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You May Lose Data or Program Settings After Reinstalling, Repairing, or Upgrading Windows XP
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Data Loss May Occur After Reinstalling, Repairing, or Upgrading Windows XP
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by: WakeupPosted on 2004-02-28 at 09:43:09ID: 10476708
To get to the recovery console....Boot off the WinXP CD. When you restart your computer WITH THE WINXP CD in the drive, it will/should ask you to HIT ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD (something like that) At that time you have about 2 or 3 seconds to press a key before it moves on to boot to the hard drive.
Once you've done that then you need to select R for recovery console. From there you have options such as this:
CHKDSK /R
Which will go in and see if there are any problems with the drive and some of the software.
Fixboot
to fix the boot sector.
Fixmbr
which will fix the mbr.
So I would suggest the Chkdsk /r first.
and then the later two if that didnt work.