Boot failure after hibernation

[andreas]

My laptop last night was on battery and it was playing a music cd.
When the battery run out it went into hibernation. When I put the
charger on and press the button to start windows a black screen
appeared with a menu to choose (Boot Normally, Last Known Good, Safe
Mode etc). Any option I choose it appears to be trying to boot then a
quick flash of a blue screen with some message I can't read because it
is so fast, then it restart and back to the menu of the boot options.
Same thing every time. I'm very worried of losing my data if a format
is required to re-install the windows. Can you please help?

Thanks in advance!

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try booting up with
your windows cd and
log into the recovery console.

when you get to the recovery
console command prompt run the
following commands:

chkdsk
fixboot

then "exit" and try to
reboot with out the cd.

the section on
"how to use the recovery console command prompt"
will explain the above:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654



if the above fails, you can
use you windows cd and
do a "windows repair".

this is better than a
"re-installation" of the o.s.

here are the instructions:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx



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[andreas]

Thanks a lot! I'll try that and let you know the result!

a.