xp home has error on boot up

[Ronaldo]

As far as I know, the OEM CD does not repair-install an existing
installation, at least that's what you read everywhere but I have repaired
my installation several times... not the last time though.. it may be
related to the service pack because I never had the problem when I used a
SP1 OEM CD.

You may want to repair the Master Boot Record and Boot Sector by means of
the Recovery Console before trying to repair the whole system. Use the CD
as if you're starting an installation and select the Recovery Console option
and type the drive number, then the administrator password when prompted,
and after that type the and use the FIXMBR command followed by the FIXBOOT
command... when the boot sector repair is completed a few seconds later,
type Exit and see if the system boots-up.

See the images for using the Recovery Console, you'll only need to get as
far as the fifth image before you have to type FIXMBR.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxprcons.html

 

[Ronaldo]

Check the links for very usefull information on a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#top



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[daniel]

My windows xp OS displays an error message during bootup which asks for =
me to install the original windows setup disk and to type "r" when =
prompted to repair the problem. However I have obtained a setup disk =
from a local computer repair store and when I boot up with the disk =
inserted, and then I follow the prompts after the EULA appears, =
it does not give me an "r" option among the options presented. I don't
=
want to use the System Recovery disks that came with my computer because =
I will lose all of my user files when the system is recovered back to =
factory settings. what can i do?