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XP: Cant boot, normal or safe mode.
Name: peterpotter Date: October 20, 2004 at 03:03:38 Pacific OS: w2k CPU/Ram: PenIII 256
Comment:
I have a boot problem with my Home edition XP machine. During the boot the XP startup hangs. There is a cyclic green moving line during the boot and this stops after a while. The only option is to reset the machine. If I try to boot into safe mode then this also hangs too and all I see on the screen is the cursor on the top left of the screen. I inserted the recover diskette and followed the instructions but I get the same results. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this?
Name: salgolf Date: October 20, 2004 at 06:24:01 Pacific
Reply:
Do you have a dual boot setup? Your headers say you use Windows 2000.
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Response Number 4
Name: peterpotter Date: October 20, 2004 at 06:36:06 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the replies. No I am not running dual boot on my problem machine. It would seem though that I cant get passed the boot stage even using safe mode. Also I do not have the CDs as the OS was delivered at purchase of the PC
Pete
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Response Number 5
Name: wanderer Date: October 20, 2004 at 12:49:35 Pacific
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Ideally you would boot the xp cd and go into recovery console. You can fix the mbr and boot files from there. See if you can get a friend to lend you their xp cd for this purpose.
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