«
»

XP won’t boot or it wouldn’t be the first time I needed this…

Start your computer by using the Windows Setup floppy disks or your Windows XP CD. At the Welcome to Setup screen, press F10 or press R to repair, and start the Windows Recovery Console. After you start the Windows Recovery Console, you receive the following message: Microsoft Windows Recovery Console. The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality. Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer.

1: C:\WINDOWS

Which Windows Installation would you like to log onto? Type 1 or the number for the appropriate Windows installation. You’ll be prompted for the Administrator password for the machine. (No password, just press Enter.) Once you get past this, you’ll be presented with a DOS-like command line. Type the following line and press Enter: chkdsk /r

If chkdsk /r doesn’t do it, then look at how to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 1st, 2004 at and is filed under software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “XP won’t boot or it wouldn’t be the first time I needed this…”

  1. Jeff Arbor says:
    September 17, 2009 at

    Saw this during my Thursday night web searches. Amazing what stuff you can find doing a search XP repair ideas.
    Kind of caught me off guard.

    Thanks for posting.

  2. Steve says:
    September 17, 2009 at

    @Jeff Arbor – Damn, that post is over 5 years old! :)