WinXP Home Ed. Help

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WinXP home on an HP Pavilion ze4402us laptop. About two weeks ago I
started experiencing problems, started getting a blue screen of death
on boot. Booted from the install CD to do a repair. Went to the
recovery console performed a fixboot & fixmbr on separate boots from
the CD. Neither fixed the problem, and now when it boots, I see
starting WinXP Home like it normally would but then, an error is
flashed for less than a second and the machine reboots. I tried to
boot to safe mode but the same thing occurs. What else can I do in the
recovery console solve this problem?

Also, I've taken the hard drive out of the laptop and attached it to my
XP Pro pc. When I did this XP Pro installed a driver for it and wanted
a reboot. Once back into XP Pro as an Admin, I've gone to Computer
Management -> Storage -> Disk management to try to import the disk but
I see no option to do so. I've tried right clicking on the laptop disk
then properties but all I see is General, Tools & Hardware tabs. XP
Pro sees the disk, but it does not see that there is an NTFS file
system on it. If I can at least get a copy of the existing data, I can
re-install the OS. Anyone have any ideas going this route?

Help!
Pete's
 
Hi Pete,

Just do a repair install - not going into the Recovery Console. Follow the
instructions as if you were installing XP for the first time, but after you
hit F8 to accept the agreement, choose the option to repair instead of full
install.

Hope this helps,
Newtechie
 
Thanks for the suggestion, I already tried it, but unfortunately
windows couldn't fix itself. It appears that something corrupted the
filesystem somewhere in the Program Files directory. I ended up
removing the Hard Drive, buying and ide adapter and booting 'Trinity
Rescue Kit' and was able to get the critical data off of it.

Thanks,
Pete's
 
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