No boot possible

[Bob Harris]

If you have the XP CDROM, you have at several options:
recovery console, repair installation, parallel
installation, clean installation. If you do not have the
XP CDROM (e.g., Most newer computers from Dell and
similar), either ocntact the PC maker or find a PC repair
shop in the yellow pages.

Recovery console is a DOS-like mode, run directly form the
XP CDROM, which can fix some problems, like boot records,
BOOT.INI, file system errors, etc.

Repair installation installs XP on top of itself,
effectively refreshing all the system files. Repair does
not harm user files or settings. However, repair does
undo all patches and updates to XP.

Parallel installation installs a second copy of XP on a
different partitions. You need more than one hard drive
partition for this to be an option. You can then use the
second XP to attempt to fix the first one. However, you
have only 30 days, since you can not have two copies of XP
installed (even on the same computer) and get Microsoft to
agree to activate both of them.

Clean instalattion erases everything on the partition
containing the operating system (i.e., FORMAT's the disk),
then installs XP from scratch. You lose everything on
that partition, all settings, all installed programs, all
user data. If you have only one partition (i.e., C:\),
then you lose 100%.

See the following links for more info:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;315341

Good luck.

 

[FLASH]

Hi Bob,

thanks for your hint! Unfortunately It is not possible to
run my XP CDROM. Every time I try to get it started the
system drops and reboots. Tonight I got into the system
the first time in safe mode and found the
errormsg:c.\windows\options\oemaudit.inf: reRet=105 in the
FRUN logfile.

So, this computer has only 1 HD with several partitions,
no connection to internet or LAN. I hope there is a way
for me to get this fixed without loosing my very important
datas.

Cheers
Carsten