Click Start. Wait for the process to finish. When you see the message Please select the operating system to start or hear the single beep, press [F8] to display the Windows Advanced Options menu. If the We apologize for the inconvenience message reappears: Select Safe mode. Restart the computer. Press Enter to start Windows XP. What is the boot command for Windows XP? Reset from Setup Screen Shut your computer down. Power your computer back up, and immediately press the key that enters the BIOS setup screen.
Use the arrow keys to navigate through the BIOS menu to find the option to reset the computer to its default, fall-back or factory settings. Restart your computer. Most of the time, you will get the following error messages which indicate a serious MBR problem: Error loading operating system. Invalid partition table. Operating System not found. No bootable medium found.
System halted. Non-System disk or disk error. C: is nearly always the HDD. Your HDD might be toast and not detectable, but perhaps someone else could chime in if I am incorrect.
Ensure that all the plugs are in the right spot and try the steps again. If you get the same result or hear any clicking, then the HDD is toast. Vipin: Glad to hear it worked for you therain: That sounds like it is trying to mount parts of your registry that are then making the command prompt bomb out.
Not sure what to do there without using a boot disc that can do offline registry fixing and I'm not going to be able to discuss that because we only support and recommend legal actions here. Still have the BSOD. Thanks a lot for the procedure To fix this I had to edit my boot. Just wanted to let people know that they might need to do some additional work not mentioned in this article. Elhassan It works just like a charm.
Your article saves my day. Thank you a lot. Will report back with the results! How can I recover that functionality? That command returns "The parameter is not valid. Shame On You! I hope you haven't led too many people into screwing their computers into oblivion, like most of the other Geek Squad wanabees have, already. This is true in Windows Some Command Line Interpreters might need "aattrib -r -s -h" without the quotes instead of "attrib -rsh" without the quotes to clear all the flags.
Summarily blowing away the boot. The people adding multi boot sequences should be tech-savvy enough to figure out the problem on there own or at least be able to google until they find an answer As far as a "multiboot environment" that's going to be pretty rare considering any PC, no matter what it is will always run better with a single OS rather then 2 or more Ehhh I dont know how valid this is. Maybe partially true, as in the "inner" OSs, those farther in on the disk, will be "slower" but that is only marginally so and if you are using a SSD, I would think that there would be zero performance degradation.
If you're using XP Pro and you have forgotten your admin password, you could reset it. I don't see the point in running multi OS's on one system unless it's a server. Such as one linux based OS for placing product orders and one OS for a work station environment.
I rearranged all files to be as close to the center of the disc to try to improve boot speed and the time it takes for switching OS's. Barely worth the effort My opinion stands. Unless you're in a work environment or wanting to "try" a new OS such as Ubuntu it's always better to use a single OS rather then two. It'll also save you gigs of space to boot That's not really true, I'm afraid.
A boot sector is a boot sector. Adding another OS shouldn't slow down the OS in the slightest. Also, the center of the disk is not the fastest. God Bless.
I used my operating system cd to get it to started back. It came back on but it partition my hard drive. I have a back up file on my C drive. Can I change those two files back and restore it or is there anything else I can do to restore my computer back the way it was? Saved on of my client's Production server on Windows NT. I'd suggest hooking you disk up to another system using a USB enclosure is the easiest way to do it , back up any data you can pull off it and replace the disk.
The blue screen appears before I can get so far. Your solution works fine for me. It is clear and easy to learn. You deserved a 10! I'm not posting this to slam the article - I loved it! It sent me looking in the right direction and taught me way more about Recovery Console than I ever knew. I love the part where it states "Neither of these procedures are cheap in the realm of commercial PC repair, nor do they inspire a tremendous level of confidence in the technician or the hopeful client.
But thanks geeksquad, because if it wasn't for you guys i wouldn't be so busy fixing the problems you either couldn't or caused. It worked form me. I am going to save this webpage in my Bookmarks.
Much better than saving all data first and then formatting and reinstalling Windows. I've spent three maddened days without access to my PC changing ribbon cables, testing different drives and all sorts of crap. If Internet Explorer is not listed in the Currently installed programs list, follow these steps:. Restart the computer in the Recovery Console. For more information about how to use the Recovery Console, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
In the Currently installed programs list, click Internet Explorer 7 or click Internet Explorer 8 , and then click Remove. For Windows Internet Explorer 7. Perform a Repair installation of Windows XP. After the Repair installation process is complete, start Internet Explorer 6, and then make sure that it works. Install the latest service pack for Windows XP. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
When Windows XP has been repaired and is running correctly, reinstall the later version of Internet Explorer. This installation package may still be on the computer from the first time that you installed the later version of Internet Explorer. Locate the installation package in the folder in which you saved the files.
Note This package may be located in the Temporary Internet Files folder. To connect to the Microsoft download site, you must have a functional Web browser. If Internet Explorer 6 does not work on the computer after you uninstall the later version of Internet Explorer, you cannot download the Internet Explorer installation package. Therefore, you will have to use a computer that has a functional Web browser to download the Internet Explorer installation package.
Then, use a shared network drive to install the program from the downloaded installation package on this other computer onto the repaired computer. If you cannot use a shared network for this purpose, copy the Internet Explorer installation package onto a CD on the second computer.
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