windows xp does not start.

[v]

When I turn on my PC windows just starts again and again. My C drive is a
Fat32 drive, it is not NTFS for some reason. I have a emergency boot CD but
I think it expects the drive to be NTFS, so going to cmd prompt without
starting windows doesn't help.

 

[SC Tom]

When I turn on my PC windows just starts again and again. My C drive is a
Fat32 drive, it is not NTFS for some reason. I have a emergency boot CD
but I think it expects the drive to be NTFS, so going to cmd prompt
without starting windows doesn't help.

Are you still having the chkdsk problem on boot up?

SC Tom

 

[v]

I don't know if it really is a chkdsk problem because it reboots ater
finishing or cancelling chkdsk and then goes in the same cycle again. Though
the problem started after running chkdsk /F

 

[db]

well, it is unclear where the
rebooting is occurring.

is it before the diagnostic
menu or after you make a
boot selection.

what I would try is to hold
down the f8 key immediately
after booting and see if you
can pull up the diagnostic menu.

another thing you might try
is to inspect your bios settings
and ensure that your hard disk
is seen by the motherboard.

if none of the above pan out
then you have two options:

1 take that hard disk out and
install it in a functional pc as a
slave and hope you can repair
the o.s.

2 ascertain a boot cd or any
xp cd and boot the recovery console
and work on the disk system, if
possible.

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for a booting cd, you might try
making a barts pe but I would
look for a xp cd if possible.

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[Patrick Keenan]

When I turn on my PC windows just starts again and again. My C drive is a
Fat32 drive, it is not NTFS for some reason. I have a emergency boot CD
but I think it expects the drive to be NTFS, so going to cmd prompt
without starting windows doesn't help.

Emergency boot CDs shouldn't care whether the drive is NTFS or FAT. Is
there some sort of error message that appears?

There is a simple thing to try that I have found can fix this sort of
behaviour.

Remove the drive, attach it to another system, and delete the file
'pagefile.sys' from the root of the attached drive. Empty the wastebasket.

Put the drive back in place and restart in Safe Mode (press F8).

If the problem doesn't resolve, consider yourself to be in data recovery
mode, and stop poking at the drive. Get data recovery software and see what
you can get before the drive fails completely.

HTH
-pk