XP won't reboot

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Cherie

Since installing XP Home a couple of month's ago, have
had repeated problems with failure to reboot in any mode.
I do not know the necessary commands to use the recovery
console. This occurs without any warning, no error
messages, nothing. Cannot track failures to any specific
installations. Any ideas? I'm going to give up soon and
return to my old OS if this continues!
 
Cherie said:
Since installing XP Home a couple of month's ago, have
had repeated problems with failure to reboot in any mode.
I do not know the necessary commands to use the recovery
console. This occurs without any warning, no error
messages, nothing. Cannot track failures to any specific
installations. Any ideas?
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Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over.

There try a
CHKDSK C: /F
which sometimes helps with such things. Beyond that, your troubles are
too unspecific for me to suggest anything you could do there
It uses the commands you can look up in Help and Support, doing a search
on "Recovery Console Commands"

If you find the need for this on a regular basis, then your hard disk
has to be suspect, but I would next do a repair reinstall, to ensure
everything is in order. Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then
boot the XP CD, start Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then
after the license agreement take 'Repair Installation'. This will
retain your existing software installations and most settings. But
Updates will have to be run again, especially SP1; and if you have
drivers that only arrived with that, like USB 2 ones, you will need to
update drivers for the devices concerned. You may find that things like
virtual memory settings and some aspects of appearance have reverted to
defaults
 
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