Windows XP crashed, please help?

Question

Last night, my computer started to behave very strangly. It was continuously trying to read the hard drive for almost 10mins. I had to force turn it off. When I restarted the computer, it came to the windows xp login screen and frozen. Then i restarted again, after a compaq logo, the screen goes blank and it is trying to read the hard drive.

I have dual booting on my pc. Windows xp and linux on the same hard drive which i partitioned in this way: 10GB to linux and 90GB to Windows. Linux is working properly. When I boot in linux and try to access c:\, the moment i go to the c:\windows\system32 folder, it freezes and after some time gives an error saying cannot access hard drive. It shows a few files in system32 folder but not all.

Please help.

Thankyou

The only thing I am really worried about is that I have an exam on Tuesday and everyting is on my laptop. If i loose data, it will be a major problem. Is there any way i don't loose my data. I just need to backup the data and then format the hard drive.

I have started the Recovery console about 5 hours ago wher i started the CHKDSK /R command and still its on 65%. Is it a bad sign?

Answer 1

If Linux is working proprely... can't you access you data from there and copy it on a CD?

Why do you try to go in c:\windows\system32 from Linux?

There is only one thing I know for sure...
If you have a hard drive failure and you want to recover your data, there is only one way to do it.

Buy a new hard drive...re-install your operating system... install the bad hard drive as slave and copy the data from it on your new hard drive. Once you have saved all your data...try to format the bad hard drive...if it won't format...toss it.
If it is a large hard drive, you might be able to partition it and isolate the fault by creating a partition where the fault is and not formatting that partition.

Answer 2

That message without working equipment discovered is oftentimes displayed after restarting the computing device (the default boot loader did no longer locate an working equipment on the computing device). to repair this, place the XP domicile installation cd in the force, and boot the computing device with it. choose restoration console and whilst the prompt is accessible type fdisk mbr (this might recofnigure the boot loader to run domicile windows). does no longer recommend it gets XP returned on the right song.... added info are welcomed.

Answer 3

Here is the best answer...you will need a high speed ISP and a CD Burner that can burn bootup iso files. download Knoppix. it run off the cd so no installing is required. Run knoppix and save the files to a removable drive.

Answer 4

sounds like you got a corrupted hard drive, maybe its jsut the data or the thing is dying. a clean format is always the solution to computer problems.

Answer 5

I think that you have a Windows readdressing issue!

Turn your system on to boot into windows and just leave it!

I am talking about leaving it for houre, even over night!

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Answer 6

ok just check to see if your hard drive is not loose. aslo you may need to use a boot disk or start up disk which you would have had to already made.

Answer 7

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