XP won't boot

[MrBreeze]

Hiya!

I have XP Pro in my laptop. When I try to boot up, it gets to the blue screen with the little Windows XP logo on it then it just sits there. I can't boot in safe mode either. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-=Rob

 

[mattjurado]

Have you tried the option to restore the last known good configuration?

Matt J.

 

[MrBreeze]

Yeah, same thing.

I just booted with a boot disk to a command prompt. When I do a "dir" at the end it gives me "Extended error 1,928"

-=Rob

 

[SYAR2003]

If you have the XP CD.
boot from it

How to:
Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer.

Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted to do so.
When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
When you are prompted to do so, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.


In recovery console , do:
chkdsk /r

(this can take some minutes)

exit
(exits the recovery console and reboot the pc)

 

[bcastner]

This is a BIOS error message.

Is this an IBM laptop?

 

[linney]

An easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer due to corrupt registry.

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/cw_boot_toot.htm

http://www.mediaworkstation.com/htm/homeset1.htm

Click on Tutorial then the Charlie White article on XP crash.
This is a laymans version of Q307545 in simple language.


If they don't work you could try repairing windows itself by running it over itself. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP (Q315341)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q315/3/41.asp

 

[MrBreeze]

It's a Dell. Naturally the floppy is acting up and it has an external cd-rom which I'm trying to get to work. I'll try your ideas, thanks!

-=Rob

 

[MrBreeze]

OK, here's the problem.

My floppy is giving me an disk i/o error and my cd-rom drive is a Backpack parallel drive. I have it set up through the docking station. Is there anyway to boot via a network or am I hosed?

Never let your Dad borrow your perfectly working laptop :-(

-=Rob

It's a CSX H500xt if that helps any.

 

[bcastner]

Use the XP boot floppies, and pray that you do not get further disk errors from the floppy drive:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

This should let you into the Recovery Console.

 

[MrBreeze]

Ok, the floppy drive is hosed completely. I bought a cd rom drive. I put it into the docking station. Bios recognizes that it's there, I set it as my boot drive, put in Windows XP, and STILL get an error saying there is no bootable disk.

I have no idea here.

 

[MrBreeze]

OK, I got a new floppy drive and with the recovery console, I got it up and working, thanks for all the suggestions!


One problem I'm having is that if I change a cd (in the docking station), it will not recognize the new cd until I reboot. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-=Rob

 

[linney]

Incorrect Contents Are Displayed in Windows Explorer (Q314939)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q314/9/39.asp

If it isn't mentioned here "it don't exist"

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread/t-52565.html

cd burning program that comes with xp
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