re: Can't get Windows XP to start
Monday, December 15, 2003 at 11:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Zeashan
(1 messages posted)
I had a similar problem on my dell laptop. Luckily it was a dual boot and I was able
to boot into linux to solve the problem. apparently, for me at least, my drive fs
type was changed, not the actual structure, but just what it reports, so instead
of ntfs it was hfbs/ntfs or something.. i used cfdisk to change it back to ntfs,
rebooted, everything was gravy.
On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 10:31 am, Mike Gruich wrote:
>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
>
>
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