pc wont boot up now

[stevo25]

my brother decided to have a play with my pc and put ubuntu on it but partition the h/d 1st he did this not sure with what and then booted up the pc to check xp still ran and it didnt so he removed the partition and now it still wont boot up it hangs saying
searching for boot record form ide-0..ok
error loading operating system
and nothing else what can i do theres about 500 pics of my kids and a few movies i could do without loosing

[marksup]

I would start with giving your brother a good beating other than that I can't help.

[marcode]

in the event that u cant repair the OS (which you should be able to do by booting off the xp disc and trying a repair via the recovery console http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 ), dont worry about the pics.. as long as u dont do a full format, most of it should be easily recoverable by sticking the hd in another machine as a secondary drive.

moral of the story, always back up yer important pics/docs.

[Welsh Pete]

Personally, I`d whap the HDD out...borrow a mates PC...plug it into that...retrieve your data...now try to fix it.

As Marcode said, try a repair. You prolly wont find the recovery console any good but if you just boot from the XP disk, press enter first, then F8...now if it finds your windows it will now offer you the choice to repair...do this. Bear in mind however you will need your PRODUCT KEY. This should be on your case if genuine, or...well...I`ll leave you to figure it out

[stevo25]

cheers i'll try that and i have a genuine product key!!!!
i'll try it when i get home and report back

[Over Carl]

I would do as Pete said, first get the hdd out, backup all data, then if you want to, see if you can recover, but why not just use this as an excuse to wipe your machine and start it fresh again.

If product key is a problem, go to the ng's or bittorrent, download xp corporate edition, then find the keygen and crack (I think the crack has been posted on df and was called wgablinder or something). Will run fine without the crack, except you won't be able to use windows update.

[Mario87]

yup, as said above, but I'll just add that when you get into the recovery console, try the "FIXMBR", and "FIXBOOT" commands.

They fix the master boot record, and the boot record (they are what tell the PC how to boot into XP).

[nhbg16919]

my brother decided to have a play with my pc and put ubuntu on it but partition the h/d 1st he did this not sure with what and then booted up the pc to check xp still ran and it didnt so he removed the partition and now it still wont boot up it hangs saying
searching for boot record form ide-0..ok
error loading operating system
and nothing else what can i do theres about 500 pics of my kids and a few movies i could do without loosing

Want you need is another hard drive to load XP on, make this your master drive and make your original one slave , load windows, the original drive will be d drive search your drive for the pictures and burn them to cd or dvd or copy them to your now c drive, reverse the process , and keep people away from your pc that don’t respect it .

[Welsh Pete]

Want you need is another hard drive to load XP on, make this your master drive and make your original one slave , load windows, the original drive will be d drive search your drive for the pictures and burn them to cd or dvd or copy them to your now c drive, reverse the process , and keep people away from your pc that don’t respect it .

Lets complicate matters is it. Often there are ways to fix problems without spending unnessecary cash. Admittedly this would be an option, but not one I would consider first and foremost.

[nhbg16919]

Hi Pete admit this may seem a bit much, but i build - repair pcs so to me a quick option

[nhbg16919]

does any on know how to setup a euro-v** maxv 2008

[Welsh Pete]

I manage a PC shop, so I spend every waking hour fixing PC`s.

I`d at least try to resolve it cheaply before selling the customer a new HDD + reinstall cost.

[nhbg16919]

Try pressing F8 as soon as your boot screen comes on and see if you can get in to safe mode, less complicated

[DJ OD]

does any on know how to setup a euro-v** maxv 2008

What has this got to do with it?! Cable section is thataway... --->


DJ OD

[stevo25]

done all of the above so i'll ry the new h/d option as i have a 40g one to hand that was in a pc that i was gonna set up with ubuntu for the kids i'll report back and thanks to all

[danthescan]

done all of the above so i'll ry the new h/d option as i have a 40g one to hand that was in a pc that i was gonna set up with ubuntu for the kids i'll report back and thanks to all

Turns out it was a cheap option after all.
Must admit its what i would do as well, but who says you are going to sell the customer a new HDD, as we all got loads kicking round the workshop anyway.Its just an in /Install OS/recover/image/out with the temp.and jobs done.

[coin-op]

Try pressing F8 as soon as your boot screen comes on and see if you can get in to safe mode, less complicated

Hmm, but it won't boot - so no boot screen

[Undertaker]

either your master boot record is corrupt, fix this by booting via xp cd, go into recovery mode and type fixboot or fixmbr

the other thing maybe he has deleted your xp partition


also give him a slap and tell him next time use a livecd for ubuntu

[stevo25]

lol we had tried the live root and i sed i'll sort a seperate pc for it but doh he couldnt wait.tried fixboot and fixmbr and nowt doing hence sticking a h/d in with just the o/s which should be done by the time i get back home(in work now again)