XP Freezes on Boot UP

[0725]

I have a Acer Laptop that will not boot up. It gives me the error 'windows did not start successfully' and five choices to use all five either freeze the computer on the windows xp startup screen or a page of 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\drivers **then different files.sys

[Plastic Nev]

Will it start up in safe mode? constantly tap F8 from start. If so try "Last known Good Configuration".

Do you have any disks?

Nev.

[0725]

I tried the 'use last good configuration' and it does the same thing, freezes on the windows xp screen. Safe mode gives me the 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partitiion(2)\windows\system32\drivers\ errors. I downloaded a bootdisk but can't figure out how to burn image to disk (I have a new Vista Premium computer and still figuring things out). I have 2 baclup dvd's that I created when I first bought the computer, I tried putting one in and starting the computer but it won't work either.

[danzil]

do you have an xp cd,,, if so set your your PC to boot from it in the bios.

when prompted press any key to boot from CD.

When the "Welcome to XP Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.

select your operating sytem usually press 1,,,

When you are prompted to do so, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER. (usually is)

At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after you type each line:

md tmp

cd system32

ren ntkrnlpa.exe ntkrnlpa.old

ren ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.old

cd "c:\windows\driver cache\i386"

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrpamp.exe c:\windows\system32

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrnlmp.exe c:\windows\system32

cd c:\windows\system32

ren ntkrpamp.exe ntkrnlpa.exe

ren ntkrnlmp.exe ntoskrnl.exe

type EXIT to leave the console...

 

please not if you had service pack 3 installed,you will need to change the following on the below lines, change sp2.cab to sp3.cab

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrpamp.exe c:\windows\system32

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrnlmp.exe c:\windows\system32

 

 

give that a try

regards

danzil