When Windows fails to boot it is normally caused by
installation of a program or device which caused a conflict with one or more other programs. This will no doubt give you plenty of heartache if you're not certain which program caused Windows to not boot up.If you recently installed a program or application and know where it was installed,you may be in much better shape as for as correcting
error. Here are common ways to correct
problem of your computer not completely booting up or not booting up at all.
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
following if your computer........
Won't Boot-Up At All
FIRST......Put your boot floppy disk in
floppy drive and turn on
PC.On some computers, you may have to access
bios and select
Boot priority to your A: drive.Save any changes and select "Start Computer without CDROM support" and press Enter.Once you are at
A> prompt,type dir c: and press enter.
SECOND....If your programs and other files are present,your hard drive is good.Try to repair or restore your system Registry by following
steps below.This may repair Windows,the Config. Sys and autoexec.bat files to where
PC may boot up normally.
THIRD......If
above procedure did not correct
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
hard drive for errors that may have occurred. You can also type "Sys C:" to hopefully restore files needed to boot up your computer.
FOURTH......If
above procedures fail to repair your computer,you can repeat
first part of step one above and select "Start Computer With CDROM Support" re-install Windows.
Making A Windows XP Bootable Floppy
Windows XP users should create a boot disk now by placing a formatted blank diskette in
A: drive, open Windows Explorer to
C:,select Tools,Folder Options ,show Hidden files and and folders,then View Tab.