Re: xp hangs on load
- From: "JAD" <kapasitor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:58:02 -0700
"~1Alex~" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I went over to help a neighbor out and ran into a problem I hand't seen
> before.
> XP won't finish the load, hangs with a dialog box that says unable to load
> explorer or something like that.
> It's a Compaq running a 1.6 gig celeron cpu. about 3 years old.
> Hitting F8 it starts to come up in safe mode, and hangs in the same spot.
> Hitting F10 runs a compaq restore, but it hangs in the same spot.
> The owner didn't make restore disks, and none came with his system.
> The book said to make them before a problem arose. duh...
>
never heard this before, restore Disks have always come with a compaq, even
the laptops.
no XP disk either?
a repair install of XP could work, but no disks no luck fixing this.
from safe mode command prompy only try:
c:scanreg /fix or scanreg /restore [space] between g and the slash
There is a partition on the hard drive that has the restore data, however,
> I think it only works with the restore disks had they been created.
>
> Has anyone run into this and is there a work around other than
> buying a retail copy of XP and rebuilding the system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
.
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