Re: Windows XP MCE 2005 Won't Start up Anymore

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When you try SafeMode, you get a list of all drivers as they load. What is
the last driver loaded before it reboots?

I had a hard drive sector go bad on my box a while back. I was able to boot
to the recovery console from the CD, and ran chkdsk /r /p. It was unable to
fix the problem so I ended up having to reload the entire system.
Fortunately, my tv programs had been recorded to D:

Dana Cline - MVP

"richard" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2DF0B11F-27A8-437D-B532-C6071BAE346D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have Windows XP MCE 2005 on my laptop, which was pre-installed and
running
> fine for about 2 months.
>
> Last night, the computer shut down (I believe because of a lack of battery
> power). When I plugged the computer in and went to re-boot, Windows
couldn't
> restart.
>
> Instead the computer displays a message "apologizing for the
incovenience,"
> noting that a problem has occured perhaps because of a change in hardware
or
> software, and then giving me several options for re-booting (e.g., start
> windows normally, start windows the same way it was last successfu, start
> windows in safe mode, etc.). I tried all of these options without
success --
> a blue screen appears with text indicating a problem, but then that screen
> vanishes before I can read it completely, and the computer starts the
cycle
> all over again (i.e., it brings me back to the page "apologizing for the
> incovenience").
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Richard
>
>


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