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From: Gary L Greco on 10 Jan 2010 18:56
I have tried to get xp to boot into safe mode and it would not give me the f8
key screen choices for booting.
I inserted the recovery console disk,or xp cd and tried to use the fixmbr
and fix boot files. They seemed to have run correctly, although I did get the
usual caution screen about the mbr was not where it was supposed to be or
what it is was , and if you go further you may loose your partitions and etc.
I proceeded anyway and it finished ,and i tried to exit and restart the f8
screen came up automatically asking if i wanted to boot normal or select the
safe mode etc.
I selected the safe mode, it started loading files and then rebooted again
to the same start up screen asking me which boot selection i wanted.
I ran chkdsk.
It stated there was 1 file that had an error ,i reran chkdsk /r to recover
that file.
I then restarted and the same sequence happend again ,it will not boot into
windows .
It does not display an error of any kind.
I am running 2 SATA drives and 1 ide hardrive,1 dvd/cd drive

I thought there might be virus or some malware ,but after runing fixmbr and
fix boot i figured it should at least start windows , am wrong in thinking
this?

I am on my other pc ,it also has SATA drives as well , should i disconnect
the drive from the other pc and install it in this pc and run a virus check?

Or is there a way to run a virus check from the recovery console?
Gary L Greco
From: Shenan Stanley on 10 Jan 2010 20:14
Gary L Greco wrote:
> I have tried to get xp to boot into safe mode and it would not give
> me the f8 key screen choices for booting.
> I inserted the recovery console disk,or xp cd and tried to use the
> fixmbr and fix boot files. They seemed to have run correctly,
> although I did get the usual caution screen about the mbr was not
> where it was supposed to be or what it is was , and if you go
> further you may loose your partitions and etc. I proceeded anyway
> and it finished ,and i tried to exit and restart the f8 screen came
> up automatically asking if i wanted to boot normal or select the
> safe mode etc.
> I selected the safe mode, it started loading files and then
> rebooted again to the same start up screen asking me which boot
> selection i wanted.
> I ran chkdsk.
> It stated there was 1 file that had an error ,i reran chkdsk /r to
> recover that file.
> I then restarted and the same sequence happend again ,it will not
> boot into windows .
> It does not display an error of any kind.
> I am running 2 SATA drives and 1 ide hardrive,1 dvd/cd drive
>
> I thought there might be virus or some malware ,but after runing
> fixmbr and fix boot i figured it should at least start windows , am
> wrong in thinking this?
>
> I am on my other pc ,it also has SATA drives as well , should i
> disconnect the drive from the other pc and install it in this pc
> and run a virus check?
>
> Or is there a way to run a virus check from the recovery console?
> Gary L Greco

Repair installation.

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