XP Media Center wont boot

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Hi,
My toshiba laptop has OEM version of XP media center 4.0. It crashed
recently when i was using partition magic. It wont boot now and would display
BSOD.
I downloaded set of bootable disks for XP Professional (since there is none
for XP media center) using
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F

But it wont let me install. It would ask for third floppy and than i would
get never ending message of "Please Wait".

I went to support of partition magic and they say that i have to run chkdsk
/f to repair it. So kindly let me know what should i do to get recovery
console.

I am sure that i dont have SP2 on my machine.
 
Windows XP Pro setup disks will only work with Windows XP Pro
and not Windows Media Center. Why didn't you make a set of
"rescue disks" when prompted to do so by Partition Magic?

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| Hi,
| My toshiba laptop has OEM version of XP media center 4.0. It crashed
| recently when i was using partition magic. It wont boot now and would display
| BSOD.
| I downloaded set of bootable disks for XP Professional (since there is none
| for XP media center) using
| http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F
|
| But it wont let me install. It would ask for third floppy and than i would
| get never ending message of "Please Wait".
|
| I went to support of partition magic and they say that i have to run chkdsk
| /f to repair it. So kindly let me know what should i do to get recovery
| console.
|
| I am sure that i dont have SP2 on my machine.
 
Carey,

Thanks for your response. Is there any way i can get bootable disk for
media center or is there any software that can read files in the format done
my partition magic..as i tried couple of file recovery softwares but it wont
read those files.

Is there any way i can get my files back...
 
If your computer crashed, or otherwise shut down, in the middle of using
Partition Magic, I am sorry to tell you that all information on your hard
drive is likely un-usable. Before doing anything of this nature you should
always BACK UP your important information. There is no viable recovery from
the problem that you have experienced. The information on your hard drive is
terribly corrupted at this point, along with the MBR (master boot record),
partition tables and the file tables.

If you had a "retail" version of Windows XP you could perform either a clean
install or a repair install. If you have the media that came with your
computer (and read the instruction manual) you will find that they give you
a way to bring the computer back to "out of the box" condition.



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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


mac said:
Carey,

Thanks for your response. Is there any way i can get bootable disk for
media center or is there any software that can read files in the format
done
my partition magic..as i tried couple of file recovery softwares but it
wont
read those files.

Is there any way i can get my files back...

Carey Frisch said:
Windows XP Pro setup disks will only work with Windows XP Pro
and not Windows Media Center. Why didn't you make a set of
"rescue disks" when prompted to do so by Partition Magic?

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Hi,
| My toshiba laptop has OEM version of XP media center 4.0. It crashed
| recently when i was using partition magic. It wont boot now and would
display
| BSOD.
| I downloaded set of bootable disks for XP Professional (since there is
none
| for XP media center) using
|
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F
|
| But it wont let me install. It would ask for third floppy and than i
would
| get never ending message of "Please Wait".
|
| I went to support of partition magic and they say that i have to run
chkdsk
| /f to repair it. So kindly let me know what should i do to get recovery
| console.
|
| I am sure that i dont have SP2 on my machine.
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No, there is no bootable setup floppy disks available
for Windows Media Center Edition. The CD itself
is bootable when you set the CD Drive as the first
bootable device in the BIOS.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| Do you know of any link that will allow me to create bootable disk for XP
| media center.
 
Chkdsk /f is likely to corrupt it even more than it is now, if you were in
the midst of a Partition Magic operation. Your best bet would be to take the
drive out and put it in another computer to see if you can salvage any of
the data. If that doesn't work, a computer shop with good recovery software
might help. or a data recovery company.

Once you've either gotten the data or given up on it, a clean install is
likely your best bet.
 
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