Windows XP Home cannot boot

[Decepticon]

To my knowledge nothing was installed on the computer that could have triggered this problem.

Basically after the windows XP home loading screen (the one with the green progress bar) the screen goes black...and it just hangs there unless i reboot....

I cant get into safe mode or last best settings. I tried booting from the XP home cd and using the repair options however it appears (in my opinion) that there is no write or modification access to the hard drive??? is this possible?

The first message I get when i run the repair program is

Setup cannot delete the file: intro.avi

...so i hit esc to skip the file then it does the same thing for several other files. Then once those files are skipped i get a "Setup cannot create the folder:

\WINDOWS\system32\mui

Setup cannot continue until the folder is created.

To retry press enter

To quit press F3


...retry doesnt work and all i can do it quit.

Anyone had this problem? I cant format cos i cant get a dos prompt. The only other solution I can think of would be to use partition magic boot disk and partition the drive creating a new installation of windows hopefully being able to keep data from the other installation?

Hope someone can help.....thanks.

[Play_The_0dds]

when you boot from the home cd , do you get to the partition display page, if so delete the partition, then create the partition again, select it as the designation to install xp, and it should start the format, if the format does not go through, first i would check the ide/ribbon cable, next try a different drive, if the computer is under a manufacturer's warrenty, just call them up before you do anything. if the format does go through you should be able to reinstall xp just fine, good luck.

[qfisheye]

I think you are at the point, correct me if i'm wrong, where you just want to erase the hard drive, reload and move on? If this is so, figure out who manufactured your hard drive(wd, Maxtor, etc.,) . Go to the mfg. site and download their setup progran for the drive. It will be a bootable program and in 5 min your drive will be formatted and setup for your operating system.Then you will be able to install your operating system . Good luck

[wilfish4774]

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