Hi. I'm RUNNING a Win Xp Pro system, it's a 7 year old system with 1.6 gb ram, 60gb hd. I'd have more specs but I cannot GET the system up.

I was online the other day and doing music work in Logic 4.7, when my whole computer shut down. I rebooted and it was terribly slow. I noticed a message regarding a FILE C:\Windows\Prefetch. I shut down and chkdsk started automatically. The chkdsk took an unusually long time, going through lots of files. After that, I have nothing. I can access the bios, which recognizes the drive.

So I inserted the Win XP Pro cd to do a recovery console. It locates everything fine and locates my c:\windows file (in Dos only). The next dos prompt asked me for a ADMINISTRATOR password. No administrator profile on the computer. I pressed enter and got to the dos prompt.

I did "dir" and noticed several file entries from the day of the crash:

6/03/07 3:08p 0 .
6/03/07 3:08p 0 ..
6/03/07 4:09p 1238 win.ini
6/03/07 8:00p 0 winadebug.log
6/03/07 8:00p 48 wiaseruc.log
6/03/07 8:00p 0 windows_update.log
6/03/07 12:46p 4328 ModemLog_Lucent winmodem.txt

6/04/07 7:23a 2048 bootstat.dat

Those are the only entries from the day of the crash. SINCE the drive looks fine and healthy I was hoping there was something I can do instead of reformating the drive altogether.

Thanks. Please help if you can.

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what exactly does it do when you try to turn it on??