After installing iTunes 7.4.1 and being told to restart I did (I'm not saying iTunes has anything to do with this). Rather than rebooting my PC just shutdown, went past the dell POST screen and then just sat there with a flashing cursor.
I thought there must be a boot problem, so I started the Windows XP recovery console (I have WinXP Pro SP2) and chose to FIXBOOT and FIXMBR, as well as running BOOTCFG and checking all was well.
Restarted and still no luck. I went into BartPE (a version of WinXP you can boot from CD-ROM) and find that my drive C is still perfectly accessible. I've swapped the hard drive now for an old one I had lying around that had WinXP on and this is how I'm using it now - what can I do to check what's wrong, and what can I do to fix things?
2007-09-10 09:52:49 · 4 answers · asked by tompagenet 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I have run a chkdsk and found no errors - is there a way to force chkdsk to only scan the boot sector.
My drive is 160GB, but my BIOS recognises only 137GB - is it possible that this is the problem; that the boot sector now points to a location that (before Windows loads and interprets such addresses) is beyond the BIOS' understanding.
I should say that I've been using this drive for months now without problems!
2007-09-11 01:48:01 · update #1
After POST it's waiting for the (first) boot device to respond and deliver the boot block.
Have you run bootcfg /rebuild ? if so, & still not working, I'm going to guess that the boot block area (on the physical disk) is corrupt .. check it using chkdsk ...
2007-09-11 00:25:39 · answer #1 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 16:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your XP files must be corrupt. Try and reinstall XP. Otherwise take the files off the drive. Then toss it.
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2007-09-10 09:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋