reboot problems

[hunteru]

Probably been covered many time before but can any body help me out with rebooting problems on my laptop. Im running XP and recently I had a power cut when power was restored my laptop now tries to restart but only gets as far as the front loading bar screen for windows and tries to reboot again. I have tried to start in safe mode ect but no luck unfortunatley any advice grateful

 

[lone.gunman]

Most likely the power cut trashed some windoze system files on the HDD m8, your probably going to need to re-install windoze. Have you got a recovery didk for them/c? Stick that in, boot from it & see what options it gives you, you may have the option to return to original or repair install. If you haven't got a restore disk, have you got a Windoze install disk? If so boot from that & see if you can do a repair install from that.

Hope that helps...If not ask away

 

[techquest]

Try one of the following because I suspect you have corrupted the boot sector.

1. Boot from the windows cd in, boot from the cd, press r for repair then FIXBOOT and enter.

or

2. Boot from the windows disk and press r for recovery console. At the prompt > type chkdsk /r, this does the same job as your previous check so may resolve it

or

3. Use an XP or W98 boot floppy disk in the A: drive and once there at the A promt A:\> type the following remembering to include the space after EXE.

A:\> FDISK.EXE /MBR. That should write a new boot sector.

This will repair the boot sector.