Re: Won't boot after repair install

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From: Schrags (Schrags_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:55:02 -0700

Well heres what happened first. I accidently denied registry edits when
ad-whatch poped up. Then that caused me not being able to run exe, lnk, and
reg files. I found a reg file to fix the lnk and exe problem but i couldnt
run reg files also. So i did a repair install, and half way through it it
needed rundll32.exe and could not finish. So i booted into recovery console
and replaced the registry with the repair one, booted, then copied my old
registry from an old system restore. Then i booted and it was back to
normal, everything was working. But then i noticed that there were no tabs
in the display properties box. I searched and found it to be related to
doing a repair install not completing. So i ran another repair install to
finish, and here i am now. Now being able to boot, it just keeps restarting.

"Alex Nichol" wrote:

> Schrags wrote:
>
> >When i try to run in safe mode, it does the same thing. Endless restart loop.
>
> A possible cause - damage to one of two essential boot files. Easy to
> replace; 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.
>
> Give
> COPY D:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\ntdetect.com
>
> (if the other, ntldr, were damaged I think you would have an explicit
> message that it was not found). That assumes it will see the CD drive
> as D, which is probable but not certain
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
>

Relevant Pages

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