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If your computer will not
boot-up at all, hopefully you have made a good emergency boot disk. You can
always make a windows startup disk by creating one from another computer running
Windows 98 or Me. Perform the following if your computer won't Boot-Up At All.
FIRST......Put your boot floppy
disk in the floppy drive and turn on the PC. On some computers, you may have to
access the bios and select the Boot priority to your A: drive.
Save any changes and select
"Start Computer without CDROM support" and press Enter. Once you are at the A
prompt, type dir c: and press enter.
If your programs and other
files are present, try restoring your system Registry by following the steps
below. This may repair Windows, the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to where
the PC may boot up normally. When the files are present, its a good indication
of a good hard drive.
SECOND......To correct the
problem of your computer not booting up, type in "fdisk /mbr" and press Enter to
restore your master boot record. Type "Scandisk C:" to check the hard drive for
errors that have occurred. You can also type "Sys C:" to hopefully restore files
needed to boot up your computer.
THIRD......If the above
procedures fail to repair your computer, you can repeat the first part of step
one above and select "Start Computer With CDROM Support" re-install Windows.
Making A Windows XP Bootable
Floppy
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a boot disk now by placing a formatted blank diskette in the A: drive, open
Windows Explorer to the C:,select Tools, Folder Options ,show Hidden files and
and folders, then View Tab.
Now you uncheck "Hide Protected
Operating System Files (recommended). You will see a warning and click Yes and
click OK. Copy the files ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini onto the disk. Remove
the disk and label it the Windows XP Boot Disk.
After making your boot disk,
recheck "Hide protected operating system files and folders (recommended)" in the
Folder Options dialog box.
To use the disk when Windows XP
won't boot, place the disk in the drive and then re-boot, the computer, Windows
simply bypass the basic boot files on the hard drive and continue to boot up.
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If The PC Won't Boot Pass
Windows
FIRST......If your Operating
System is Windows Millennium, turn on the computer and immediately press and
hold down the CTRL key. Once the startup options appear, release the CTRL key.
Select Safe Mode and press Enter. You are now in Windows limited version. If you
know what caused your computer not to boot, you can now either change or delete
that program.
SECOND....Repair your Registry
by selecting Start, Run and typing "scanregw /fix" and press enter. This will
fix any damage done to the Registry. You can also restore your registry which
replaces your current registry with an earlier copy that was backed up by your
computer. Click on Start, Run and type "scanregw /restore and press Enter.
To repair your Windows 98
Registry, hold down the CTRL key as you start the PC and select "Command Prompt
Only". Type "scanreg /fix" and press Enter and "scanreg/restore" to restore a
previously saved copy of the Registry.
If you have Windows XP, press
F8 after rebooting the PC should Windows freeze while booting up. You can select
"Last Known Good Configuration" after rebooting to allow the computer to boot
the last backed up files and you can choose "Safe Mode" to remove any files you
know caused the operating system to hang up
Be prepared when your operating
system fail. It would be a great idea to go over this article a few times and
print it. Make yourself s notebook and place this and all related articles
there.
If your computer fails to boot
or begins to become unstable, you can refer to these articles to make
corrections that are needed. Learn these steps from your television set with the
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Be sure to note any changes you
make to your Registry and if you're not sure, its best to find a friend that's
pc savvy first. Above all, be certain you back up your registry before making
any changes and know how to restore as well.
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