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dave s

Member
hi.how is everyone today.well i am new to this site.and i need a little bit of help.not sure if i should be posting this here.i have a emachine desktop and it is running windows xp.when i start it i just get a non stop boot loop process. i go into the bios i try safe mode i try system repair but does nothing. system repair just sits on loading. i have left for hours and nothing. cant restore from last know point. please help. and thanks.can i download anything to a disk and try and repair. i have no xp disk for the comp.
 

Terry60

Telephone Sanitizer (2nd Class)
Staff member
Use F8 as you boot to get into the XP extended boot menu, then select "no auto-restart".
The PC should then stop at the BSOD and allow you to see the error message causing your problem.
Do a web search on the error code for an indication of where the problem lies.
 

dave s

Member
k will try that. thanks

Addendum:

k well i tried that and i got.stop 0x00000024 (0x00190203,0x82fd6920,0xc0000102,0x00000000). what does that mean. or should i google it?
 
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Terry60

Telephone Sanitizer (2nd Class)
Staff member
That's a problem with your HDD file structure.
You can try running a chkdsk /r against the XP partition.
If you don't have an XP CD to boot into recovery console, you can get a bootable free partition manager which will enable you to try fixing the file structure.
If that doesn't get XP booting successfully, you're into a factory reset from the OEM recovery partition.
Before you do the latter, and preferably also before the former, you should rescue all of your user files like this
 

dave s

Member
so do i just dont load it to a disk and put it in the damaged comp.?thanks for the help.actually. how can i burn the iso file to my disk?do i save it somewhere and then burn it?

Addendum:

k well i got it to load the partion tool. but what do i do on it. not to sure please help
 
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