xp restarts after the boot screen

sr_ultimate · 18-03-2007, 07:53 AM

I don't exactly know what happened, the electricity went off and I just moved my PC to a different table. When I switched on the machine the loaded till the "Windows XP" loading screen and then restarts. I am trying for last 12 hours and could not find anything wrong .

I tried reinserting the harddisk cables and both the RAMs. But the prob. persists.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks.

shantanu · 18-03-2007, 07:58 AM

most probable your Xp got corrupted by a Driver file missing, do this :

press F8 at startup, and select , Disable automatic restart on system failure, and Press Enter on WIndows Xp option, then when your PC restarted , it will now show a BLUE screen with error information and code, tell it here, and then only it would be clear what happened,

dont worry!!!

nishant_nms · 18-03-2007, 08:05 AM

try to get in safe mode and perform a chkdsk.

sr_ultimate · 18-03-2007, 08:08 AM

Now there is a blue screen error. Says

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error ... blah blah blah ..
__________
Its same problem in SAFE Mode too.

shantanu · 18-03-2007, 08:11 AM

ok , so you need to Reinstall Xp, i am sure no other option is there, this error has been discussed several times , and at the end only format is the option, so my friend,, go ahead and reinstall windows

sr_ultimate · 18-03-2007, 08:11 AM

Could this be my HARD DISK connection problem ? I do have a feeling previously had a boot failiure and I had reinserted the cable to make it work. But that was a month ago or so .

shantanu · 18-03-2007, 08:15 AM

no your HDD driver and loaders got curropted, the only way is reinstall. Is there any problem in that buddy!!!

tell it, i just said this coz , at the end you will have to do this,,

cable reconnection might not help, if it was a cable problem then Windows loading screen would not have displayed,

The Unknown · 18-03-2007, 08:15 AM

You have to reinstall xp by formatting your xp install drive(usually c: ). This happend with me once upon a time in the same situation what sr_ultimate has.

sr_ultimate · 18-03-2007, 09:28 AM

Argh ! that sucks .

Let me try few stuffs and try few more exp. .

The Unknown · 18-03-2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by sr_ultimate

Argh ! that sucks .

Let me try few stuffs and try few more exp. .

No use buddy. You will have to reinstall xp 99.9%. If your xp is repaired without reinstalling then i'll say it's your luck of the 0.1% as said above.