can't boot XP Home

[Guest]

Hi all,

win xp home suddenly kind of locked up. It appeared that my norton was
consuming quite a bit of resources but it kind of died down and remained
locked up... about all I could pull up was the win task manager.

I rebooted and went to the screen before the
windows xp screen (in summary) 'Windows cannot start up because of a resent
software or hardware change. another problem could be that windows
experianced a power failure during start up'. that is what it basically said,
and it gave me a couple options:

safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode with command prompt
revert to last working settings
run windows normally
(these aren't the exact words, but again, in summary)

no matter which I select I'm looped back to this page after win tried to
load for a few seconds.

I does appear that the primary and slave HD are being acknowledged and the
bios seems to be loading fine.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks in advance,
j

 

[M and D]

"How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us

Steven

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steven - it's very important that I retain all of the 'stuff' on the
HD it looks like I could possibly lose it following the instructions?

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

John,
Do not jump into using procedure in that KB article. Please see my answer to your other post.
Your situation does not call for that kb. (at least not yet--- a long way).
HTH