My laptop recently just stopped working and I cant actualy log in or anything, I'm told rebooting as explained above would solve the problem but unfortunatly I have lost my windows xp cd?!?!?
What can I do without one is there anyway i can burn whatever is needed onto a disk on this computer then transfer it to my laptop and use it to reboot?
Ive asked everyone I can think of if they have a disk i could borrow but just cant find one!

Thankyou xx

HI all

What's the difference between:
- repair the selected windows xp installation

- repair the selected windows xp installation using recovery console
?

Tks in advance for your help

Oli

i didn't make my boot disks for my netbook (advent 4211) which is xp. is there anyway i can reboot my computer to factory settings? it won't start up i get a boot failure but ran checks and my hard drive and everything is ok, i think it's due to partitions, but i'd rather reboot my netbook.

thanks

if I do this will I lose all my documents, programs etc...

I'm trying to repair Windows XP (Service Pack 3) after some of the system files were corrupted by a nasty virus that was downloaded when a visitor used this computer. Previously, I NEVER used THIS computer to connect to the internet (this one is used for my recording studio only, I have another computer for everything else) so I had no AV programs installed. Subsequently I installed AV protection and cleaned the system. The remaining issue is (so it appears) that the virus corrupted some system files. I tried the method outlined in this thread: boot from WinXP CD, but when I press enter to start the setup, the setup program reports it can't find any hard drives! Well, I'm currently in Windows and writing this reply over the internet, so there are clearly hard drives. I don't know what the problem is with the setup program, but I am unable to repair windows. I have thought about rolling back to an earlier configuration, but am not sure what I would be losing and would need to reinstall. Guess I could go through Control Panel > Add and Remove Programs to determine when each app was first installed and use this list to discover what would have to be reinstalled, but ? is there an easier way?

I dont have a CD and when i try to F11 to get to reset factory settings it reads an error message. please help, i need to restore factory settings.

Linni

ps. I'm using XP Home Edition from 2004

This post has been edited by Linni_T_mm: Oct 28 2009, 04:01 PM

Hello Linni_T_mm.... Welcome to GeeksToGo,

I'm sorry to hear about your issue. We will try to help you resolve this as soon as possible.
Please understand we are all volunteers and we are not here all the time. Sometimes it may be a extended amount of time to get back to you. If it has been more then 3 days please shoot me a PM and I will try to get back to you quickly then. Please start a new topic in the XP forum and we can continue with the assistance there.

One thing is you posted no information about your system so we can assist you.

hello.
i am having problems with my computer. im using windows xp and the problem is my computer's been having blue screen errors (i don't know what type of error it is but the same errors appear every time i open my computer) since i installed my newly bought wifi connection. i tried to uninstall the wifi but my computer automatically restart and i cant open it so i tried to open my computer the next day and it does. I began reformating my computer using another windows xp installer but after i successfully installed windows xp and the other drivers, blue screen errors starting to appear again and i cannot open my computer also. what can i do to fix it?

Hey guys,

I'm new here, and I am having some problems with windows xp with what I believe is a rootkit called "catchme". I can't start the computer in safe mode, and when I start it normally, I can't do anything productive. I've followed the steps laid out at the start of this topic, and gotten to the point where the partitions are laid out. There are 4 separate partitions, -: Partition 1 [FAT], C: Partition2 [NTFS], F: Partition4 <MEDIADIRECT> [FAT32], and E: Partition3 [FAT32]. In terms of size, partition 2 is the largest. There is also 8 MB of unpartitioned space.

Now my question is, since there is no windows xp listed here, does that mean I will lose all of my data? I have quite a bit of music, so I'm hoping that's not the case.

Also, I was on windows recovery console before finding this website, and went through the listsvc and found what I believe was the problem in a listing under "computer browser" called catchme.

Thanks for any help and for the time in reading this, and double thanks if you can help me fix this without losing my music.

I am having a problem, when i start to format my PC it says hard disk corrupted, how i can i install window on it, leaving that corrupted part aside.

Please help???