- computer stalls ar f8 screen
- Posted by Sean McCarty on December 26th, 2005
recently ran system restore to the day before. took 3 minutes to finally
restart, went to f8 screen and stopped there, i tried all options on screen
and all computer does is restart back to f8 screen again. what can i do?
- Posted by Marvin on December 26th, 2005
Hi,
Have you got the XP disk? If so then you can boot from that and do a
repair install.
--
Marvin
- Posted by Sean McCarty on December 26th, 2005
Marvin
Once I get into the Recovery mode to the command prompt, what would i go
about doing? Have run chkdsk /p and chkdsk/r, those have not worked. should i
run bootcfg/rebuild? not sure which direction to go in
thanks, sean
"Marvin" wrote:
> Hi,
> Have you got the XP disk? If so then you can boot from that and do a
> repair install.
>
> --
> Marvin
>
>
>
- Posted by Marvin on December 26th, 2005
How Do I Do a "Repair Installation"?
Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more information
about how to do this, please refer to your computer's documentation or
contact your computer manufacturer.
Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM
drive, and then restart your computer.
(You can also boot with a Windows 98/Me Startup disk with CD support and run
WINNT.EXE in the I386 folder on the CD)
When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your
screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen,
press ENTER:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is
displayed. Do not select this option.
On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the
license agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the
box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
--
Marvin
