Pc Wont Boot Up/HELP!

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oinkypig

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Ok, so the other day i was starting my pc up, and it gave me an error "A disk error occurred." I spent all day fixing it, running a bunch of crap on it. (recovery mode, seatools hdd test, ect.) it happened to be a currupt boot.ini file. so i rebuilt the file, but i had made 3 other boot.ini files on accident. i edited the file cutting out the other 2 window boots and I shut my pc down. Next day came around, started up my pc and this time i dont even get an error. I am in an everlasting loop of my computer restarting. I cant even get the windows screen. after the ASUS COMP. screen pops up everything turns black and it reboots. Ive run CHDSK a bunch of times, fixboot, seatools, and tried rebuilding the boot.ini file. i have had NO luck whatsoever with it so now I am coming to the trusty folks here.
So heres my problem
1. A disk error
2. rebuilt boot.ini (pc started up fine)
3. edited & deleted other boots from boot.ini file
4. shut down pc
5. continuous rebooting loop
6. HELP
Please help me out with this one. THX FOR REPLIES!
 
Did it come with a restore disk? sounds to me like that would be your only option if you cant even start up in safe mode
 
no no, i have a window xp restore disk. if what i posted earlier says i used chkdsk and all which pertains to the recovery mode in the windows XP sp2 CD install cd. right now im running chdsk /r on it, right now im like 2 hours into it and its only at 61%. big HDD
 
Ok, if that dont work then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall windows. But i hope you wont have to do that and loose everything on the drive.
 
already ran all the chkdsk's, i even got seatools+(seagates hdd test app) and i ran it. it took about 3 hours wto finish and it said i had no errors or anything. i think that some of my boot files are messed up. isnt there a way to reinsatll windows w/o erasing my data?
 
ok ive made some progress. i did a non destructive reinstallation of windows xp and now when my pc can get onto the windows splash screen, but then a BSOD apperas for a spit second and my pc reboots. i cant boot into safe mode(it restarts)
the numbers on the blue screen start out with 0x0000007B
 
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ive got a seagate Barracuda 300gb ATA IDE. ive gotten it to show the windows splash screen, which is some improvement, so i am running chkdsk /r on it right now, and a bunch of other recovery tools. trying to get this 2 work
ps the setup in my sig is my primary pc, im talking about my other pc.
 
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