As if you havent seen this before...windows wont boot...

[randall]

So the other day i came in and turned on my lap top (compaq evo) running XP Pro and insted of booting up as normal i got a screen saying that "my computer was shut down improerly" and gave me th options of trying to A)start windows normally, B)start windows in Safe Mode, or C) trying to start windows in last know good configuartion. So i tried to start normally and it went through all the motions and got up to the part where windows should start but insted of opening windows it restarted and took me to the same screen. i thne tried safe mode and last know good configuartion but neither worked. They just did the same thing as when i tried to start normally.
Can any one help?

BTW i do not have a system recovery disk for Windows XP.

Thanks

[mjatas]

I had a similar problem with my P4 system and sadly I had to re-install Windows.

[Panama Red]

Contact Compaq (HP) and see if you can buy the recovery disks. Hopefully, it's not your hard drive that's crapped out.

[kstatefan40]

Seems like you have a corrupted hard drive. What brand of hard drive is it? My HP used Maxtor... but I don't know what Evo's used. Let me know and I'll give you a link to a diagnostic program to sniff out corrupted sectors.

Any strange activity recently? I've had customer's who obtained viruses get the classic corrupted disk problem.