Mangar Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 I have been asked to look at a system for a friend, it is running (or used to) windows XP home. It will lnot boot. I try to boot in safe mode, but it doesn't make it all the way. I am wondering if the NTFS partition is bad. Any ideas ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve burnell Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 try putting the xp cd in and booting from it and doing a repair install Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangar Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 The trouble is that this friend bought this system as a "refurbished" system and does not have any cd's. I have a XP disk, can I use mine without disturbing the registration? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varry Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 Don't mind about registration as u cn change an illegal copy into a legal one with the winxp keychanger (u can download it from majorgeeks.com) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted October 7, 2003 Posted October 7, 2003 Don't mind about registration as u cn change an illegal copy into a legal one with the winxp keychanger (u can download it from majorgeeks.com) ahhh yea we don't do any of that stuff here on occ. As for looking for your files. Yes use the recovery option it doesn't matter if its your cd as long as they match xp pro or xp home. If this doesn't work U can't look at them in dos cause its NTFS. My suggestion i did it with my comp to fix it. Hook the hd to another comp. Backup all the files. and do a fresh install. Besides i hate the recovery option. I tried it once and the comp ran worse than a fresh install and it takes just as much time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted October 7, 2003 Posted October 7, 2003 If you don't have any CD's for the computer you download the 6 disk set from Microsoft. They have disks for Home and Pro. With these disks, you will be able to boot into the recovery console and access the partitions. You will need the administrator password to do so. If you do not know it or if he does not know it, you are SOL. From there you can run a CHKDSK C: /R which do a full partition scan and correct any errors with it. That is the only advice I can give other than doing a full re-installation from scratch. And Varry, please remember that we do not support piracy on these forums. Figure we warn you before LinuxProX does. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...&NoWebContent=1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangar Posted October 7, 2003 Posted October 7, 2003 Thanks FxXP !!!! that sounds like the way to go. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangar Posted October 7, 2003 Posted October 7, 2003 Thank you Thank you Thank you.... FxXP you ROCK !!!! This worked perfectly. Again many thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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