Cannot Start XP Professional

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I'm doing this post from an internet cafe as I am not able to get WXP Pro to
load on my Dell PC (it's an XPS system). A blue screeen appeared saying 'IRQL
not equal' or 'bad pool header'. Normally, the PC would restart and work
again. However last week it keeps on trying to retsart. I tried to re-install
XP but this installation is getting stuck at the same point, in a continuous
loop. I also put the re-boot disks to try to recover, but this doens't work
either. Unfortuantely, I didn't create an automated system recovery disk for
the PC sop can't use that.

My problem is that most of the suppoort in this area assumes at some stage
that Windows can be accessed. This is not the case for me. When I power on,
all that happens is the continuous loop I referred to above appears. I have
been able to do a bardware scal via the machine's boot-up menu, and there
doesn't seem to be any problem with teh mard drive - so what I really need to
do is get XP working again. Needless to say, I do not want to lose any of my
personal or music files (of which there are many)!!

Any or all help / pointing me in the right direction will be greatly
appreciated.
 
Nollaig said:
I'm doing this post from an internet cafe as I am not able to get
WXP Pro to load on my Dell PC (it's an XPS system). A blue screeen
appeared saying 'IRQL not equal' or 'bad pool header'. Normally,
the PC would restart and work again. However last week it keeps on
trying to retsart. I tried to re-install XP but this installation
is getting stuck at the same point, in a continuous loop. I also
put the re-boot disks to try to recover, but this doens't work
either. Unfortuantely, I didn't create an automated system recovery
disk for the PC sop can't use that.

My problem is that most of the suppoort in this area assumes at
some stage that Windows can be accessed. This is not the case for
me. When I power on, all that happens is the continuous loop I
referred to above appears. I have been able to do a bardware scal
via the machine's boot-up menu, and there doesn't seem to be any
problem with teh mard drive - so what I really need to do is get XP
working again. Needless to say, I do not want to lose any of my
personal or music files (of which there are many)!!

Any or all help / pointing me in the right direction will be greatly
appreciated.
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Could be Bad Driver or Bad Hardware.
What bothers me most is that you said...
"... Normally, the PC would restart and work again ..."
As if this has been happening for a long time and since it worked on the
next reboot - you did nothing to fix it before things went really south. heh

I suppose the other statement about, "... do not want to lose any of my
personal or music files (of which there are many)!! ..." adds that even
though you knew this machine had issues, you didn't bother (even then) to do
periodic backups to external media?

Does it boot into Safe Mode?
 
Thanks fort he quick response, Shenan, sorry if I gave the impression that
this has been happening for months - it hasn't - more like a couple of weeks
and this particular issue only just over a week.

Most of my stuff is safely backed up to external media, but the last couple
of week's stuff is not, and you know how difficult it can be (for example) to
re-create an iTunes installation (for example) with all its playlists, etc.

It doesn't boot into safe mode unfortunately. The Dell diagnostics are the
only thing you can get into, which is how I could see that a scan of the hard
drive showed it to be OK.

Anything else I might or should do??

Thanks again,

Nollaig.
 
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