re: Windows XP start-up disk. HELP!!!!
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 8:32 pm
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Posted by chicagojoel
(12 messages posted)
I have used windows 98 bootdisks on all versions of windows in order to get to the
command line and have cd support. I was here 10 minutes ago and was about to tell
you use it and run chkdsk from dos. I decided to try before suggesting it to you.
It does work, but the floppy, and I guess XP as well needed scandisk. Anyway, I
ran scandisk on my C drive, found no errors. It offered surface scan as well. If
I were in your shoes, that's what I'd do--run scandisk by booting up off a win98
bootdisk. (It's only one disk and super fast by comparison the the 6 XP needs.)
If the scandisk program finds errors, say yes and let it fix them. If it doesn't
find errors, run the surface scan that it will offer--hopefully your problem isn't
the surface. Lastly, in a worst case scenario you will have to buy a replacement
recovery cd from your cpu maker, although when I lost mine, during a move, I was
surprised to find that they sell them on eBay. You'll have to call microsoft and
tell them what happened, but as far as I know they make a limited charge for a new
registration--all this assumes you have a key sticker or owners manual with the 25
character key to provide to them. If all this sounds a little daunting--booting
into dos, etc. Don't let it spook you. Here's a link to ease your worries http://www.pcdon.com/page82.html this
is probably one of the easiest to understand pages on scandisk that I've seen in
a while. The main thing is that Don tells how to get your problem fixed.
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 1:32 am, Barbara wrote:
>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
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