911alertme Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 My computer must hate me. I was poking around the back of my computer and accidentally pulled out the power cord. Now windows refuses to boot. It gets to the part where it has the XP logo and looks like it's booting windows, then it just restarts. I know it is a software issue because I am typing this out on another installation of XP on a different partition. This is the third time this has happened in a month and a half. Any fixes besides a clean install? The file system on both partitions is NTFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 This link will get you where you need to go: http://thebestosintheworld.com/ If you still insist on using Windows you'll have to do a repair install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911alertme Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 How would I go about doing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Now you have the key words (repair install windows) Google can help: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=repair+install+windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911alertme Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Sorry. Thank you very much Sparda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911alertme Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Is there anything I can do to ensure this doesn't happen again. It is now summer and power outages are inevitable. If the repair doesn't work I can't keep restoring it. The thing is, I've owned this computer for almost 3 years now and it hasn't happened before this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 b4 reinstallin try booting into safemode, if this fails aswell, run into repair consol, and reload the issued files. -Edit- Its also not wise to take advise from someone who doesnt use windows. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911alertme Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Tried safemode as well. I can only access the drive from Linux and not even from another XP install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 hmm try repairing the MBR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Repair the MBR? WTF? It starts to boot windows but craps out. Try running it in safemode and seeing if it throws an error message. If not, you have probally tanked windows. Reinstall Windows over the old version and start again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Is there anything I can do to ensure this doesn't happen again. Short of a UPS + backup generator there is nothing you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 hmm try repairing the MBR ... WTF? that wasnt me! -edit- U might wanna try chkdisk in XP's restor consol, though ur best bet would be to install XP over XP as Vako mentioned. Though this has issues if ur install has SP2 and ur Disk inst, so u may need to use another PC and slipstream SP2 onto ur disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
911alertme Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 The XP install disk doesn't even recognize the partition it is installed on. I says it uses an unknown filesystem. I'm just going to do a clean install and hope like hell this doesn't happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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