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 Aug 22, 2005 - 11:33 AM
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My girlfriend has a laptop running windows XP and when we try to turn the computer on it goes to the start up screen and then won't take us to the desktop screen . I try restarting in safe mode and a couple of other modes but no matter what it won't go past the start up screen. I am pretty much computer illiterate so any help will be much appreciated.
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Aug 23, 2005 - 9:03 AM
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XP Home: If you have a boot disk then just run off of it then choose to do a repair when you enter the repair command line screen type in "chkdsk" then "fixmbr" then "exit" and reboot, it takes less than 5 minutes and if that doesn't work you'll need to re-install the OS.
XP Pro: Just choose the repair option at the partition selection screen when you boot off the disk it'll replace the OS without loosing any files. |
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SiN_CeLi help with pc Aug 22, 2005 - 11:33 AM
Jdog1385 damn, doesnt sound good. probably a virus. your ... Aug 22, 2005 - 12:23 PM SiN_CeLi Thats what I was afraid of. Thanks for the input j... Aug 23, 2005 - 12:37 AM Makaveddie Find a friend who knows about computers... he may ... Aug 23, 2005 - 3:15 AM soulshadow Instead of going into safe mode. I believe there i... Aug 23, 2005 - 6:31 AM LewFX did you install anything before you start it? a n... Aug 23, 2005 - 11:11 AM
CheesyLobster Send it to me. I do that stuff for a living and I ... Aug 24, 2005 - 6:14 AM |
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