XP won't boot

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Daniel

I had XP running fine for months. Yesterday, I rebooted
and got the screen that informs me the machine was
improperly shutdown. It asks me to choose one of the 5
options: Safe Mode, Safe Mode w. Networking, Last good...,
Normal.

Anyway, when I select any of these the system reboots and
asks brings me to the same screen again.
 
Does it say unmountable boot volume? I had this problem about 2 months
ago. I have an HP and an OEM version of XP and had to get a Recovery
Console CD sent to me from HP. There are instructions on Microsoft's
website on how to fix this but if you have an OEM version of XP then
those instructions won't work. There is also a patch/update to prevent
it from happening again.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315403
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;297185
and the patch/update is the "Critical Update, February 10, 2002"
 
Daniel said:
I had XP running fine for months. Yesterday, I rebooted
and got the screen that informs me the machine was
improperly shutdown. It asks me to choose one of the 5
options: Safe Mode, Safe Mode w. Networking, Last good...,
Normal.

Anyway, when I select any of these the system reboots and
asks brings me to the same screen again.
Click to expand...

Have you tried booting from the XP CD and going to the first repair prompt
you see then running FixMBR and also chkdsk /p at all?

They may not be the ultimate answer but there are nasty progs circulating
that change the way your machine boots just to piss you off. If that doesn't
work and you cant get into Windows in either normal or safe mode, you might
have to do a full repair install (that is XP on top of XP).
 
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