Boot loop win xp

[cablefreejunkie]

Have a look see what partitions are avail in disc manager

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My hdd has no partitions
Just 70gb

[Cod3waX]

so u have put the old xp hdd into the caddy and have hooked it up to ur sons windows 7 and switched it on

click my computer u should see a new drive & letter appear
click on it like u would normally and u will see ur old folders
click users then u see the name of ur old xp computer click that n that will show u ur files

then open up ur save location for the files usb stick / using a burning program or just making a new folder on ur sons desktop and drag n droping the files u want to save
then u can start messing around trying to fix ur xp windows without the worry of loosing any files

if ur still stuck gimme a call 01934 204298 n will run thru it over the phone

[cablefreejunkie]

so u have put the old xp hdd into the caddy and have hooked it up to ur sons windows 7 and switched it on

click my computer u should see a new drive & letter appear
click on it like u would normally and u will see ur old folders
click users then u see the name of ur old xp computer click that n that will show u ur files

then open up ur save location for the files usb stick / using a burning program or just making a new folder on ur sons desktop and drag n droping the files u want to save
then u can start messing around trying to fix ur xp windows without the worry of loosing any files

if ur still stuck gimme a call 01934 204298 n will run thru it over the phone

Cant get to the comp at the mo
But when i plugged it in clicked my comp no new letter drive showed up just hdd recovery

[TheCoder]

Its unusual for safe mode not to work unless your PC has some form of hardware problem. From what you say its possible you've had some kind of disk error which has resulted in something crucial being corrupted. Unfortunately, there's really not too much option in this circumstance but to reload windows, preferably on another HDD. Booting into the windows install cd and using the repair option may fix the problem but it may also make things worse (especially if files are cross-linked).

So, if you have an old HDD (from above it appears you do) then remove your present one entirely for now and install the old one. At this point i'd probably run a low-level disk checker to confirm there's nothing seriously wrong with the old disk. If its had a head crash the you may as well discard it at this point as chances are it will simply become more and more damaged quite rapidly. I thik Hirens boot does disk checks but if not you can usually download tools from the drive manufacturers website.

If the old HDD passes, the proceed to do a new windows install to get your pc back to a working state. Once you've accomplished that then you can attempt what was suggested above and use an external USB caddy. You should be able to just plug that in as a usb device to get access to your drives data assuming that the drive is still functional.

if the drive isn't functional then i'm afraid your into the realms of specialist recovery (pretty expensive) or biting the bullet and writing off your data.

I know you've probably already learnt the lesson but just to re-iterate - BACKUPS OF IMPORTANT DATA IS ESSENTIAL. A first line (and a very simple one) is a USB stick. With 16Gb sticks only costing ?15 these days there's really no excuse. Plug it in, copy files, job done !. For longer term backup write DVD's - time consuming but worth the effort. This is especially useful to backup your system files as you can create a disk-set which includes all your applications. This can save hours of re-installation. Online 'vaults' can also be useful for backing up important data. ISP's etc often give away a few Gb of online dataspace for this purpose. Make sure you encrypt stuff you vault though - you never know who may have access.

[Cod3waX]

rite thats ok its just unallocated i hope

ok when u have it all plugged in and switched on right click my computer and select manage then select disk management let this load

so now u should see ur sons C drive windows & D drive cd/dvd rom ? now u should see also ur xp hdd all greyed out called unallocated right click this and give it drive Letter u wil have a drop down box to choose from

once thats done go back to my computer and u should see ur xp drive

[cablefreejunkie]

ok so ive taken the hdd out of my lappy put it in the caddy and plugged it into the other lappy
it shows up as f drive,when i try and get in it says f drive is not accesible...parameters are incorrect
anyone know what this means and what i do next
thanks

[cunny]

Mate. Put it back in the lappy. Download a version of winxp and run the recovery console and use the chkdsk /r command. Your file system sounds a little outta whack.

The other options, instal win xp on the drive but dont format will work.

If you did format. I have a good recovery program here for recovering files

[cablefreejunkie]

Mate. Put it back in the lappy. Download a version of winxp and run the recovery console and use the chkdsk /r command. Your file system sounds a little outta whack.

The other options, instal win xp on the drive but dont format will work.

If you did format. I have a good recovery program here for recovering files

ok have you got a link where i can dl xp,,not sure if you can post that up so pm me if you have cheers

[cunny]

When I can get on pc will sort somethin out. Win 98 boot files on usb might do it

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[cablefreejunkie]

When I can get on pc will sort somethin out. Win 98 boot files on usb might do it

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would appreciate that
im shitting bricks at the mo cause my wedding pics are on there and i have no back up
my mrs will string me up if ive lost them

[haribo]

as long as the drive aint physically damaged you will get the files from it..
XP disk would be bad for me to point towards torrents or newsgroups?
did you not got the mini-xp other day to run from hirens disk?,

[Cod3waX]

get it back in that caddy

here do this

1. Type in cmd in the Start Search box
2. Right click on cmd.exe that shows up and choose Run as Administrator
3. Run chkdsk command on the faulting drive

Type this in CMD with the spaces


chkdsk /F /R /X F:

sit and wait

F is only on the end of the command line because of the drive letter that it has been given if this changes when u plug it in next change the letter on the end of the command line


This should fix ur error

let me know

[cunny]

as long as the drive aint physically damaged you will get the files from it..
XP disk would be bad for me to point towards torrents or newsgroups?
did you not got the mini-xp other day to run from hirens disk?,

That is kinda the route i was going to take if a copy of xp cant be located fast. The reason i asked about winxp as its a easier option than hirens.

Mini xp should allow you to pull your files from the hdd depending on the state its in

You could keep it in the caddy and do it cod's way also. Either way a full chkdsk needs to be ran.

[haribo]

getting data is most important id imagine... he has a tosh recovrry dvd to get it running again. chkdsk can take loooooooooooooong time

from my android baby...

[cablefreejunkie]

getting data is most important id imagine... he has a tosh recovrry dvd to get it running again. chkdsk can take loooooooooooooong time

from my android baby...

Morning peeps
I have put the hdd into the caddy and run chkdsk
It started last night at 7 pm ish And i get up this morning at 5 am for work and its only 52% through !!!!
Is this normal ??