Windows Won't Boot

[MisterCornell]

I turned my computer on today, and after the BIOS, instead of Windows XP loading, all I got was a blinking cursor.

I put in one of my Linux live CD's, and the Windows partition seems to be fine. The files all seem to be there. I used another "system rescue boot CD", with various tools on it to check the disk, and CHKDISK didn't report any errors. I also ran an anti-virus utility.

Anyway, how do I fix this?

 

[sandmanwake]

fdisk /mbr <-- did you try this? You might also want to get the data off while you still can; just in case it is the drive that's failing.

 

[mzkhadir]

have you tried to do a default setting in your bios and then boot up to see what happens ?

 

[MisterCornell]

I loaded the windows recovery console (from the Windows XP CD) I ran fixmbr and fixboot. But I still get the same problem with the cursor blinking, when Windows XP should be loading.

This is what my boot.ini says (I am posting from a Linux OS on CD right now):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

My hard disk is less than two months old. I bought it to replace an old one that failed.

 

[deathwalker]

this sounds very much like a driver corruption...i would do a F8 boot and tell it to boot in the vga mode...see if the graphics driver got hosed...have u tried booting in the safe mode?

 

[MisterCornell]

Originally posted by: deathwalker
this sounds very much like a driver corruption...i would do a F8 boot and tell it to boot in the vga mode...see if the graphics driver got hosed...have u tried booting in the safe mode?

Uhhh.. It doesn't get to that point.

After the BIOS, there's just a blinking cursor. There's no Windows loading screens 1 and 2.

 

[deathwalker]

Ok..well..you said "after" bios load.

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: MisterCornell
I loaded the windows recovery console (from the Windows XP CD) I ran fixmbr and fixboot. But I still get the same problem with the cursor blinking, when Windows XP should be loading.

This is what my boot.ini says (I am posting from a Linux OS on CD right now):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

My hard disk is less than two months old. I bought it to replace an old one that failed.

your boot.ini file looks correct.
Have you tried to set default settings in your bios and then restart ?