the fujitsu disk utilities won't boot up i can still access files and most things on that reatogo xpe cd.. what can i try?
so put the recovery cd back in and tried fixmbr and fixboot, and reboot, same problem.. i was having good luck with the tools on the otl xpe cd.....
so far first 2 will not run.. just keeps rebooting..
ok thanks so much for your help.. sounds like this will take the rest of tonight.. i'll keep going and let you know..
it says the parameter is not valid.. it said xp home and this was xp pro... and i put a space after chkdsk /f /r right?
can i run chkdsk from the cd?
I meant pro was working a week ago, not recently.. no safe mode, no restore, no dos prompt.. so reloading xpe cd again..
i am running the reatogo xpe cd with windows now so can do alot, just not sure what to do..
i also accessed some files and got them off the hard drive, that otl cd worked great.
its xp pro and i went to system folder from the xpe cd and search for boot.ini i copied it to the thumb drive. this comp had xp home when it...
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=...
boot.ini does not look like any others i have seen all day today.. i was going to try and make a copy but had a hard time getting it to the usb..
my boot.ini
got the reboot blue screen flash again.. loading cd again
========== OTL ========== Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Seagate Sync Service deleted successfully. Registry key...
sorry i meant 3 partitions, NOT 3 hard drives..
as per last post, i did look at hard disks and there are 3, C,D & E. so am I missing a #2 partition?
most of the searches here say fixmbr or boot.ini or fixboot? i can find boot.ini and it says partition 1 and then next line is partition 3.......
and this is a fujitsu N6200 laptop with win xp pro os
also i did a search of windows and found hal.dll but waiting for instructions from you..
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