Windows Not Booting Normally
telecomops101
Member Posts: 128
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I have a Dell computer running windowns XP. The problem is that it lost it's power on August 8th when we had a bad rain storm. I turned it back on again and the screen has various instructions that I need to go to highlight. When I highlight (using up and down arrow keys) "Start windows normally", it says it will start in 20 seconds, after 20 seconds winds down it doesn't start. I tried safe mode and it doesn't work. When I move my mouse I don't see the cursor and my printer also is not working.
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Kasor
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Did you look at BIOS?
Is it PC or notebook?
Did you check the HW?Kill All Suffer T "o" ReBorn -
dtlokee
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You may want to try repairing the bootsector and MBR with the recovery console. Also you could try a chkdsk while you're there.The only easy day was yesterday! -
Megadeth4168
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Boot up from a Windows XP CD, go into Recovery Console and run chkdsk /p /r
A more risky option that might help is to run fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console.... I suggest this only if chkdsk finds errors and windows does not work after the chkdsk runs.
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telecomops101
Member Posts: 128
Thanks.....I will be looking at the PC (By the way it's a 2002 dell desktop) tonight and will post back with the results."Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."