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Destop Booting problem

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jai6638

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Hey...I have a compaq desktop with Windows Xp Home, amd athlon 1800 and a 100 gb Western Digital hard drive. I was running Disk Cleanup and while it was compressing the files, it froze on me. I tried using Ctrl Alt Del but to no avail. I had to turn it off from the power switch.. When i tried starting it again, it displays an option to start using safe mode or to boot normally... I tried safe mode but it brought me back to the same screen.> I tried the other options but they all bring me back to the same screen .....

Any idea whats wrong?!


Thanks much.
 
cant get into safe mode. the same screen is the screen which asks for how you want to boot and gives the following options:

Safe mode
Safe mode using networking
Safe mode using command prompt
Last known working config
Normal

I tried all but to no avail...

There is no boot into VGA mode option

I used f8 and in the menu the shows up, there is an option called ENABLE VGA MODE.. you want me to click on that?

thanks much..
 
nope.... i dont get the command prompt screen so cant use the above... i can access the BIOS though ( dunno if that helps.. ) ... any idea what could be wrong?
 
It is a possibility that some files on your drive have been mucked up due to the system rebooting whilst file compression was going on.
If you are lucky, you might be able to do a system repair -
Boot from your xp cd, at the SECOND time it asks you if you want to repair your installation, say yes, and let it do its work - other wise, unless you want to slave the drive into another system, I would try CHKDSK c: /f to see if some sense could be made out of the disorder on your hdd.

Have you got much #valuable# data on the drive?
 
Originally posted by: montag451
It is a possibility that some files on your drive have been mucked up due to the system rebooting whilst file compression was going on.
If you are lucky, you might be able to do a system repair -
Boot from your xp cd, at the SECOND time it asks you if you want to repair your installation, say yes, and let it do its work - other wise, unless you want to slave the drive into another system, I would try CHKDSK c: /f to see if some sense could be made out of the disorder on your hdd.

Have you got much #valuable# data on the drive?
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hmmm dont have an XP cd per se... Got a Compaq recovery cd lying around probably.. gonna have to search for it.... dont have any other system to use it on.. How would i try chkdisk since i do not get the command prompt window ......

With regards to valuable data, my stuff is all backed up although my sister in law uses the computer and am not sure if its backed up.... why? you recommend formatting it?

thanks much...
 
WHat does the recovery console do? does it format the computer? Also, cant cd's be used? i can probably set the boot priority to CD's first so taht it could boot from the cd.....

From what i read from the article, it seems like it reinstalls windows xp... hmmm... I guess i have no other option but to format it ( its high time too.. lol.. i havent formatted it for the past 5 years )

thanks much..
 
Originally posted by: montag451
Recovery console will give you a chance to do the chkdsk - IT WONT format unless you tell it to!
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I see... Could I burn it onto a cd and then boot from the cd ? ( if i set the desktop to boot first from cd? )

EDIT: nevrmind. I guess thats not possible since it asks me which drive do i want to create the FLOPPY disks on.... shall try and source it from a friend else I guess my only option is to format... Hopefully formatting does not screw anything else up. dont think it should..
 
Formatting will wipe everything off your hard drive.
If you consider that to be what you want, then that won't screw up anything more than might be screwed up anyway.

Reinstall - please post back with how it goes.
Good luck
 
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