Startup Freezing--Can I Repair Without Reinstalling?

[Guest]

Yesterday, I turned on my laptop, it got to the blue screen with the Windows
logo (I have Windows XP Home with SP2) and then it would go no further (would
not load the desktop). It would not startup in safe mode (or any of the other
modes listed when hitting the F8 key at startup), and I also tried the chkdsk
and fixboot options using the Recovery Console--all to no avail. The computer
was working fine yesterday morning. What is happening, and is there any way
to repair windows so that it will start up properly without having to
reinstall Windows and loose all of my data? (I have some files backed up,
but, unfortunately, it is a very old backup.)

Please help.

Cherie

 

[Nepatsfan]

Yesterday, I turned on my laptop, it got to the blue screen
with the Windows logo (I have Windows XP Home with SP2) and
then it would go no further (would not load the desktop). It
would not startup in safe mode (or any of the other modes
listed when hitting the F8 key at startup), and I also tried
the chkdsk and fixboot options using the Recovery
Console--all to no avail. The computer was working fine
yesterday morning. What is happening, and is there any way
to repair windows so that it will start up properly without
having to reinstall Windows and loose all of my data? (I
have some files backed up, but, unfortunately, it is a very
old backup.)

Please help.

Cherie

You might want to take a look here:

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan