XP boot failure -- help !

[jkadtke]

Hello,

I have recently had a major system failure, specifically my Windows XP will no
longer fully boot. When I power on my computer, it gets to the "windows had
a problem starting up" page, where it gives options for starting in safe
mode,
normal mode, etc. However, no matter which option I choose, the computer
cycles through startup and comes back to this same page. I have tried hitting
F8 and getting to the advanced options, but I get the same result. Nothing I
try works. I suspect there are corrupted sectors in the core system
somewhere.

Does anyone have any ideas ? If I can at least get it to safe mode, I could
run CHKDSK with the repair option. Alternately, are any of the disk repair
products out there actually useful ? they are expensive and don't look like
they would really help.

FYI -- my computer is a Sony Vaio laptop, and I have been diligently
keeping Windows updated, using system cleaners and security software, etc.
However, this failure occurred within a day of doing a disk image backup
using Acronis.

thanks, Jim

 

[Mark Adams]

Hello,

I have recently had a major system failure, specifically my Windows XP will no
longer fully boot. When I power on my computer, it gets to the "windows had
a problem starting up" page, where it gives options for starting in safe
mode,
normal mode, etc. However, no matter which option I choose, the computer
cycles through startup and comes back to this same page. I have tried hitting
F8 and getting to the advanced options, but I get the same result. Nothing I
try works. I suspect there are corrupted sectors in the core system
somewhere.

Does anyone have any ideas ? If I can at least get it to safe mode, I could
run CHKDSK with the repair option. Alternately, are any of the disk repair
products out there actually useful ? they are expensive and don't look like
they would really help.

FYI -- my computer is a Sony Vaio laptop, and I have been diligently
keeping Windows updated, using system cleaners and security software, etc.
However, this failure occurred within a day of doing a disk image backup
using Acronis.

thanks, Jim

Since you have an Acronis disk image from before the failure, just restore
from the Acronis image. If the machine still won't run after the image
restore, you probably have a hardware failure.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

See replies to your previous post.

 

[Twayne]

In

Hello,

I have recently had a major system failure, specifically my

....

However, this failure occurred within a day

of doing a disk image backup using Acronis.

thanks, Jim

Well, since you have an image from the day before it happened, why not
restore the Boot drive with Acronis? That's exactly what images are for!

HTH,

Twayne`