Boot Problems, Keeps Restarting

[Thom @ Pewaukee]

I've read the 7/12/04 "Boot Problems". This seems to be
similar to my problem. I originally listed my issue in
New Users, "Keeps Restarting" 7/12/04.

The 7/12/04 "Boot Problems" talks about the recovery
console. How would I get there? I've also read something
about a repair option. I can't find that either.

I have a new XP home edition. I couldn't find the driver
for my printer and the add a printer operation wouldn't
work. I reloaded XP. Towards the end of the install, it
restarted my computer, went through the motions of
restarting, but never opened to a window, and restarted.
This cycle keeps going. I've checked the bios, set it to
boot from my CD, nothing changed, keeps restarting. I
tried the XP CD in my CDRW, keeps restarting. I do get
that blue screen flash (too fast to read), mentioned
in "Boot Problems".

I did try to fdisk from my old 98SE boot disk. I deleted
the partition, but could not create a new partition. I
got a message something to the effect of "disk full cannot
create partition". Nothing changed.

[Dallasdcc]

try booting to windows recovery console and running "diskpart", ive found that sometimes the win 98 startup disk will not work correctly.

"Thom @ Pewaukee" wrote:

> I've read the 7/12/04 "Boot Problems". This seems to be
> similar to my problem. I originally listed my issue in
> New Users, "Keeps Restarting" 7/12/04.
>
> The 7/12/04 "Boot Problems" talks about the recovery
> console. How would I get there? I've also read something
> about a repair option. I can't find that either.
>
> I have a new XP home edition. I couldn't find the driver
> for my printer and the add a printer operation wouldn't
> work. I reloaded XP. Towards the end of the install, it
> restarted my computer, went through the motions of
> restarting, but never opened to a window, and restarted.
> This cycle keeps going. I've checked the bios, set it to
> boot from my CD, nothing changed, keeps restarting. I
> tried the XP CD in my CDRW, keeps restarting. I do get
> that blue screen flash (too fast to read), mentioned
> in "Boot Problems".
>
> I did try to fdisk from my old 98SE boot disk. I deleted
> the partition, but could not create a new partition. I
> got a message something to the effect of "disk full cannot
> create partition". Nothing changed.
>