*FIXED* Need help, T-storm screwed my comp

[HonkeyDonk]

Ok, so my comp was working fine until tonight. I'm posting from my laptop right now.

Anyways, there was a thunderstorm and of course a few power outages. Well, the storm is over now and I tried to restart my comp and it will show the windows xp logo but after about maybe 10 sec of booting up, it will restart.

My comp was on when the surge hit and it turned off my comp. So I don't know what to do. I have important files on that HD and I can't seem to find anyway to recover the files.

I have my WinXP CD here and I thought I could do a recovery install or something, but there is nothing of the sort. There is a recovery for installations that failed, and I tried just reinstalling windows, hopeing to just overwrite, but the CD insists on reformatting the HD first.

I tried a win98 boot up disk to see if I could go into DOS and copy the necessary files, but when I do, it doesn't show the HDs.

I am completely out of ideas of what to do. I don't have another HD to use. I'm guessing there's just one bad file or something that's making Windows XP not boot up correctly.

Is there a software or something or anything that could help me recover my stuff or somehow boot into windows?

Please help, I would greatly appreciate it!!!!

Thanks!

My System:

Win XP SP2
1.6A Northwood
1gb Crucial Ram
9600XT
120GB HD (OS)
300GB HD (Data, can't reformat)
Audigy 2 ZS
Soyo P4I-Fire Dragon MOBO

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Ok, after much reading/searching online, I fixed it.

What I did was I went through the Win XP CD recovery thing again, and in the C:\, I typed chkdsk. Before, I went thru the recovery and I typed "dir" to check my directory and it said "An error occurred during directory enumeration". I guess doing the chkdsk fixed whatever problem there was (probably a corrupted ntfs.sys file).

It found 1 error and I rebooted and it booted fine. Strange.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Having had lightning take out a few computer components (among other things) in Sept. 2003, I now use UPS's on any and all computers. I had one comp of three with a UPS at the time and it was the only one to come out unscathed.

Glad you got it fixed, now get a UPS.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Having had lightning take out a few computer components (among other things) in Sept. 2003, I now use UPS's on any and all computers. I had one comp of three with a UPS at the time and it was the only one to come out unscathed.

Glad you got it fixed, now get a UPS.

def. will now