Guest Gary07 Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 What happens? it boots up and when it gets to the point where the welcome screen should appear, the screen stays grey. It will not boot into the welcome screen. I don't think the hard drive is defective just the partition table is damaged. When I boot with the XP startup disk it goes to A:/> when I type in E:/> is says there is no such drive, the same with drive D: I have tried changing the BIOS but the CD Drive is in brackets meaning it is disabled. I don't know how to change the default from disabled to enabled. I turn on the computer and it starts to boot up to windows XP and then stalls just before the welcome screen. It's confusing the H.... out of me. I realize I should just boot from the CD ROM or even the XP system recovery disk but can't. Fortunately I have no files or folders on the hard drive to worry about as I regulary back them up to my CD ROM on CDRWs. I would prefer to fix the problem but if not able to will consider a new hard drive. The computer is only one year old, an 80gb hard drive. Thanks for everyones help. Canadianguy
Guest Peter Foldes Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: XP will not boot Gary Did you by any chance use a Registry Cleaner lately. Just curious. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Gary07" <Gary07@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BEE1D71D-2B37-4A4C-B6F7-FA656F2BC813@microsoft.com... > What happens? it boots up and when it gets to the point where the welcome > screen should appear, the screen stays grey. It will not boot into the > welcome screen. I don't think the hard drive is defective just the partition > table is damaged. > When I boot with the XP startup disk it goes to A:/> when I type in E:/> is > says > there is no such drive, the same with drive D: I have tried changing the > BIOS but the CD Drive is in brackets meaning it is disabled. I don't know > how to change the default from disabled to enabled. I turn on the computer > and it starts to boot up to windows XP and then stalls just before the > welcome screen. It's confusing the H.... > out of me. I realize I should just boot from the CD ROM or even the XP > system recovery disk but can't. Fortunately I have no files or folders on > the hard drive to worry about as I regulary back them up to my CD ROM on > CDRWs. > I would prefer to fix the problem but if not able to will consider a new > hard drive. > The computer is only one year old, an 80gb hard drive. Thanks for everyones > help. > Canadianguy
Guest Dee Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: XP will not boot Hi there... When you are in the BIOS, can you try to automatically detect your cd drives to see if this will enable for you to boot from disk? You usually tab down to the drive and hit enter - make your selections. Take Care... Dee Gary07 wrote: > What happens? it boots up and when it gets to the point where the welcome > screen should appear, the screen stays grey. It will not boot into the > welcome screen. I don't think the hard drive is defective just the partition > table is damaged. > When I boot with the XP startup disk it goes to A:/> when I type in E:/> is > says > there is no such drive, the same with drive D: I have tried changing the > BIOS but the CD Drive is in brackets meaning it is disabled. I don't know > how to change the default from disabled to enabled. I turn on the computer > and it starts to boot up to windows XP and then stalls just before the > welcome screen. It's confusing the H.... > out of me. I realize I should just boot from the CD ROM or even the XP > system recovery disk but can't. Fortunately I have no files or folders on > the hard drive to worry about as I regulary back them up to my CD ROM on > CDRWs. > I would prefer to fix the problem but if not able to will consider a new > hard drive. > The computer is only one year old, an 80gb hard drive. Thanks for everyones > help. > Canadianguy
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