re: Can't get Windows XP to start
Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 10:31 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike Gruich
(1 messages posted)
I have also seen this, recently with new XP updates that hit my office. Several people
shut down the auto update during the install and were left with the same error.
Could not log in, admin password bad, last known good did not work, and no "safe
mode"
Here is the fix!
Get your XP CD and boot from it
Do not go into recovery console, choose "Set Up"
Hit F8 (only after reading all the mumbo jumbo!)
Choose Repair, "R"
WindowsXP will then copy the installation files to your Hard Drive, whole thing takes
about 45 minutes or so.
It runs similar to SYSPREP, you will need to put a CD KEY in, but all settings should
remain in tact. If you are on a domain, don't choose it from the setup. Wait until
after (it should retain this anyway, you might not have to put this in).
The only problem I found was that my ADMIN TOOLS needed to be reinstalled for Active
Directory.
Let me know if this helps!
Mike
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 4:00 pm, BPM wrote:
>Whenever I start my computer, I get this error:
>
>xmnt2001 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK
>autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK
>
>Then the screen blinks, and then I get this:
>
>STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error}
>The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a
>status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000).
>The system has been shut down.
>
>I'm typing this from another computer, BTW. Any idea as to how t
>o fix this?
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