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Originally Posted by andygrif
Have you tried the XP Recovery Console using the Win XP CD ROM?
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ill give that a whirl now
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Originally Posted by Stuartbe
Can you load in safe mode ( rapidly press f8 when you turn the machine on and select safe mode ) From there open a command prompt and type "chkdsk c:" If the problem is a currupted file system then this will fix it.
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got this info
C:\Documents and Settings\kronas>chkdsk c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)..
Security descriptor verification completed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the vo
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
120624020 KB total disk space.
100250620 KB in 66797 files.
26820 KB in 4837 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
154420 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
20192160 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
30156005 total allocation units on disk.
5048040 allocation units available on disk.
on the first load up, xp said it 'could not load my personal settings, and it could not find my desktop
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Originally Posted by hansi
remember the golden rule and always BACKUP!!
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thanks for the helpful advice
i was trying to last night, norton ghost kept on freezing
thanks to all who helped so far