Is C:/windows showing on the screen after F8?

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No. That screen you speak of (with the windows prompt) sounds like the screen I got at the very start of this mess when I ignorantly deleted the 'Profiles' file. This is what I get now: After "I agree" F8, the blue setup win screen with options - to setup windows on the selected partition, press ENTER to create a partition on the unpartitioned space, press C to delete the selected partition, press D Then it shows the path: C: Partition 1 [Unknown] 28616MB (28615Free Now if I let it boot normal without the CD it boots to a screen which gives you options like 'Safe mode', 'prompt in safe mode' but no matter what I choose it brings me to a blue screen which says UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME I know it's difficult and sometimes frustrating helping someone trouble shoot a pc without actually being there, THANKS CLOVER ! What I'm thinking att this point is connect the laptop to my desktop with a crossover cable to retrieve the biz stuff and then just format it and start from scratch- would I need a hub or anything else ? Just a crossover cable ? ANTEC Case Belkin UPS ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Athlon 2500+ ARCTIC SILVER Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition HSF 1Gig DDR Crucial Ram XFX Geforce4 128 Win xp pro

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I just rerbered that typing in capitols is like yelling, that wasn't what I was doing Clover. I was putting emphasis on Thanking You. kevin ANTEC Case Belkin UPS ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Athlon 2500+ ARCTIC SILVER Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition HSF 1Gig DDR Crucial Ram XFX Geforce4 128 Win xp pro, Firefox, Foxmail Temp 35º

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remembered ANTEC Case Belkin UPS ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Athlon 2500+ ARCTIC SILVER Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition HSF 1Gig DDR Crucial Ram XFX Geforce4 128 Win xp pro, Firefox, Foxmail Temp 35º

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You could try rebuilding the boot.(To replace the C:\WINDOWS so you can repair. Boot from disc.Hit R for recovery console. When it asks for admin password just hit enter if no password was set. Type in bootcfg /rebuild It will say add installation to boot disk Type y , enter It will then say enter load identifier type C:\WINDOWS hit enter It will then say enter OS load options type /fastdetect reboot it should now be listed for the repair option. If you have problems with admin password to only way to clear the password is to remove the cmos battery on the motherboard.

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you can also try fixboot and fixmbr in recovery console. using a crossover cable I think the two machines have to be switched on.i have done this procedure therefore I cant really say. Only way I know would work is to get a "drive caddy" that will take 2.5 inch drive i.e laptop hard drive. you take the hard drive out plug it into the caddy then connect via USB to your running p.c

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I think the HD is toast along with the LCD. Hard drives are so cheap I'll just buy one and an LCD and fix this. Thanks again, I tried everything you said and I managed to get into windows in safe mode but most files were missing and the ones that were there were unreadable. TOAST! ANTEC Case Belkin UPS ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Athlon 2500+ ARCTIC SILVER Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition HSF 1Gig DDR Crucial Ram XFX Geforce4 128 Win xp pro, Firefox, Foxmail Temp 35º

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You are welcome. well you can still format that drive and retrieve say 95% of what was on it. get back if u want info how to do it.Its easy.

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Or you can just do this. Take the harddrive out of the laptop. Buy a converter cable (laptop harddrives have 4 less prongs because they use a different power source) and hook it up to your pc. If you have Win XP or Win 2k, you can look at the harddrive (win XP will auto detect the new hardware) and retrieve what files you need off of it. Then just reformat the whole harddrive, install XP or whatever operating system on it, and then put the files back on. Unless you feel like spending hours trying to pull off old profile information, then just get what you can and remake it. Good luck.

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