I'm trying to recover from a boot error. The pc starts up and gives me the choice of safe mode, last known good, or normal. irregardless of what I choose it enters a loop of rebooting and coming back to this point. I can see my HD with a linux live-cd and have already copied some info to a backup. But any ideas how I can get this thing to boot again? I instaled some sketchy software this morning so I'm leaning towards a possible corrupt registry. I copied previously good registry info from "system volume information" to system32\config but no change. I ran chkdsk and got the ok, ran fixboot but no change. bootcfg doesn't run claiming file system errors
I've done that before but I will have to re-install all my software if I go that route. I'm trying to figure out how to get this fixed without a complete re-install.
your just wasting time..........do total reinstall and partitioning..........trust me.......mine has crashed 5 times in last year.........now....i....will just go straight to complete install mode...........takes bout an hour-----------trying to save will waste about 4 hours------trying every possible thing like repair etc......just get used to being able to lose everything.....now i use ib browser----so no big deal
If you do a windows install on top of itself you shouldn't have to reinstall all of your software. Choose the least destructive option first.
You might want to try this... http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
I found that article and I'm trying it but I'm not getting teh same screens. I don't think that the install CD is seeing the old installation
shark - same thing happened to me last week. I spent a few hours trying to salvage it and ended up having to reinstall windows. Now, my problem started with a questionnable email, but the end result was the same as yours.
I tried slipstreaming sp2 with my original cd (2004) hoping that would fix it but the installation just goes into installing a new copy in a different directory windows.0 No option to repair ever shows up