RE: Unable To BOOT

From: mljk (mljk_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:13:04 -0800

Thanks for posting a reply HackerAce.

If I could turn back the time I would have made a backup 

I was so careful with XP that I didn’t even update to service pack 2.

I did try to do the recovery console, but it is stuck at C:

Just to let you know I did boot with a WINDOWS ME startup disk, entered in
dos and did a Scandisk; in doing that it found and I fixed several misreading
there.

Of course that did not solve my problem.

Can you please guide me through the steps of Recovery?

Thanks.

"mljk" wrote:

> Basically I get the following error message….
>
> Missing or
> C:\windows.000\system\vm32.vxd
> C:\windows.000\ifshlp.sys
> Wininit.exe missing/unable to load
>
>
> To make it short…..
>
> I have as my operating system… Windows XP Pro upgrade
> (From full version of WINDOWS ME) FAT32.
>
>
> I was recording a live vocal in Samplitude, when the Monitor Screen went
> BLACK, I heard the music in the background, but could not see the picture, so
> I pulled the plug and tried to restart it.
>
> The video was breaking up when I went into the bios to see if everything was
> normal there, and they were.
>
> However I can’t get to operating system.
>
> Hitting F8 gets me to the option to boot in Safe Mode, however after
> selecting Safe Mode the next screen gives me the ERRORS above, and I can’t
> get past it.
>
>
> I do music only on that computer, I don’t have and MODEM/NIC installed.
> All my software is legally bought.
>
>
> Can someone, can anyone please help me and my situation?
>
>
> Thank you very much.
> Marcus Kemp
>

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