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01-30-2003, 07:15 PM
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Help! system wont boot!
I have an IBM thinkpad 57E and i tried to install xp ontop of win2000. Now my system wont startup. It starts to, but then it just freezes. all my assignments are on the system. what can i do?
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01-30-2003, 07:18 PM
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How far does it get?? Can you get to the menu that will give you the options, like safe mode and 'last known good configuration'??
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01-30-2003, 07:25 PM
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i can press F1 which gives me 5 options that are as follows:
Config Date Password Startup Restart. hope that helps thanx trin |
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01-30-2003, 07:30 PM
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No, thats your BIOS, does it get any further?? You want to hold down the 'ctrl' key right after the BIOS screen. That black and white screen with everything listed, right before windows begins to load try holding dow the 'ctrl' key. You should get some menu bootup options like safe mode and last known good configuration.
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01-30-2003, 07:53 PM
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holding down ctrl key doesnt work? it shows the bios screen and then it immeidately shows a meter filling up at the bottom of the screen. The meter gets filled really quick, then all i am left with is a thick white line at the bottom of the screen and then nothing happens. ive tried twice to press the ctrl key but get nothing.
thanx for your help trin |
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01-30-2003, 08:21 PM
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Try pressing F8 during that time. If that doesn't work, try pressing both of your Ctrl keys.
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01-30-2003, 08:57 PM
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ok..after i hit F8 i get the menu that has lots of options including safte mode and last known good configuration.
which option should i select from here |
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01-30-2003, 09:00 PM
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i went ahead and selected last known good config., and it gave me the option to start xp professional. But it does not give me the option to select my old o/s which was win2000. when i selected xp pro, the same thing happened, which is nothing.
hope that helps trin |
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01-31-2003, 07:16 AM
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That is what I was afraid of, it went far enough along in the winXP load so that it is kind of in Limbo now cause it doesn't have win2000 anymore, but winxp has problems. Boot with the WinXP cdrom choose install then it should give you the option to repair the current winxp installation. It's worth a shot and I don't think it can hurt any worse right now.
When you loaded winXP, did you do it from windows, and did you choose the upgrade option?? Last edited by ktkendall; 01-31-2003 at 07:18 AM. |
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02-03-2003, 10:01 PM
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ok.so still trying to fix my pewter. I am booting from some floppy disks now because I dont have a cd rom drive on my laptop, but now it gets through all 5 floppy disks and then at the very end it says to insert the cd into the drive. but i dont have a cd rom drive so what do i do. it cancels the install and i am back at square one.
thanx trin |
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02-03-2003, 10:51 PM
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You might ask your prof for an extension on your homework....gulp.
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02-04-2003, 07:08 AM
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Do you not have a cdrom at all, or is it one of those kind that you can not have floppy and cdrom at the same time?? The winxp cdrom is itself bootable, so you should be able to forget the floppies and set laptop to boot from cdrom, assuming you have cdrom available.. How did you do the original upgrade?
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