XP Repair

Can someone walk me through the repair process for XP? I have booted from the cd and I get to the repair and logon screen but after I give my administrator password it asks me for a prompt. What is the prompt to start the repair/recovery process?
Thanks in advance: Dennis

 

I've done a repair of XP once. It's kind of tricky. If you choose the repair option, it will give you two choices, repair console or automatic. If you let the system do the automatic, it will do a reinstall of XP.
Why do you need to repair, what error messages are you getting that you feel you need to do a repair?

 

Thanks for the reply. I'm getting no error message. Just completely random lockups. No pattern. Sometimes 2-3 times in 10 minutes then works fine for weeks. Only way out is to shut down and restart. Then on restart it does not checkdisc (old scandisc?) just boots and thats it! Happens online or off just at random.
Wanted to try repair but after I type in my administrator password I get a dos prompt: C:\windows but it doesn't say what to type for repair. Never even saw "automatic ".


Thanks: Dennis

 

Sounds like a motherboard heat related problem. Monitor CPU temp and see if you can find a pattern.

 

out of the blue question here, but have you run an error check on drive c? go to my computer, right click on drive C, Tools, Error Checking. Do you have any diagnostics software?

 

You might want to check the reply that I posted to Ossa in the thread entitled "Suggestions for Repairing XP;