Re: XP pro won't restart or recover

Hi!

Wow, thanks for the fast response and sure appreciate you checking this out
on your own computer first.... (as long as you didn't have to crash it the
way mine did)

So I tried out what you suggested - here are the results:

I booted up with the Windows XP CD in the DVD drive and got the Welcome to
Setups window with Setups loaded. This is where the screen says
ENTER=install, F3=repair and something else for quit.

I wasn't totally sure what you meant by "go back to recovery console" so
tried two things:

1) I hit enter for install - and the computer went straight to the partition
screen which I exited out of

2) then I booted up again and this time hit F3 for repair

This time I got a black DOS screen - I hit ENTER right away and got a list
of key boards to select. No password prompt.

I went back to the DOS screen and hit ENTER again but the only thing that
came up was C:\>

At this point I entered the command CHKDSK /R and hit ENTER and let it run

After about a minute or so, it displayed the message I was getting before as
per my earlier message "The volume appears to contain one or more
unrecoverable problems" (Aaargh!)

Okay, I kept going and typed in EXIT and hit ENTER and then removed the
Windows XP CD to let the computer boot without the CD

But....instead of booting, it defaulted back to the black screen that says
it's booting from CD and to press any key... which I did but of course with
no CD in the drive, it read "disk error" and then said to "press
Ctl-Alt-Delete" to restart. I did that several times through and got the
same response

Then I went into set ups to see if I could change something in the BIOS and
ended up leaving it as is because I didn't really know what to do so
cancelled out without changing or saving anything

So now I'm back to a screen that says its trying to boot from CD and to hit
Ctl-Alt-Delete to restart.

Any idea what's going wrong here and what to do or check?

I'll be here at the office for several more hours so if you or someone else
sees this and knows what to do, please message as I'll keep checking.

Thanks!


"thecreator" wrote:

Hi Eva,

Insert the Windows XP CD. Make sure that the CD-Rom is booted first. After the Setup is loaded go back to the Recovery Console. Hit Enter for the Password.

At the prompt, type chkdsk /r and hit Enter. Do not remove the Windows XP CD, while it is running. When done, type Exit and hit Enter and now remove the Windows XP CD and try booting into Windows.

I saw your plea earlier for Help, but wanted to try my suggestion, before giving it. It runs and fixes the Hard Drive.


--
thecreator


"Eva" <Eva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9B7AB6B1-A371-414D-ADA0-620F7F562EAB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After power outage yesterday when I turned my pc on it started to boot and
went to the screen asking for safe mode, safe mode with command prompt etc,
including the option to do last configuration. I tried all 5 option with no
results. It goes to the windows logo and then there's stops and reboots
itself. In between all there are various screens including a blue screen
that flashes by faster than it can be read. So I tried booting with my
installation disk and get to windows setup window and go to repair. I do
chkdsk c: and chkdsk c: /p and /r and various other iterations of that. It
doesn't seem to really check anything but after a little pause, gives a
message that there is one or more operations - or similar wording -
unrecoverable. Then I reboot and at the windows setup I hit enter to
install Windows XP so I can repair it. But it doesn't even look for another
installed OS, it goes straight to the window asking to choose a partition and
gives one choice which is c: partition1 [unknown] and lists the size as that
of my hard drive. When I hit that it next goes to format -- at which point I
exited as I don't wish to format or lose the files on my hard drive.

Can someone help me here? Right now I have no idea what to do next to
salvage my programs and files. I've got some very important files on my c:
drive that I can't afford to lose.

My computer techie doesn't think it's hopeful but wants to try and put in
another hard drive and then see if he can recover the files that way.

Any other ideas on what to do here?

If any one does, please help. Thanks!



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