Windows XP Recovery Console

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I am trying to resote my fathers computer. He has XP Pro SP2.
It crashed and won't boot to hard drive.
When I run the XP disk and load the repair option it's all good untill I get
to the Recovery Console screen.

From most of what I've read online, it supposed to look like this:

"The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality."
"Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer."
"1. C:WINDOWS"

But this says:

"The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality."
"Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer."
"The path or file specified is not valid."
"C:\>"

Do you think the "WINDOWS" director may be corrupted?
If so, how do I repair that?
 
t.hilchey said:
I am trying to resote my fathers computer. He has XP Pro SP2.
It crashed and won't boot to hard drive.
When I run the XP disk and load the repair option it's all good untill I
get
to the Recovery Console screen.

From most of what I've read online, it supposed to look like this:

"The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality."
"Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer."
"1. C:WINDOWS"

But this says:

"The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality."
"Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer."
"The path or file specified is not valid."
"C:\>"

Do you think the "WINDOWS" director may be corrupted?
If so, how do I repair that?
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We can't tell unless you post full details about what happens
during the normal boot process, what you see on the screen
and how it gets.
 
You haven't yet proven that the hard drive itself can be read. If you get
the C:\ prompt, do a DIR command and see what it returns. Specifically, what
directories?
 
when I do that it shows nothing, just the c:>


Gary S. Terhune said:
You haven't yet proven that the hard drive itself can be read. If you get
the C:\ prompt, do a DIR command and see what it returns. Specifically, what
directories?
Click to expand...
 
Do what Pegasus said. Sounds to me like the HD isn't accessible. Could be
the drive gone bad, could be a loose cable (there are two), the motherboard
controller might be bad...
 
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