My pc wont boot windows xp

Log in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Computer won't boot past the Windows XP splash screen. Thread starter code7 Start date Jan 11, Status Not open for further replies. OK, it all started when i ran ad-aware se.

Boot up www. Reformat and install XP. I'd suspect a virus based on 'auto-shutdown'. Try this, usually works. The problem is to with some spyware, and when removed by adaware causes the behaviour you are describing. Type cd system But I will post this for anyone searching. Run the Recovery Console and press R.

Reboot after its done. It problem still exists, run Recovery Console again and this time type: fixmbr If it says you have a non-standard or bad master boot record then select yes and run it. I am a computer tech at a school district and have seen this problem a few times. The chkdsk fixmbr fixes some, but not all. I believe another problem to be related to the motherboard because on one computer that had this problem, it was a brand spankin new drive that I just imaged from a good computer and this problem immediately appeared.

I put the HD in another computer and it works fine. I swapped RAM and video card and still nothing. The computer I swapped with where the HD worked has the exact same hardware, so a bad mobo may be the problem. Possibly a BIOS update will work.

I have the saqme problem on a cold start up. When I tried to run the recovery console it asks me for a password. I go back into windows and create a password form the control panel and try the repair option again. Then it does not accept the password. Any suggestions? If you can't run repair because of that password issue then it usually means a bad partition on your hard drive.

Only way I have found to get around that is to format the HD and start all over with a clean install. To save your files, get a second hard drive. Maybe take your hard drive to a friends house or something and then hook yours up as a slave. You should be able to pull your files over to your friends computer and then save em on CD or something. I just had to do this with two hard drives here at work with that dumb password error.

Good luck. Just after the boot screen the BSOD would flash and my pc would restart. Now I have a working computer, but I still have important data files and software on my old hard drive.

I'm not sure how to copy these files onto my newly installed hard drive. I connected the old one as a slave to my new one, hoping it would appear on My Computer, but it didn't. If anyone has a solution, please reply as soon as possible. Enter setup for your computer and you may need to change the setting to auto in order to detect the slave drive. Another possibility is to cable the drive to the secondary ide.

If the partition tables has corruption, I used "Recover Lost Data" by Stompf to salvage data from a crash. The data must be moved to a drive that is healthy. My bios is detecting the hard drive.

In fact when I boot up my new hard drive, Windows detects the old one. It just can't seem to be able to access it. I checked out that recovery software that was suggested above, but I don't have the money to buy it, especially since there's no guarantee. Applicable Systems This Windows-related knowledgebase article applies to the following operating systems:. Download Easy Recovery Essentials. Windows, booting up successfully.

The advanced boot options startup menu. Windows Vista System Recovery Options. Windows 8 Repair Your Computer Menu. Download recovery disk for Windows 10 free Using Windows 8? Download recovery disk for Windows 8 Using Windows 7? Download recovery disk for Windows 7 Using Windows Vista? Windows XP is a stable but complex operating system. For a variety of reasons, such as files being deleted or corrupted, Windows XP can get messed up to the point where it will not fully boot.

In many cases Windows XP can be restored without losing any of your documents. In some cases your files may be lost. If that is the case, you may want to connect your hard drive to another computer to copy off any files you don't want to loose.

Verify there are no hardware problems preventing the computer from booting up.