Computer restarting in loop

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roy_rajat

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I have win2K pro installed on my computer and everything was absolutely fine till last night when i tried switching on the computer and it booted properly but just after the windows start up page the computer restarted by itself and this kept on doing again and again. I tried to log in safe mode but it didint help. I havent installed updated anything on my computer since past one month or so.....any suggestions?
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Raj
 
what are the specs of that comp? have u been overclocking it from teh bios? and also have u been moving the hardware around? when was teh last time u switched the comp on working?
 
it is celeron 2.4GHz, 512DDR RAM and radeon9000pro 128MB, 80GB maxtorHDD, floppy, DVD, CD and CD-RW. No i havent been overclocking it. I know i can get on to DOS prompt using a bootable CD. i have lost my win2K disk but had win98 disk which i used and i could get the prompt but i could not change directories...although i could execute the DIR command and view what is on my hard disk.
I also tried the usual stuff as booting in safe mode or booting into last known good config etc...but diodnt work.
I havent tried formatting as i want to know if there is any way of retrieving data before i do this drastic step!
 
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Pull the HDD and stick it in another computer if you have one (as a slave) and you can pull the data. The reason it's restarting is most likely because of a bad MBR. If you did a recovery console at all you'd see that it A. doesn't have one or B. doesn't have one that it can repair. You need to do what everyone else has been saying, re-install the OS.
 
just re-install or update/fix files with the O.S. disk. that should work. if not, ya, try the swap out of the HDD
 
tomprice43 said:
probably an OS problem, maybe boot.ini is corrupt. try using windows repair consol or reinstall windows.
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I already suggested that in my post. If he wants to take the chance using the recovery console then you better hope he knows what he's doing. AND if it is the MBR like [it is] then the recovery console won't do anything, you'd need to build it from scratch which is hard; again, if you don't know what you're doing. If you to a repair install there is a CHANCE you could loose the data so always back it up first.
 
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