help please

[Liz]

For some reason this morning my windows xp would not boot up.
I kept getting the message that windows xp could not start and to choose
safe mode,
safe mode with networking or last know configuration. I choose the latter
but it seems it just keeps looping back to windows can not start up.
I have windows xp sp1 on the originial disc but the computer has windows xp
2sp2 on it. I have the disc from Microsoft with windows xp sp2 on it but
when I put into the drive
to try and get to Repair it seems my computer is not reading the disc for
some reason.
Just wonder if anyone could offer any assistance. The Windows xp sp2 disc I
have is one that I ordered from Microsoft when they offered this for free.
Thank you in advance.
Liz.

 

[Guest]

Hi Liz,

I think you may be a tad confused, if you are trying to do a repair to your
windows installation then you need your original Windows disk, the one you
say has SP1, this will do the repair.

The SP2 disc you have that Microsoft gave away free is just Service Pack 2,
its not Windows, its just the SP2 update only so it won't boot and do a
repair.

Boot from your actual Windows disk and select repair when the on screen menu
appears.

Hope that helps ?

Andy W

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

For some reason this morning my windows xp would not boot up.
I kept getting the message that windows xp could not start and to
choose safe mode,
safe mode with networking or last know configuration. I choose the
latter but it seems it just keeps looping back to windows can not
start up.
I have windows xp sp1

That's Windows XP *with* SP1.

on the originial disc but the computer has
windows xp 2sp2 on it. I have the disc from Microsoft with windows xp
sp2

That's SP2 alone. Windows XP is not on that CD.

on it but when I put into the drive
to try and get to Repair it seems my computer is not reading the disc
for some reason.

Yes, the reason is that you need a CD that has Windows XP *with* SP2.

What you should do is create what's called a "slipstreamed" CD, by adding
SP2 to your Windows CD. Read here:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262