Re: XP Boot Problem

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Not so! There is a forth option among the three you mentioned. It is to do a
system restore. You get there by clicking (I think) safe mode, but after the
screen changes you choose system restore instead.
"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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Quote: "I have a problem where I can not boot my PC. It keeps coming up
with the
screen that shows how you want to boot. Normal, Safe mode, Last good, etc.
Done of those options work. "

"Done" in that last line, is a typo for "None". "None of those options
work."

That leaves booting to the Repair Console (on an installation CD.)

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Gary S. Terhune
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"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In one of the options, normal, safe mode or last good SR can be selected
and run.
"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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Gotta be able to get into the system in order to run SR. OP started out
by stating that system cannot be accessed via any mode (except, I
suppose, the Restore Console using an installation CD, but you can't do
a SR from there.)

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you tried a restore?
"rick s" <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a problem where I can not boot my PC. It keeps coming up with
the
screen that shows how you want to boot. Normal, Safe mode, Last
good,etc.
Done of those options work. I took the hard drive out and put it in my
other
PC as a slave. When I boot my other PC it wants to run chkdsk on the
other
hard drive. When I let it run it gets thru the first section ok then
it
starts the second it comes out with the following message over and
over
again.
Inserting an index entry into index $0 of file 32.
It never stops.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rick










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