WIndows XP Repair Utiltie

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My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong with the OS
and it gave option of booting Normal windows or safe mode. IT booted normal
windows when the time ran down then came with a message no OS found. I hit
the reset button then after the XP splash screen it goes to the boot options
again. Doesn't matter which I pick normal or safe mode it just keeps coming
back and rebooting. I guess I'll need the XP repair utilities to fix this
and want to know is it on the SP1 disc? Looked through the plastic pack that
came with the computer and can't find the XP disc only the Compaq quick
restore which would reformat the disc and all info would be lost. When I
tried safe mode that loads everything one drive at a time it always hangs
and reboots at windows/system32/agp440 something like that. I tried to
reboot using a working configuration but same thing happens. Anything I
should know about the utilities and how to use it and use after I get the
computer back and make sure it reboots fine I'll delete all the old restore
files. Does it matter that SP2 is on the computer when using the repair
utilities? I think either new defender update did something or the new BC
Wipe removed something important which is strange since the files it was
wiping had nothing to do with the OS. Older versions of BC wipe worked fine.
There is data i do not want to loss on the HD so need to fix and not loss it
 
Dagger said:
My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong with
the OS and it gave option of booting Normal windows or safe mode. IT
booted normal windows when the time ran down then came with a message
no OS found. I hit the reset button then after the XP splash screen
it goes to the boot options again. Doesn't matter which I pick normal
or safe mode it just keeps coming back and rebooting. I guess I'll
need the XP repair utilities to fix this and want to know is it on
the SP1 disc? Looked through the plastic pack that came with the
computer and can't find the XP disc only the Compaq quick restore
which would reformat the disc and all info would be lost. When I
tried safe mode that loads everything one drive at a time it always
hangs and reboots at windows/system32/agp440 something like that. I
tried to reboot using a working configuration but same thing happens.
Anything I should know about the utilities and how to use it and use
after I get the computer back and make sure it reboots fine I'll
delete all the old restore files. Does it matter that SP2 is on the
computer when using the repair utilities? I think either new defender
update did something or the new BC Wipe removed something important
which is strange since the files it was wiping had nothing to do with
the OS. Older versions of BC wipe worked fine. There is data i do not
want to loss on the HD so need to fix and not loss it
Click to expand...

Move the harddrive to a working computer, and backup the data you want
saved. Then put the harddrive back in the Compaq computer and use their
destructive quick restore disk.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong
with the OS and it gave option of booting Normal windows or safe
mode. IT booted normal windows when the time ran down then came
with a message no OS found. I hit the reset button then after the
XP splash screen it goes to the boot options again. Doesn't matter
which I pick normal or safe mode it just keeps coming back and
rebooting. I guess I'll need the XP repair utilities to fix this
and want to know is it on the SP1 disc? Looked through the plastic
pack that came with the computer and can't find the XP disc only
the Compaq quick restore which would reformat the disc and all
info would be lost. When I tried safe mode that loads everything
one drive at a time it always hangs and reboots at
windows/system32/agp440 something like that. I tried to reboot
using a working configuration but same thing happens. Anything I
should know about the utilities and how to use it and use after I
get the computer back and make sure it reboots fine I'll delete
all the old restore files. Does it matter that SP2 is on the
computer when using the repair utilities? I think either new
defender update did something or the new BC Wipe removed
something important which is strange since the files it was wiping
had nothing to do with the OS. Older versions of BC wipe worked
fine. There is data i do not want to loss on the HD so need to fix
and not loss it
Click to expand...

If I were in your situation, I would boot the computer from either a
Knoppix CD or a BartPE CD (both free, see below), back up all my
data over the network to another machine, then reinstall Windows
from the OEM Restore disk. Knoppix will mount NTFS disks as read-
only while BartPE will allow writing to NTFS disks (in case you want
to attempt a repair yourself).
<http://www.knoppix.org>
<http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/>

HTH,
John
 
Dagger said:
My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong
Click to expand...
[...]

Move the harddrive to a working computer, and backup the data you
want saved. Then put the harddrive back in the Compaq computer
and use their destructive quick restore disk.
Click to expand...
Isn't this a bit difficult with a laptop drive?

-- John
 
John said:
Dagger said:
My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong
[...]
Click to expand...

Move the harddrive to a working computer, and backup the data you
want saved. Then put the harddrive back in the Compaq computer
and use their destructive quick restore disk.
Click to expand...
Isn't this a bit difficult with a laptop drive?

-- John
Click to expand...

Not if you got the right tools.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
My Compaq Laptop booted with a message that something went wrong
[...]
Move the harddrive to a working computer, and backup the data you
want saved. Then put the harddrive back in the Compaq computer
and use their destructive quick restore disk.
Click to expand...

Isn't this a bit difficult with a laptop drive?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
nope, laptop to IDE cable adapter

http://www.casecooler.com/3drto2dr.html
Click to expand...

I didn't know about those adapters. They could come in very handy.
Thanks
-- John
 
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