re: Windows XP start-up disk. HELP!!!!
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 1:32 am
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Posted by Barbara
(6 messages posted)
My computer won't let me do anything except start up the 6 disks I downloaded and
I only hit enter and if I hit anything else it like I didn't do anything.
It won't command to anything and no disks except those 6 start-up disk and then it
wants the CD and I don't have that one. I have been trying to get windows to open
even in safe mode so I can have my windows go back and start last month as this one
has it which is why I bought the stupid thing.
Barbara
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 12:29 am, chicagojoel wrote:
>Sounds like you need to put a windows startup disk in so you can check the partition
>and run scandisk. For troubleshooting you need an XP bootdisk(s)
>
>Let the floppy load up cd drivers etc. and when the command prompt comes up type
>diskpart and hit enter. Once in diskpart, just manipulate your way to the partition
>menu and make sure that the C is still set as the active partition. If C is NOT
>active, and in almost all cases it should be, then set it as the active partition--or
>know why it should not be your active partition--and exit diskpart, then reboot
you
>computer. If C is already set as active, then see if you can run chkdsk. If these
>two programs sound familiar they are...they both harken back to win NT --their win98
>counterparts were fdisk and scandisk. If XP finds errors and offers to fix them,
>let it.
>
>If the bootdisk and diagnostics don't get you going, you can enter you bios/cmos
>and check that, but I doubt that has changed. However, some systems will only boot
>from an A drive unless you enter bios and tell them to boot off the cd drive. Under
>a worst case scenario, you could bootup on the xp cd and attempt diagnostics and
>or a reinstall that way. Also, new machines will boot off the XP cd if you have
>it in the drive on booting up. The xp cd, if it's like 2000 PRO, will offer to
>repair the previous install. The problem you are having sounds a lot like a corrupted
>file, and XP will find and fix it for you.
>
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