Computer Won't Boot

[Ryan]

This is what happens when I try to boot up:

I get the "Compaq" splash screen, and then it goes to a black screen with a
blinking DOS cursor and freezes. When I make the drive slave and boot off
another drive, I can access all my files except the ones I need. Which are
in C:/documents and settings/Ryan/my documents. I can't get into that
because I am not loggged on as an admin on that drive. I have run out of
ideas??? Any help?

There are 2 partitions on the drive. Windows XP, and Windows 2000. It stops
right before it gets to the screen to select which OS you want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


Ryan

 

[Alex]

Could always try an "Fdisk /mbr" -worked for me once when that happened on
one of my old machines.

 

[Apollo]

This is what happens when I try to boot up:

I get the "Compaq" splash screen, and then it goes to a black screen with a
blinking DOS cursor and freezes. When I make the drive slave and boot off
another drive, I can access all my files except the ones I need. Which are
in C:/documents and settings/Ryan/my documents. I can't get into that
because I am not loggged on as an admin on that drive. I have run out of
ideas??? Any help?

There are 2 partitions on the drive. Windows XP, and Windows 2000. It stops
right before it gets to the screen to select which OS you want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Boot from the second drive, log in a admin or user with admin rights, right
click on the partition where your data is and select the security tab, click
advanced, select the owner tab, select check-box replace owner on
subcontainers and objects, select the current user and click ok.

This may not be the exactly the way, I've done it in the past but can't
remember the order. Experiment with the ownership thing until it works, I
don't know if this will work if you have an encrypted filesystem though.

HTH