Guest westpase-he_ac@hotmail.com Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 I'm at a loss, I had a crash where program froze and I tried to close the program by clicking the "X" in the upper right corner. Got a blue screen box that closed before I could read it. All attempts of restarting go though a screen stating Windows failed to start properly, would I like to try in Safe Mode,etc. None have worked, I tried the installation disc, ran chkdsk from the command prompt, fixed something, but still no clean boot. I put in the install disc again, it found another version of windows and asked if I wanted to creat a dual boot partition. I stopped at that point. I really would like to recover some files off this machine and am concerned that I will lose access or overwrite them by doing the dual boot installation. Would I be able to see the files or folders that are currently on the C: drive if I dual install XP? My other option might be to put the problem drive in an external case, get a new HD for the laptop and just try and recover the files that way if its possible to do that. Any expertise would be appreciated.
Guest sgopus Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 RE: Installing dual boot xpPro after crash At this point a dual boot is not a good idea, I would suggest a repair install, and plan on replacing that Hard disc ASAP. So your saying you booted to the install cd and it found two seperate installs of XP? "westpase-he_ac@hotmail.com" wrote: > I'm at a loss, I had a crash where program froze and > I tried to close the program by clicking the "X" in the > upper right corner. Got a blue screen box that closed > before I could read it. All attempts of restarting go > though a screen stating Windows failed to start > properly, would I like to try in Safe Mode,etc. > None have worked, I tried the installation disc, > ran chkdsk from the command prompt, fixed > something, but still no clean boot. I put in the install > disc again, it found another version of windows > and asked if I wanted to creat a dual boot partition. > I stopped at that point. I really would like to recover > some files off this machine and am concerned that > I will lose access or overwrite them by doing the > dual boot installation. > Would I be able to see the files or folders that > are currently on the C: drive if I dual install XP? > My other option might be to put the problem drive > in an external case, get a new HD for the laptop > and just try and recover the files that way if its > possible to do that. > Any expertise would be appreciated. >
Guest westpase-he_ac@hotmail.com Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 Re: Installing dual boot xpPro after crash On Oct 6, 8:19 pm, sgopus <sgo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > At this point a dual boot is not a good idea, I would suggest a repair > install, and plan on replacing that Hard disc ASAP. > > So your saying you booted to the install cd and it found two seperate > installs of XP? > > > > "westpase-he...@hotmail.com" wrote: snip Hi, thanks for your caution, No, it found the flawed install of XP and asked if I wanted to create a second. I thought I had tried a repair install, but it didn't fix the startup problem. I can go to Bios on start-up. Can I set it to stop at that blue screen and get the details of the error? It's a Dell c840 2.4 Ghz. I was running a FFT program in a realtime mode for several hours without stopping it, and maybe ran out of physical memory and locked it up. Not connected to internet except for updating OS from MS updates. No email, or browsing. Any other details that might be relevent just ask and I'll try to clairify them Thanks.
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