Ste
13th June 2007, 11:00
Was going to post this in the other thread but it would just have been missed so here.
If your XP is going on a loop, and just rebooting at the Windows Splash screen;
http://z.about.com/d/pcsupport/1/0/3/0/-/-/safemode1.jpg
Well this is because your boot files are ruined. You need a floppy drive or bootable USB drive so you can replicate the files in a nother location. You need a working machine with the same OS on to create a bootable floppy.
To make a floppy or USB drive, insert a blank floppy into your floppy drive usually called A: but this will be different with USB pens, dont get this letter wrong when formatting, select Start, Run then type cmd, and click ok. A black window will pop up, this is the command prompt (DOS). Type Format A: then press Y when prompted. Then type each of these lines pressing enter after each.
xcopy c:\boot.ini a: /h
xcopy c:\ntdetect.com a: /h
xcopy c:\ntldr a: /h
This is a command line to tell dos to copy the boot drive file, boot.ini from your windows drive, C:\ that is a hidden file, /h....
Once done simply put it in your floppy drive of the ruined pc and turn it on, if it says there is a disk in A; reboot (or media left in or some other crap) go into the bios and change your boot order to miss out your floppy drive. Usually F12 after the post beep], then in the daunting looking menu find Boot options/ Boot sequence and remove the floppy drive from the boot order. exit and save.
XP should now boot up. If not unlucky....
You can leave the disk in all the time but that sucks so when booted up go back into dos Start > Run > CMD
and type xcopy a:*.* c:\ /h, and press Enter. This puts the new files back on.
If your XP is going on a loop, and just rebooting at the Windows Splash screen;
http://z.about.com/d/pcsupport/1/0/3/0/-/-/safemode1.jpg
Well this is because your boot files are ruined. You need a floppy drive or bootable USB drive so you can replicate the files in a nother location. You need a working machine with the same OS on to create a bootable floppy.
To make a floppy or USB drive, insert a blank floppy into your floppy drive usually called A: but this will be different with USB pens, dont get this letter wrong when formatting, select Start, Run then type cmd, and click ok. A black window will pop up, this is the command prompt (DOS). Type Format A: then press Y when prompted. Then type each of these lines pressing enter after each.
xcopy c:\boot.ini a: /h
xcopy c:\ntdetect.com a: /h
xcopy c:\ntldr a: /h
This is a command line to tell dos to copy the boot drive file, boot.ini from your windows drive, C:\ that is a hidden file, /h....
Once done simply put it in your floppy drive of the ruined pc and turn it on, if it says there is a disk in A; reboot (or media left in or some other crap) go into the bios and change your boot order to miss out your floppy drive. Usually F12 after the post beep], then in the daunting looking menu find Boot options/ Boot sequence and remove the floppy drive from the boot order. exit and save.
XP should now boot up. If not unlucky....
You can leave the disk in all the time but that sucks so when booted up go back into dos Start > Run > CMD
and type xcopy a:*.* c:\ /h, and press Enter. This puts the new files back on.