Summary: I would try running the recovery console from an XP CD and then selecting fixboot and fixmbr. Hopefully that will allow you to boot into the C drive. ...
Summary: my friends xp wont load after the log in screen. all you see is the back ground image, and nothing else. the computer does nothing from this point. an...
Summary: Hi someone please help. I just installed a new motherboard and processor. It wont boot w/ HDD. It will only boot with the cd and the 1st boot device. ...
Summary: My boyfriend just tried installing a new 200gb seagate hd into our computer(he built the computer himself). Now when we try to boot it up it says "dis...
Summary: I had to change my motherboard, and also changed the memmories. I've set it all, but now XP doenst boot anymore, it freezes in a black screen. what sh...
Summary: Hi again... thanks for answering. I already deleted Win98 partition (aiming to get back to the original disk status). Now, XP boots but won't go furth...
Summary: Hi everyone, nice forum. I bet i have found more answers that worked from a simple Google search referencing this forum then any other LoL. My problem...
Summary: I had a problem with my C-Media sound card installation so I decided to uninstall it and let windows xp automatically pick it up. After I did that it ...
Summary: how would i tranfer the files to the other hard drive if i cant get into windows with it? do i even need to be able to if its the slave? wont it caus...
Summary: OK so I pressed F8 at start up and went into safe mode I then selected Windows XP pro from the list (its the only 1 on the list) and i pressed retur...
Summary: Within the last week, my pc took about 3 minuites to load up. That isn't normal, it usual took like 30 seconds max. So what i did was formatted my h...
Summary: ok, so i was using my computer during a bad storm, ok, im a moron and ive done it many times before. so this one strike of lightning hits real hard an...
Summary: I have 2 copies of XP Pro installed, on a multiboot. I wanted to install Linux too, so I got me a boot manager (PowerQuest BootMagic 8) and installed ...
Summary: Hiya, Im posting here for a friend, but as they know almost nothing about computers I'll prob. be doing what ever you suggest. I'm not a PC expert, ...
Summary: My laptop running xp hangs on booting after it loads Mup.sys. It also hangs when I boot from the windows cd, so I have no idea how to fix this, unless...
Summary: HELP! I dunno what this is but it's a beauty. Starting XP from boot results in Windows immediately logging off. This process keeps continuing on every...
Summary: Hi, My friend installed SP2 on their comp then rebooted and all was fine, however when they shut it down and restarted it will not boot.They say it wo...
Summary: After i updated from micrsoft onto my windows xp system, i am unable to get windows to start up. It gets to the log-in screen and my keyboard and usb ...
Summary: i cannot boot to xp...and i was trying to backup files.. now it wont even boot to safe mode. it hangs on the xp loading screen and restarts. can i rei...
Summary: Deleted Linux OS on separate partition. Merged partitions into one with Partition Magic 7. GRUB loader looks for Linux OS still. Can't load to XP. Tri...
Summary: Here it goes: I have to partions one was FAT32 the other NTFS. I just converted the FAT32 partion to NTFS and put XP on it. Now I have XP on both NT...
Summary: Hi all, My PC specs are: P4 2.4GHz 512DDR 20G HDD (D: drive) 2.5G HDD (C: drive) I have recently purchased a new PC and I only had one harddisk in it ...
Summary: There isnt any info gone, its all still there, but intsead it was as if I just installed xp, and there were only the basic shortcuts...all of the p...
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