Problem Booting Windows XP

BoyHitzCar · #1 07-10-2005, 10:33 AM

Ok...specs are...
Amd 64 3200+ Processor
80 gig WD sata150 hard drive
Windows XP Professional
CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

Ok, heres the problem....about 2 hours ago, I was working on my computer just doing the usual serving of the web, and all of a sudden something big blew up outside. It sounded like one of those transformers on the electrical poles blew out. Then all of a sudden the whole house lost power, and my computer shut down. After about 1 minute, the power came back up. I powered on my computer, and now it refuses to boot properly. It loads the Boot Screen, like it wants to boot, but just could never get around to it and all of a sudden, the comp restarts itself. I have tried booting in Safe Mode as well.I dont have a boot disk laying around either, and I usually do I have a newly bought laptop, however, it does not have a floppy drive. So hopes of making a boot disk are gone. I was curious as to how I would go about this problem. I'm sure that a Windows File is prolly just corrupt, and that is the cuase of the reboot. No hardware was fried in this litte outtage. I checked and double-checked all cabling and everything. So, that leads me to WIndows failure obviously. I know I should run chkdsk, but I am unable to, cuz I cant get to a dos prompt, or I dont have a boot disk around? Can I make a CD Boot? and if so, how? Thx in adavance...

pip22 · #2 07-10-2005, 11:10 AM

even if you could make a bootable floppy it would most likely do you no good - all you could do with it is boot to a DOS prompt, and DOS can't read or write to NTFS (Windows XP) partitions. That means any DOS-based utility wouldn't work. The chkdsk supplied with XP is console-based, using DOS emulation. You can access this by booting from any XP CD (can you borrow one?) and pressing 'R' when prompted, to run the recovery/repair console. This allows you to run the XP version of checkdisk.

BoyHitzCar · #3 07-10-2005, 11:13 AM

Yea, your completly right. I cant believe I forgot about that, lol. Now I just gotta find my XP CD, which I dont believe is here. Hey, thx alot for the posts, I appreacite it.