Error loading operating system

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Am trying to trouble shoot my daughters hard 40 GB hard drive. It has
Windows XP
professional (upgrade) that was running just fine for 8 months. Now it is on
the blink.
At boot, it gets as far as "Verifying DMI Pool" and then stops with "Error
loading operating system."

What do we do now?
 
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Am trying to trouble shoot my daughters hard 40 GB hard drive. It has
| Windows XP
| professional (upgrade) that was running just fine for 8 months. Now it is on
| the blink.
| At boot, it gets as far as "Verifying DMI Pool" and then stops with "Error
| loading operating system."
|
| What do we do now?
|
|
 
agb said:
Am trying to trouble shoot my daughters hard 40 GB hard drive. It has
Windows XP
professional (upgrade) that was running just fine for 8 months. Now
it is on the blink.
At boot, it gets as far as "Verifying DMI Pool" and then stops with
"Error loading operating system."

What do we do now?
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Most of the causes of this issue are hardware or BIOS related. A repair
install of XP might fix, but I would try a couple of other things first.
If the boot files are corrupt, using the recovery console to repair the
boot files might take care of the problem. Boot with the XP CD and choose
the option to repair an installation using the recovery console. From the
recovery console extract NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from your XP CD to the
root of C. Then use the fixboot command to write a new partition boot
sector to the system partition.

If that fails then suspect hardware or BIOS problems. Things to check are
BIOS settings for hard drive, boot devices set properly. On the hardware
side check for loose or disconnected cables. Other possibilities are a
bad hard disk or other bad hardware.


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There are instructions also for using recovery console to step back to
an earlier configuration. This is handy when you can't boot to the
point to see the system restore points in windows. Another possibility
is to go into the BIOS setup and enable the option to rewrite the ECSD.
It is usually on the PNP page of the BIOS. The hardware boot will
then reevaluate the hardware and pass teh same to windows.
 
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