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DAMNIT. Windows just died.

I dual boot. x86 is dead, x64 works, but I have x64 cuz I have nothing installed. I guess this means..

No BF2
No Warcraft 3
No OC/24/whatever I wanna watch
No fvcking around.

=(

What the hell.
 
Originally posted by: d2arcturus
Are we supposed to help you?

Yes that would be nice... It died as in it refuses to boot. Gets to boot selection screen

1) XP 32-bit
2) XP 64-bit

hit enter for #1 and screen goes blank. system reboots immediately.

I was downloading on BT for the last 48 hours. My system has not restarted since Sunday. This morning I decided to give it a break since I was done anyways so I shut down (properly) and now boom.
 
Can you access the partition from the XP64 partition? Try checking the logs of the non-booting partition.

If not, I guess try F8 for safe mode? Should still prompt what partition to load. If it fails, do it again but logged.
 
Definitely. F8. failed.

I'm about to reinstall 32-bit XP. If I reinstall, is it possible to copy the boot.ini over? I'll be reformatting the 32-bit XP partition to make sure all this crap disappears.
 
Do you have Ghost or something? I've used that and Ghost Explorer to restore critical files (bookmarks/favorites, music, docs, game saves, etc.) from dead partitions before.

At worst, maybe you could try a parallel install and just copy stuff over.
 
Data? I'm not worried at all. Except if the HD is physicall fvcked.

C: Windows 32-bit
D: XP 64
E: Data
F: Data

2nd HD has almost a mirror of the first except about a month older. Worst is the whole 250GB HD dies and I lose Family Guy, 24, The OC, but none of my MP3s because they're not only on my old 160gb (the 2nd HD) but also on my laptop.

Umm I lose 1 thing and that's like 2 weeks of AIM logs which I don't care about..

I'm just wondering if copying boot.ini over is safe (the old boot.ini). It only had like 4 lines anyways.... My Windows installations are relatively clean. This one has only been 1.5 months old. Shouldn't be hell to lose somet hings
 
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