"Tweek" <shawnwinget123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Daniel" <daniel_h_wATyyahooDOTccom> wrote in message
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> > "kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> >> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:52:52 -0500, David Maynard
> >> <nospam@private.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Daniel wrote:
> >> >> I've got a problem where I cant boot into Windows XP Pro. I get an
> > error
> >> >> trying to load a corrupted file or something (usually whole system
> > locks, or
> >> >> I see the file its trying to load if I select safe mode). Booting
up
> > on my
> >> >> other XP install on an IDE drive & renaming the bad files doesn't
fix
> >> >> anything. (This happened after having the computer & surge protector
> > shut
> >> >> off for 10 days while I was away, power on, boot up, crash, cant
> > reboot.
> >> >> I've had other problems with this board & also now have lost the on
> > board
> >> >> NIC too.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety in there but what's wrong with doing
a
> >> >repair install?
> >> >
> >> > <snip>
> >>
> >>
> >> Agreed, that would seem a good attempt to get it working
> >> again. Remaining two issues are then why the problem,
> >> possibly a virus/etc that a repair won't remove, or a drive
> >> malfunction making it prudent to first copy off everything
> >> no matter what happens next.
> >
> > Sorry for not making that clear in the original post. The reason a
repair
> > install isn't looked at is because just a repair (twice) didn't fix it
> > (same
> > error), & I tried a complete reinstall (non-format) but canceled before
it
> > started anything because Windows warned me that a new install would kill
> > any
> > user accounts & files encrypted or protected by those user accounts.
> >
> > There is only a single folder outside of the documents & settings area
> > which
> > is blocked that I need to copy the contents of. Then reloading Windows
is
> > no problem.
> >
> >
>
> This might have been covered, but have you booted to the recovery console
> and run a chkdsk /r yet? If not try it, then if it still doesn't boot try
a
> repair install again.
>
No, not done that yet because cant get through forgotten admin password.
Well I'll have a SATA to IDE adapter next week & can crack it then, after
that I can do this.

Thanks for suggestion, not tried (or heard of that) yet. What does it do?