stupid windose, help?

Question

basically, MS windows XP keeps trying to boot up, does so after about 10 minutes (which is rather long) then it BSOD's me.

does anyone have any ideas, it also does the same thing with safemode,

any ideas? or am i just going to have to reinstall it.

(unfortunatly my family can't seem to grasp linux, which doesn't have a habbit of breaking every month)

yes windose, its a nick name for windows!!

SOD due to "unmountable boot volume" so it says


no i won't be taking it to "geek squad", i don't like being ripped off they charge you £27 to transfer files from one PC to another (with a cable you can by for £4)

and its not a heat problem, nor is anything dialing out cuz its not attached to anything internet related, (its not a heat problem because its not a high end system and has liquid cooling) cpu is running at under 40celcius

Answer 1

make sure there isnt a heat problem .. and run an antivirus .. make sure u have a software firewall to see if anything is dialing out ..

Answer 2

Give more details about the BSOD. For example is it a driver problem?

You can attempt a fix by booting from your ‘Recovery’ CD and following the instructions for ‘Repair’.
If and when the repair has finished you will get the C: prompt. Now type chkdsk /r (NOT chkdsk/r but chkdsk space /r) and press return (enter). This means run a program called check disk and repair any faults found on the hard drive. I am now going to assume that your Windows Loader file is corrupt and it is this that is causing your problems.

First of all you need to have your C prompt sitting at the root directory of your hard drive. This can be achieved by typing cd c:\
You need to rename your corrupt loader file by typing ren ntldr ntldr.old – did you get an error message? If so you might not be at the root directory so try cd c:\ again and then rename the ntldr file.
Now copy your good original loader file from the Recovery CD and put it back into the root directory of your hard drive. For this exercise I am going to assume that your CD drive is drive D but it could be drive E or even F so replace the D in my instructions with your own CD drive letter. Here goes:
Copy D:\i386\ntldr c:\

In English – Copy SPACE D:\i386\ntldr SPACE c:\ - you should now be able to re-boot.


wdw

Answer 3

Sometimes things just have to be taken apart and put back together! You can get a CD on how to do that.. www.muzzlenose.com Sure it's lots of work but it's cheap that taking to some geek to fix! Sometimes geeks take out the good stuff for their own needs and put crap in and say they fixed the system! Most geeks tend be ripoff artists. If you ever find a good honest one you got lucky!

Answer 4

ok you can try this.
get a hold of a linux live cd, like ubuntu by telling a friend to download it for u, or however you wanna do it.
boot from the live CD, and when you do so, it will give you access to your HDD( Hard Drive). and then if you have an external hard drive or flash drive, copy the files you want to it.
and to fix the windows problem you have to reformat using your windows cd( hopefully you have one), or if you have a recovery partition in your hard drive, turn on the computer and keep pressing F10 or F11. hope this helps.
good luck!!

Answer 5

There could be many reasons for slow boot times, viruses and spyware to name just two. Check out the link, below, for the "best" (by yours truly!) answer to a similar question.

Answer 6

Windose?

Answer 7

you can try taking it to geek squad or some computer repair shop, but it sounds to me like you need to try reformatting. yes microsoft is a pain. good luck!

Answer 8

Retrace your last steps, did you install anything before this happened? Drivers are usually the culprit that cause these problems....

Answer 9

if its giving you the unmountable boot volume i think you will need to reformat it and reinstall windows