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    Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    Hi! Thanks for reading! My cousin is having some windows problems. The computer starts up, then goes to a Black screen with white text, saying that windows could not start normally, could be due to a hardware change. Then it lists various safe mode options, and all of the options start the pc up, and then lead back to this page. Earlier this morning, apparentley a adobe update dialog came up, and he clicked "no". Then the computer froze, and went into this cycle.

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    Re: Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    sorry never understood post properly what version of windowss
    Last edited by Virogenesis; April 4th, 2006 at 02:56 AM.
    Quote Originally Posted by jeremy View Post
    I think that ms's future will be a drunken and down-on-his-luck Steve Balmer on a beach somewhere in South America or the far east, trying to convince bored american tourists that he used to be important.

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    Re: Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    No new hardware, XP home

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    Re: Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    Try here for answers
    Code:
    http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html
    If nothing else works, and you have a proper install CD (not a recovery cd that wipes everything) then do a repair install. This will preserve your settings and files.

    Make sure your PC can boot from CD first (fix this in the bios if needs be)

    Insert Xp CD
    let it boot
    Select Install Windows
    Press R to repair XP
    Add product key, network and regional info as required
    Wait 30 minutes
    Job done

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    Re: Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    Thank you! Unfortunatley, Sony is very kind, and he doesnt have a good cd. He will be trying to get one from work. Also, to get a backups of his photos, I will have him get a linux live cd, and walk him through using K3b to burn all his photos to CD

    I am thinking knoppix, or mepis.

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    Re: Windows WILL NOT BOOT- Need help for a relative

    try the support forums.

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