[Home] Won't Boot

[Ace203]

Okay so I tried to boot my PC up it was running fine.

Okay heres the stuff, hard drive spins, Monitor and Graphics Card are active because I can get into the BIOS just it will not show the log in screen. I can access the hard drive on another computer and get all my data so should i just restart all over again?

I have ran chkdsk /r on both windows and the windows CD, and I have done fixboot on the windows CD.

Any help would be great all I wanna do is test out my new 8800GTS and play some games.

[Train]

I would try the clean install since you have saved everything you want.

[SuperSparks]

Or you could try an over-the-top install. Boot up with the XP CD in the drive and let Setup run. Go past the "C" and "R" repair options by pressing Enter just as if you're doing a clean install and you'll eventually get an option to "Repair an existing installation". That's the one you want. If it asks about formatting you've gone wrong, so start over.

You'll get to keep your existing apps & settings, but you need to re-install SP2, Windows Updates & any unsigned drivers afterwards. NOTE: Be aware that you'll lose any protection from Blaster / Sasser type worms. Don't go online without a firewall, whether the built in Windows one or 3rd party.

How to perform a re-install of WinXP

Repair XP

WinXP Non-destructive Total Rebuild

[Ace203]

Well SS I did try that last night but it was no good, So I just reformated my hard drive and its all ready back up to par for me.

[Train]

Sometimes, that is the easiest and fastest way to handle that mcorruption.