Drew510 said:
I can't seem to boot up my windows XP...it goes to a screen where it asks
if
i want to safe mode it, start windows normally, and other things I can't
recall...I have tried all of them but the system just keeps restarting and
going back to the same screen after 2 min. plz help me
How far does it go in the boot process before it restarts?
Resources for troubleshooting startup problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308041/en-us
Is there a full and complete backup of data? If not I recommend you do that
first.
Here are some options for how to do this.
1. Take the drive out of the computer and install it as a slave drive in
another Windows XP or 2000 computer. It should read the drive ok, so you can
copy the data.
2. Create a bootable Bart's PE disk, boot from that, then copy the data to
external USB drive or flash drive.
3. Download a bootable Linux distro called Knoppix. Create a bootable CD
from that, boot from it, and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, or
if the computer has two CD drives, one of which is a burner, then use the
k3b burning program on the Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.
4. Take it to a competent computer tech to backup the data.
After the data is backed up, if the drive was installed as a slave drive in
another XP computer, then run a chkdsk /r on the drive. If the check
completes reinstall the drive in the original computer and see if it boots.
If it doesn't look further down in this message.
If it's in the original computer as the boot drive then boot from the XP CD
and take the first R for repair. This will take you to the recovery console.
Enter the number for the windows installation, normally it's "1", then type
in the password for the built in Administrator account. For XP Home this is
normally blank so just hit enter. For XP Pro it's the password assigned to
this account when XP was first installed. This is not the password for your
normal account but for the built in Administrator account.
When it get's to the command prompt type
chkdsk /r
enter
After the disk check is done, exit the recovery console, take out the XP CD
and reboot. If the computer boots into Windows great, if not, boot from the
XP CD again and do a repair install. See this link:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm