC

When you boot from the CD you should get a message in the top left hand
corner of a black screen saying 'press any key to boot from CD' You need to
press any key for the windows boot sequence to start.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

The information in this post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this post. The Author shall not be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use
of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post..

 

[Rock]

It is not reading from the CD. Can I boot up from a DOS promt al all?
Thanks

You shouldn't start the same thread in different newsgroups. Please
stay with the thread in windowsxp.general.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

If you have a floppy disk drive you could download the Windows XP boot disks
from www.bootdisk.com You will need to choose which version, i.e home or Pro
and then download the relevant file (you are redirected to the Microsoft
site for the download). Run the application and it will create 6 floppy
disks (make sure you have the floppies handy). label them 1 through to 6 and
then insert the first floppy into your floppy drive and reboot. Mkae sure
you also put your CD into the CD-ROM this will be needed later. You will be
asked to change the floppies as necessary during the main part of
installation. As installation progresses it should finally access the CD and
continue installation from there. I assume the CD-ROM does work correctly?
have you tried other CDs in it?


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It is not reading from the CD. Can I boot up from a DOS promt al all?
Thanks

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I have tried, from another PC and when I try to open the file I get
an error message '16 bit ms dos subsytem'. with another message ending'The
file system is not suiteable for running ms dos and sindows applications.
Close to terminate' So I have downloaded the file, but cannot get in onto the
disks. Any ideas?

Thnaks

 

[Aeisedi]

Send me an email to (e-mail address removed) I have a tool that will replace
those files for you.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I managed to start up by downloading a boot CD for XP,
and then reinstalling windows, as I could not fix it. Now I have two winxp
os's on the PC , which is using all the disk space. Can anyone tell me how
to delete to first os that will not load, even though I will lose all the
data? Or is there a way to fix the first os then delete the most recently
installed one?

Thanks again for your help!