Help / advice asked Windows XP/boot device

[Gert van Santen]

The Dong schreef:
> Gert van Santen wrote:
>> Before going to the computer shop, is there anything that can be 
>> done / checked / changed or whatever?
> 
> You want to change your parents? :)
> 
> Sounds like either boot files corruption or disk errors/bad sectors.
> You may have to change the bios boot order for cdrom first.
> (change it back after)
> Boot from the original XP disk and choose the first option setup windows 
> xp now (enter key)
> It should go through a bit about license then come up with a screen 
> finding your XP install. THEN choose to repair.
> This is a reinstall repair, not using the repair with recovery console, 
> which is useless unless you know what to do there. It should check the 
> disk and reinstate the boot stuff.
> This also works for when you have upgraded too many parts (motherboard 
> change mainly) and XP refuses to boot any more (I did this a month ago)
> 
> No. 10 here:
> 
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=348

Excellent! Thanks a lot :-)

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