Hey. I have got a laptop which have gone into a boot loop. I cant use any of
the safe mode alternatives, it boot loops anyhow. Trying safe mode, I see
the drivers needed loading, then I see a bluescreen that dont last long
enough for me to read what says and it reboots. Is there a way to hold that
bluescreen so I can see what it says?

I have a boot disc of some kind, simulating windows from a CD, so I am able
to access the harddrive from there. After I looked into some system restore
points, it looks like the last that happened on the machine was a lot of
windows updates, so I think maybe some of the windows files have become
corrupt. Is there a way to roll back to one of those restore points when I
dont have access to the windows they are made in?

When I tried to put in the windows CD, and get to the install part where
Windows have detected the disc and it usually shows me an option to do a
repair of the allready installed OS, I only get the option to install on the
selected drive. Would an install overwrite the disc, or would it repair the
files allready there?

Been thinking I maybe could replace some of the boot files with boot files
from a W-XP-SP2 CD. If that is possible, which files would I need to
replace?

Thanks in advance, Øystein.

If you press F8 during startup before windows starts then one of the options
is "not to reboot on error" (or words to that effect.

Neil
"Øystein" <ostraat@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey. I have got a laptop which have gone into a boot loop. I cant use any
> of the safe mode alternatives, it boot loops anyhow. Trying safe mode, I
> see the drivers needed loading, then I see a bluescreen that dont last
> long enough for me to read what says and it reboots. Is there a way to
> hold that bluescreen so I can see what it says?
>
> I have a boot disc of some kind, simulating windows from a CD, so I am
> able to access the harddrive from there. After I looked into some system
> restore points, it looks like the last that happened on the machine was a
> lot of windows updates, so I think maybe some of the windows files have
> become corrupt. Is there a way to roll back to one of those restore points
> when I dont have access to the windows they are made in?
>
> When I tried to put in the windows CD, and get to the install part where
> Windows have detected the disc and it usually shows me an option to do a
> repair of the allready installed OS, I only get the option to install on
> the selected drive. Would an install overwrite the disc, or would it
> repair the files allready there?
>
> Been thinking I maybe could replace some of the boot files with boot files
> from a W-XP-SP2 CD. If that is possible, which files would I need to
> replace?
>
> Thanks in advance, Øystein.
>

Does your computer have an OEM WIN XP installation or do you have a retail
version?

You could try to repair current install or parallel install Win XP.

Also, try what Neil suggested!!

Have added any new software or hardware to this computer?

--
Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.


"Øystein" wrote:

> Hey. I have got a laptop which have gone into a boot loop. I cant use any of
> the safe mode alternatives, it boot loops anyhow. Trying safe mode, I see
> the drivers needed loading, then I see a blue screen that don't last long
> enough for me to read what says and it reboots. Is there a way to hold that
> blue screen so I can see what it says?
>
> I have a boot disc of some kind, simulating windows from a CD, so I am able
> to access the hard drive from there. After I looked into some system restore
> points, it looks like the last that happened on the machine was a lot of
> windows updates, so I think maybe some of the windows files have become
> corrupt. Is there a way to roll back to one of those restore points when I
> don't have access to the windows they are made in?
>
> When I tried to put in the windows CD, and get to the install part where
> Windows have detected the disc and it usually shows me an option to do a
> repair of the already installed OS, I only get the option to install on the
> selected drive. Would an install overwrite the disc, or would it repair the
> files already there?
>
> Been thinking I maybe could replace some of the boot files with boot files
> from a W-XP-SP2 CD. If that is possible, which files would I need to
> replace?
>
> Thanks in advance, Øystein.
>
>
>