Can someone please help me repair Windows on my PC?

Question

I have a good PC, but when I started it up this morning everything looked fine, the boot screen and everything else, but then it stayed on the Windows loading Screen: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/images/installing%20windows%20xp/xp%20install%2040.gif and then it reboots. It keeps repeating. I have Ubuntu also installed (via Wubi [Dual-boot machine]) and I could select that and it ran fine (using now). When I click to go into safe mode it sows a bunch of code and says it's going into Safe Mode. It then reboots once again!
I've tried running the XP Setup CD But there's no repair option on the "Select Partition" Screen when XP is highlighted. I have a program called PC Angel which can completely reset my hard-drive but I would appreciate it if I could keep all of my files, programs, and settings. I will use PC Angel if I am forced to by having no other options. I won't give up hope...Until maybe the end of the week. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Answer 1

I think it is on the next screen after that and it is an option in the bar on the bottom. If not, it is the screen after that. The great thing about that installer is it gets you uncomfortably close to wiping out windows before giving the restore option.



But ya, sounds like you have a corrupt file or some bad memory. Try going into the bios and disabling fast boot or enabling the boot system memory test. If the memory passes, it is a bad file.



Instead of selecting safe mode, try one of the other options that is like step by step confirmation or something. It will ask you before loading each file. Remember each file name before approving it. The one you just approved before the computer restarts is likely the problem. Replace it from within the other OS.



If you keep having problems, email me and I might be able to give you more help. I know it really sucks to lose all your files.

Answer 2

Sit down and get comfortable. You are having a problem with you boot sequence and having the 3rd party boot loader is only making it worse.



First, logon to Ubunto and save all of you stuff to an external drive. You want to do this to make sure you don’t loss any of your files during this process.



After that’s dune (don’t restart just yet) insert the windows CD and restart your computer. When prompted to hit any key to boot from the CD, do so. After the windows setup loads (the blue screen) hit “R” to repair the computer using the recovery consol. Be sure not to install the recovery consol (it’s a very useful tool, but can be annoying to have as one of your boot options). Once the repair consol loads, you will be prompted to chose witch windows installation that you want to repair (usually #1) then you need to enter your password (if you made one for windows). Now that you’re in the RC, you will need to rewrite your boot sector and rebuild the windows boot loader. To do that you will need to enter in a few commands in the command prompt.



I’m not exactly sure what the names of the commands are but if you type “help” you will get a list of commands. The first one is (I think) fixmbs (or fixmbr) witch will rewrite the boot sector. The next command is fixboot witch will rebuild the boot.ini file. Restart the computer by typing exit.



Now that you have the windows boot loader in place and working, you can use one of Windows built in little helpers. Its called the last know good configuration. To use this, hit the F8 key repeatedly while the computer first starts. This will put you in the advanced start options menu. Down on the bottom of the list, there will be the last know good configuration. Select it and hit enter. This should get you into Windows. If that doesn’t work, then perform a system restore in the same menu select recover using system restore. That will let you go back to the last system restore point.



If all ells fails, use your Ubunto disk to get into Ubunto, save all of your windows doc’s to an external hard drive and reinstall Windows.



GOOD LUCK!!

Answer 3

Restore your computer.

Answer 4

ok i'm not a nerd but just buy a new one!!



He hee hee yea im prepy