Posted on 03/02/2008 3:52:23 PM PST by Chickensoup
Help!
Came home last night. Turned on the trusty computer and up came a long message, white on black saying: We apologize for the inconvience but Windows did not start successflly... with several option to start.
None of them work.
It then loops to the windows xp screen
Then to an ad for the mainboard
then to a scan devices screen
then to some sort of listing
This morning there was a listing that on each line named had a number of the programs I run at the end of each line. It has not come up this time.
The hard disk comes on for the main board screen and the listing screen
Thank you
BUMP. The hand speaks truth.
Just for the heck of it, try last known. If that doesn’t work, do it again and go into safe mode & do a chkdsk.
I had the exact same problem 2 days ago. I see at least one other person here has the same problem. Nothing worked for me. I’m using my old computer. If you solve the problem, please let us know how you did it.
The cd that came with it is lost. I am not sure where...although I have my ideas...
so are you saying that I can use the XP pro as a boot cd as long as I do not reformat the disc? do I have a choice or is this something I am supposed to know how to stop from happening.
One beep and then to the windows xp screen
the scan screen
then to the inconvenience screen
then looping
from post 19 am typing as fast as I can.
What’s so wrong with the computer you’re using NOW?
Boot from whatever you have. Click R to repair. Run CHKDSK first. If you have a CD you don’t need to lose your data.
there were times when I did this several times per day. still use the old hard drives for data storage.
Over the years I threw out three or four drives (and all their contents) at the insistance of dell techs before my warranty finally ran out and I had to figure it out myself.
I can use this computer
How do I copy it off?
I have dvd r’s would they work?
Nothing except it doesnt have all the important programs, information, email or the internet usually, I rolled it in here to contact you.
Do you have ANY Linux “Live” cd? Run it, it won’t install or change anything. You can get on your network and the internet. If you get on your network, you can copy off your data.
Lacking anything else, do you have an old hard drive around?
Use some other machine to download Ultimate Boot CD image (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/), then burn a CD and try to boot your failing machine from it.
You are telling me to boot from the XP pro disk not the disk that came with the computer right?
BUMP. First step.
last known good config
There it is.
If you can get into that screen your problem is solved.
I picked up some type of trojan that the computer refused to allow to load into memory, and it would flash a millisecond error screen and then loop off.
At startup I hit delete several timesto go into CMOS setup then made the CD drive the first boot option, then used the XP CD to check the disk and remove the malicious program.
After that I reset the boot options and most everything was okay.
If you have to use the XP CD you don’t have to reformat anything, you just re install the windows program.
This keeps your data.
If nothing else works, you get another drive and slave the faulty one to it and copy all of your data to it.
You can’t copy programs and make them work without reinstalling them, but this sounds a bit extreme unless your drive has gone South, and then you normally don’t get as far as you have.
I cant get there bill
I dont have the generic disc, I have only the xp pro disc
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