Windows 2K booting problems on Xmas Morning

[Shawn28]

Hi there, hope everyone is having a good Christmas so far.

My problem "today" is that i can't get into windows. The computer is constantly doing a "rebooting cycle". It will get past the "windows is now starting" screen, and then it will breifly show the desk top, then quickly reboot again.


Now, i had my computer on for about 2 weeks straight, and decided to turn it off yesterday evening. This morning, when i gave the computer a quick boot, i noticed that windows had to check my main drive for "consistancy". It began to delete all these files, and then the rebooting cycle began.


I'm currently running windows 2k pro, and was actually planning on reformating sometime this week, but it just kills me because there are some things that i want to back up, before i take the plunge.


Anyways, i know this post has turned over into a big story, i was just wondering if anybody out there has any suggestions?

P.S


I tried booting into various safe modes, and i get all the same responses?


I'm gonna trying booting into windows with the cd (now) and see what happens.


Any suggestions would be awsome.


Thanks!

 

[h2]

<< i noticed that windows had to check my main drive for "consistancy". It began to delete all these files, and then the rebooting cycle began >>>

never seen that before, I think a virus was checking your drives and deleting your OS data on boot, that's consistent virus behavior, set to run automatically in registry, but you didn't see it happen because you didn't reboot.

It looks like a system file was deleted maybe, tough luck, not a nice xmas present.

Hopefully you weren't using norton utilities, that's also behavior I've seen from it.

If you can't get anything working, try and see if windows recovery will find and replace your missing files, that's booting off the w2k install disk, running r , do a manual m recovery, not the console c mode, This probably won't work but it's worth a try.

You can also try creating some antivirus recovery disks and run norton on the machine from floppies, can't stand norton but that might give you more info.