Windows (Still) Won't Boot

[Dustin]

I have tried

- Safe Mode
- Safe Mode w/ Comannand Prompt
- Last Good Config

None work. I tried with both profiles

You say its probaly caused by a hardware driver problem and
one of your reccomendations is to to a re install but
Q315341 says "Do not use a repair or in-place upgrade if
you suspect a problem with a non-Microsoft device and the
latest device drivers are currently installed for the device."

Hmm...

I'm trying the reinstall and repair but it doenst think
Windows is on the hard drive.

All it says it

38163 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
C: Partition1 [Unknown] 38162 MB (38162 MB) Free.

I didnt format the C: drive but it seems like it is. What
is wrong here?

-----Original Message-----
I have Windows XP Home Edition SP1 on one of my computers
and it was working just fine yesterday and today it wont
boot into Windows.

The computer, itself, boots and passes the POST but once
that is over and it gets on to booting Windows, I see the
Windows screen for like a second, then a BSOD for a
fraction of a second and then, click, it reboots. If I try
to boot it again the same sequence of events happen. I
think I might have a boot sector virus.

I have two boot profiles, one for regular computing and
another optimised for gaming.

Oh, I almost forgot, I bought and installed a new video
card a few days ago. It is a PNY Verto nVidia GeForce FX
5200 AGP (What a long name....). I don't think that is the
problem though because it worked just fine yesterday.

I really don't know how to solve this problem. I had to
post this message on my old laptop. I really want to get my
regular computer up and running again soon because it can
do things my laptop isn't capable of.

I don't really want to reinstall Windows because I do not
want to end up reinstalling my programs and losing
un-replacable files. I have tried using the Recover Console
on the XP CD and have tried rewriting the MBR. Didn't work.

Any help would be great.
.

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[Richard Urban]

Either your MBR went missing or your partition tables are screwed up. Using
the Windows XP CD, boot the computer into the recovery console. Type fixmbr
/? to see what options you have. Then try a repair.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

I have tried

- Safe Mode
- Safe Mode w/ Comannand Prompt
- Last Good Config

None work. I tried with both profiles

You say its probaly caused by a hardware driver problem and
one of your reccomendations is to to a re install but
Q315341 says "Do not use a repair or in-place upgrade if
you suspect a problem with a non-Microsoft device and the
latest device drivers are currently installed for the device."

Hmm...

I'm trying the reinstall and repair but it doenst think
Windows is on the hard drive.

All it says it

38163 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
C: Partition1 [Unknown] 38162 MB (38162 MB) Free.

I didnt format the C: drive but it seems like it is. What
is wrong here?

-----Original Message-----
I have Windows XP Home Edition SP1 on one of my computers
and it was working just fine yesterday and today it wont
boot into Windows.

The computer, itself, boots and passes the POST but once
that is over and it gets on to booting Windows, I see the
Windows screen for like a second, then a BSOD for a
fraction of a second and then, click, it reboots. If I try
to boot it again the same sequence of events happen. I
think I might have a boot sector virus.

I have two boot profiles, one for regular computing and
another optimised for gaming.

Oh, I almost forgot, I bought and installed a new video
card a few days ago. It is a PNY Verto nVidia GeForce FX
5200 AGP (What a long name....). I don't think that is the
problem though because it worked just fine yesterday.

I really don't know how to solve this problem. I had to
post this message on my old laptop. I really want to get my
regular computer up and running again soon because it can
do things my laptop isn't capable of.

I don't really want to reinstall Windows because I do not
want to end up reinstalling my programs and losing
un-replacable files. I have tried using the Recover Console
on the XP CD and have tried rewriting the MBR. Didn't work.

Any help would be great.
.

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