xp will not boot in normal or safe mode. goes to a black screen with no cursor. I've tried resetting cmos. xp cd starts and gets to the screen saying windows is starting and freezes. I have tested the hd with seagate diagnostics and all passed. right now spinrite is looking for errors on the drive. it's at 70% with no errors and three hours to go. I tried swapping out memory and checked for viruses with mcaffee's magic bullet. what have i forgotten?
rhoos 0 Newbie Poster
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do you have a windows installation cd, boot from it and run repair option, if it wouldn't help i think you will need to reinstall windows.
rhoos 0 Newbie Poster
do you have a windows installation cd, boot from it and run repair option, if it wouldn't help i think you will need to reinstall windows.
Thanks for the reply but in my original message I mentioned that I have already tried that. As it turns out, the hard drive is going bad even though it still passed the diagnostic tests. I can still access the data when I load it as a slave drive on another machine so all is not lost.
fry 4 Posting Whiz in Training
excuse me i missed the sentence about the xp installation cd, so if you data is still accessible from another comp, backup it all and you have to do this quickly coz drive will die in any moment. do you have any backup prog? i'd advice you to use true image, and it's worth to make a schedule backups of the whole system just to be sure that your data will be safe and sound, good luck.
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