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Answer» SOMEBODY HELP ME. I have a mini laptop that keeps rebooting itself I cant GET into anything. I cant boot up in safe mode or any of the other four selections when this black screen POPS up and says windows is having problems booting up. A blue screen pops up for half a second and then it starts over and over and over again. What can I do to fix this problem?Using the F8 key to enter Advanced Options menu, select "disable automatic restart on system failure", press enter.. It will produce the blue screen and you will be able to read it... Post all the info. on the blue screen on your next post..I got rid of all your unneccessary !'s...Quote from: patio on October 26, 2009, 02:55:34 PM I got rid of all your unneccessary !'s...I hit f8 got to the blue screen and it says UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME. ***STOP 0x000000ed (0x86360138, 0x0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)It looks like file system got messed up. Do you have Windows CD? Start with... If you have Windows CD...(if you don't have Windows CD, scroll down) 1. Insert your Windows XP CD into your CD and assure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of booting the CD. 2. Once you have booted from CD, do NOT select the option that states: Press F2 to initiate the Automated System Recovery (ASR) tool. You’re going to proceed until you see the following screen, at which point you will press the “R” key to enter the recovery console: 3. After you have selected the appropriate option from step two, you will be prompted to select a valid Windows installation (typically number “1″). Select the installation number, and hit Enter. If there is an administrator password for the administrator account, enter it and hit Enter (if asked for the password, and you don't know it, you're out of luck). You will be greeted with this screen, which indicates a recovery console at the ready: 4. There are eight COMMANDS you must enter in sequence to repair your problem.. NOTE. MAKE sure, you press Enter after each command. Make sure, all commands are exact, including "spaces". These commands are as follows: CD.. ATTRIB -H C:\boot.ini ATTRIB -S C:\boot.ini ATTRIB -R C:\boot.ini del boot.ini BOOTCFG /Rebuild Note about the above command. BOOTCFG /REBUILD command which searches for pre-existing installations of Windows XP and rebuilds sundry essential components of the Windows operating system, recompiles the BOOT.INI file and corrects a litany of common Windows errors. It is very important that you do one or both of the following two things: A.) Every Windows XP owner must use /FASTDETECT as OS Load Option when the rebuild process is finalizing. B.) If you are the owner of a CPU featuring Intel’s XD or AMD’s NX buffer overflow protection, you must also use /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN as an OS Load Option. For the Enter Load Identifier portion of this command, you should enter the name of the operating system you have installed. If, for example, you are using Windows XP Home, you could type Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition for the identifier (it's not crucial, however what the name is, as long, as it's meaningful). Here is your computer screen: 5. Following command verifies the integrity of the hard drive containing the Windows XP installation. While this step is not an essential function in our process, it’s still good to be sure that the drive is physically capable of running windows, in that it contains no bad sectors or other corruptions that might be the culprit: CHKDSK /R 6. This last command writes a new boot sector to the hard drive and cleans up all the loose ends we created by rebuilding the BOOT.INI file and the system files. When the Windows Recovery Console asks you if you are Sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C: ? just hit “Y”, then Enter to confirm your decision: FIXBOOT 7. It’s time to reboot your PC by typing EXIT and pressing Enter. With any luck, your PC will boot successfully into Windows XP as if your various DLL, Hive, EXE and NTLDR errors never existed. If you don't have Windows CD... Download Windows Recovery Console: http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso Download, and install free Imgburn: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download Using Imgburn, burn rc.iso to a CD. Boot to the CD...let it finish loading. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console. Then, follow INSTRUCTIONS from Step #3 above.dont have a cd drive i have an acer it is a mini laptop maybe i can somehow hook it up to a cd drive?Creating a USB bootable XP recovery console: http://tuts4tech.net/2009/07/14/creating-a-usb-bootable-xp-recovery-console/ I assume, there is USB port.Wow... That's all i can say. Follow Broni's advice if you want to get out of the woods... Probably would have been helpful to let us know there was no CD device...saves time. |
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