XP not booting?

Question

hi my cpu is one of those double things where it has 2 operating systems and side 1 is windows XP and side 2 is windows 2000 i can acess windows 2000 fine but XP suddenly gives me a blue screen after a power outage and i suspect it had somthing to do with the registry because it was never good anyway i tried to boot from the disk to fix it but it wont do that for some reason can anyone help me? i want to play WoW again!!!! oh and if you need to know wat cpu it is its a dell dimension L733r

ive tried starting it in safe mode and last good configuration but nothing changed but it wont boot from cd

Answer 1

Boot the PC in Safe mode (holding F8 down during startup)
Choose last good configuration. Let the computer rebuild the registry to that point that things were working correctly. It should reboot by itself or you do it afterwards. Try it then.
Also, when you get back into Windows 2K or XP set up the machine to choose XP first, if you have not already.

Answer 2

First of all, its not the CPU that is the double thing, its your hard drive that allows you to have two operating systems. It's called dual booting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_boot. The blue screen is called a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). This happens when Windows has a critical system error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death. Write down the error code (ex. 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) and google it. There might be other people who had the problem and solved it. Also while booting up hit F8 repeatedly until you see a screen that gives you options such as safe mode and vga mode etc. Choose last good configuration. If that doesn't work then instead boot into safe mode and try to do a system restore.

Answer 3

Have you tried this repair technique for Win XP?
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
Worked for me thrice in different PCs.