Can't boot up...

WinXP on a Dell 4300. Can't boot up. It goes to black & white screen with options to boot to safe-mode, last good boot, etc. Safe mode brings up a long list of commands, none of which make sense to me. "Last Good..." and "Open normally" just take you around again. Just B4 it goes to the XP screen, a Blue-Screen of Death appears for a micro-second. So fast I can't read it. Finally it goes to the blk & why screen. Any suggestions?

 

'round & 'round we go

No. It just keeps goin' 'round...

 

NT Admin

Did you try to repair from recovery console yet. Boot with XP CD and when press option R, which is for repair corrupted OS, the select windows Dir, which is usaully 1 (if you do not doual boot). It will ask you admin password, make sure it is recovery admin password, if you do not know the password, hit enter with out typeing anything. Let me know if it will take you next step. If you are not able to log into windows recovery consol, then you must have ERD Commander (very expensive piece of software, get a copy from your friend or) and boot your pc with it and restore to a back date.
Hopefuly you be ok.

 

"And the beat goes on... "

OK. I did that. Here's what I have now:

CHKDSK found one or more errors on volume.
78140128 KB total disk space
42985884 KB are available
4096 bytes in each allocation unit
19535032 total allocation units on disc
10746471 allocation units available on disk
(C-prompt)

 

Huzzah !!!

Pete, that last bit of advice (Post # 6) actually worked like a charm, only I didn't know it! When it got to the c-prompt I just left it & went on to work. When I got home, I read your final post (#7). I re-booted the pc and SHAZAM!!! I got it all back. Needless to say, I'm presently doing a complete system AV scan. Thanks for all your help... BTW, in W98 one could make a "Boot-Disk ". Can one be made in XP, or is it necessary at all? Regards.

 

My friend, do the following and U be fine, trust me,

Boot with recovery option and change to c: dirive, like

c:\windows> cd.. (hit enter) you will be at
C:\> (then give the following commands)

C:\>ATTRIB -H C:BOOT.INI
C:\>ATTRIB -R C:BOOT.INI
C:\>ATTRIB -S C:BOOT.INI
C:\DEL BOOT.INI

THEN GIVE THIS COMMAND it will rebuilt Boot.ini and other system settings.
C:BOOTCFG /REBUILD

It will scan all hard drives, and will say scan successful.

Very imortent, do the following 2 things when the scan process finish,
Add installation to boot list? (Yes/No?All): Y
1-Enter Load Identifire: Windows XP Home Edition
2-Enter OS Load options: /fastdetect

Then run CHKDSK /R , CHKDSK /F also give the following command,
C:\>FIXBOOT if it ask you yes or No, just hit Y.
You will be back in windows my friends.

 

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