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Please help!! I need some help!
I did the exact same thing. It took me litterally weeks
of late nights tinkering around with Dos Commands. I can't even remember exactly how I restored it, but I believe I had to rewrite various portions of the registry. If I had the chance to pay $35 to get out of that mess, it would have been a bargin! You might try attaching a second moniter if you are running XP Pro, I was able to at least get to the command prompt that way. Good luck. -----Original Message----- Hi, Can you get your hands on another HD? If so, you can install it as Master, jumper your previous HD as Slave, install WinXP on the new HD and copy all the data files from the old HD to the new one. Then scan the old HD to check for errors and use it as file back up storage device. Good luck. Sleepless -----Original Message----- Okay, here goes... Windows XP wasn't acting right, I couldn't add some hardware, couldn't play media or games correctly, and I couldn't change many features on XP. So I decided to pop in the XP installation disk and see if I could do some kind of "repair installation" (kind of like reinstalling XP but keeping everything on my hard drive). I couldn't find such a feature so I choose to install it again using the "Upgrade" option. That was a big mistake. Setup then went through it's little installation ritual and then restarted my unit, but it didn't reboot successfully and automatically shutdown. Now whenever I try to boot up, the computer pauses, then shows me the startup screen (ya' know, the one with "Safe Mode" and "Last Known Good Config"?). Whenever I choose any one of the options, it trys to go further but then it just freezes and restarts. I have already tried to repair my handywork by booting from the XP cd and repairing the Windows partition. That hasn't worked. Please, I need help! (And I'm not yet willing to drop $35 for Windows Tech Support) If someone knows anything that could get me anywhere, please post it! Thanks a bunch! Sincerely, (a very distraught) Novice . . |
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