Is there anyway to start my XP computer in DOS .HELP!!!!

[Scott]

I have listed the dialog from last night on my computer
issue. I am still looking for help. I can not log into
windows XP when I do it instantly logs me out. I am
looking for a way into DOS at start up. Below is a
complete discription of the problem.
Help me Please, Scott





**** When I attempt to log into XP it almost instantly
logs me
out. I have gone the F8 route and regardless of the boot
selection I make the same problem occurs (and trust me I
tried them all). I do not have an XP disk, I only have a
restore disk that I don't want to use because I have to
many files that will be lost. Can anyone help me, Please.

* How do you have your accounts set up, and which account
are you using?

* I only have one user account set up. The problem occurs
in the Admin profile as well.
I have seen two other people posting with a similar
problem which also started today. i am wondering if I
have a new virus of some sort.
I need help Please. Any Ideas?

* Try Safe Mode, and, if you can get in, you may want to
try a System Restore
(see Help and Support). System Restore, of course, will
not get rid of a
virus, if that is what you have.
To get into Safe Mode, press F8 repeatedly while the
system is booting up.
You will get a menu with Safe Mode as one option.

* When I attempt to sign in through Safe Mode the same
problems occurs. I have tryied every single option on the
F8 menu out of deperstion to try to get this thing to log
in nothing works. Is there a command to go directly to a
DOS Promt? Something it seems is triggering it to log out
as soon as I log in with no time to do anything. I'm
stumped. If I did'nt need the files so bad I would drive
over it and go back to paper. Any additional help would
be appreciated.
Scott

*You may need to use the Recovery Console. This is
somewhat technical, and
you may or may not want to proceed. You need a bootable
XP CD. "You'll need
to make sure the boot order in your bios is set to boot
from the XP CD to
get into the recovery console(see your motherboard
manual). Then after
getting in, you'd have to use the appropriate command.
The 3 commands you
can run most likely to help you would be:
Chkdsk
Fixboot
Fix MBR" (courtesy of Chad Harris)

The End So Far

 

[dev]

Scott said:

I have listed the dialog from last night on my computer
issue. I am still looking for help. I can not log into
windows XP when I do it instantly logs me out. I am
looking for a way into DOS at start up.

There is no DOS in XP. However, for a command prompt try START|RUN, then
type "msconfig". Click the BOOT.INI tab and tic the NoGui box. Reboot,
and see what happens.

 

[Edward]

I've never tried it, Scott, but can you borrow an XP CD to boot to and see
if you can get in that way?

With sympathy...

Ed

 

[Jim Macklin]

the recovery console is as close as you can come, there is
no DOS in XP, just a command line DOS-emulator.

If you are using FAT32 you can boot with W98 boot disk.


| I've never tried it, Scott, but can you borrow an XP CD to
boot to and see
| if you can get in that way?
|
| With sympathy...
|
| Ed
|
|
|
|
|
message
| | > I have listed the dialog from last night on my computer
| > issue. I am still looking for help. I can not log into
| > windows XP when I do it instantly logs me out. I am
| > looking for a way into DOS at start up. Below is a
| > complete discription of the problem.
| > Help me Please, Scott
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > **** When I attempt to log into XP it almost instantly
| > logs me
| > out. I have gone the F8 route and regardless of the boot
| > selection I make the same problem occurs (and trust me I
| > tried them all). I do not have an XP disk, I only have a
| > restore disk that I don't want to use because I have to
| > many files that will be lost. Can anyone help me,
Please.
| >
| > * How do you have your accounts set up, and which
account
| > are you using?
| >
| > * I only have one user account set up. The problem
occurs
| > in the Admin profile as well.
| > I have seen two other people posting with a similar
| > problem which also started today. i am wondering if I
| > have a new virus of some sort.
| > I need help Please. Any Ideas?
| >
| > * Try Safe Mode, and, if you can get in, you may want to
| > try a System Restore
| > (see Help and Support). System Restore, of course, will
| > not get rid of a
| > virus, if that is what you have.
| > To get into Safe Mode, press F8 repeatedly while the
| > system is booting up.
| > You will get a menu with Safe Mode as one option.
| >
| > * When I attempt to sign in through Safe Mode the same
| > problems occurs. I have tryied every single option on
the
| > F8 menu out of deperstion to try to get this thing to
log
| > in nothing works. Is there a command to go directly to a
| > DOS Promt? Something it seems is triggering it to log
out
| > as soon as I log in with no time to do anything. I'm
| > stumped. If I did'nt need the files so bad I would drive
| > over it and go back to paper. Any additional help would
| > be appreciated.
| > Scott
| >
| > *You may need to use the Recovery Console. This is
| > somewhat technical, and
| > you may or may not want to proceed. You need a bootable
| > XP CD. "You'll need
| > to make sure the boot order in your bios is set to boot
| > from the XP CD to
| > get into the recovery console(see your motherboard
| > manual). Then after
| > getting in, you'd have to use the appropriate command.
| > The 3 commands you
| > can run most likely to help you would be:
| > Chkdsk
| > Fixboot
| > Fix MBR" (courtesy of Chad Harris)
| >
| > The End So Far
| >
|
|

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have listed the dialog from last night on my computer
issue. I am still looking for help. I can not log into
windows XP when I do it instantly logs me out. I am
looking for a way into DOS at start up.

There is no DOS to get to, except by booting a Win98 startup floppy (and
you would need the HD to be FAT 32 for that to be useful, though you can
get supplementary software to allow you to read NTFS files from there.

You say that you tried everything on the F8 Menu - the best hope would
be the
Safe Mode - Command Prompt
from which launch System Restore by
%SystemRoot\System32\Restore\rstrui.exe

If even that is not possible, then best bet would be to borrow a retail
XP CD and see if you could boot that to Recovery mode, and use the
Recovery console -- or even to try a Repair reinstall, though I doubt if
that would go through given that yours is an OEM installation