Re: Fails to start

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"John M." wrote

I tried booting up from the Win XP CDROM but when I hit the "R" key, the
message is " A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to
prevent damage to your computer." If I remove the hard drive and put it
another PC, will that PC be able to see a second hard drive or is it to far
gone to attempt at this point?
John M


"Rock" wrote:

"John M." wrote

> My Windows XP Home PC won't load XP. After pressing the on button it > gets
> to
> the XP icon screen where on a good start up the rectangle fills in with
> blue
> boxes. It does this just for a second and than goes to an apology
> screen
> with choices for safemode, safemode with networking or command prompt.
> Nothing works no matter what choice is used. It just repeats this
> sequence
> over and over till i turn it off. Is the hard drive defective?

Do you have a backup of the important data that's on the hard drive? If not
do that first. Put the drive in another working XP or Win2000 computer and
copy the important data. Then put it back in the original computer, boot
from the XP installation CD and take the first R. This will get you to the
recovery console. Select the installation by number. For the password
assume it's blank for the built in Administrator account (this is not the
account with admin privileges you have been using but the built in account
by that name) and just hit enter or tab. If you assigned a password to this
account then enter that.

At the command prompt run chkdsk /p. It will take awhile.

Here is a link on how to use the Recovery Console. You don't need to
install it, just see the section on how to use it if you want to get some
reference into on it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/en-us

After chkdsk runs exit the recovery console, remove the CD and reboot.

If that doesn't do it, run a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm




Whether your hard drive will be readable in another system is hard to say. The only way to know is to try. If it's readable, after copying any important data, run a chkdsk /r from that computer.

I don't understand why you were getting that message when trying to enter the recovery console from the installation boot up. Windows isn't loaded at that point. Are you sure you booted from a regular installation CD and set the boot order in the BIOS for the CD drive to be the first device in the boot order? What message appeared on the screen right before you pressed the R key?

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