weird xp crash?

Kevinaz

Kevinaz

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hi,

I recentley heard about where you can create a shortcut, and assign it to shutdown.exe (or whatever it's called) and also assign a delay from the time where you select the icon, and the actual shutdown. ( I hope you understand what i'm talking about).

Well I started this icon shutdown method, and gave it 2 mins. to shut down. I completley forgot that I had started the icon shutdown, and out of force of habbit, started to shut down the regular way (start menu) while the other icon was shutting down xp. So basically I was shutting down the computer twice at the same time. Realizing my mistake, I quickly cut the power to the computer and basically shut down everything all at once. (Another big no-no).

Ever since then, as soon as I boot up the computer, I get a dos message asking which way to boot up windows. "safe mode" or "last known good configuration" or "normal startup" etc...

No matter which way I choose to startup, it gets about 5 seconds into the win xp startup screen, very quckly flashes the bsod (to fast to read what it says), and then restarts, and goes through the same process all over again.

1) Has anyone had this problem before or konws what it is? 2) does anyone know how to fix it?
My guess to fix it would be to repair xp, but I think i've used the repair limit on my xp cd, and if not, i'm not so sure that it's XP itself, it might be the icon still trying to shut down xp as soon as it starts.

Sorry to make this so long winded. ANY ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kevinaz
 
Try starting the system restore feature from the Safe Mode/Command Prompt Only option seen in the Windows F8 startup menu. There you can use a restore point(hopefully) to go back before the registry was altered. Once at the command prompt there type in "
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe" without quotes and press the enter/return key.

This will bring up the calendar for going back before the changes were made IF? you have any points to use? Otherwise a repair install is the other option there. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
Good idea pc eye, (I tried it) but the whole point is I can't seem to boot up in ANY mode. Including safe mode. I even tried "debugging mode", but that blue screened too. If i could only find a boot up mode that works.

There MUST be some way to get into the data on the hd without windows needing to boot up. Maybe through dos or something?

Kevinaz
 
I really don't want to repair xp unless I know for sure that the problem is with XP itself, because I think I've already used the repair limit on my xp disc (if I understand properly, some of the newer xp discs have a limit of 2 repairs. Correct me if i'm wrong) and if I haven't used my limit, i'd hate to waste a repair, since I really think the problem is that icon still trying to shut down xp as soon as it boots up, and not xp itself.

However, I'm heading over to a friends house where he'll boot it up as a slave drive, and attempt to remove the icon that way. I'd do it myself on my mom's computer (which i'm typing with now) but I don't want to risk screwing up and wrecking THIS computer (which I've been known to do too). (My friend is a certified computer technician).

Kevinaz
 
I maybe off here, as I'm no guru, but I don't think it would hurt. Can you boot into the repair console and at the dos prompt, type FXMBR.
Bronson7
 
(if I understand properly, some of the newer xp discs have a limit of 2 repairs. Correct me if i'm wrong)
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you are wrong there is no limit to the number of repairs you can do
 
Kevinaz said:
What is FXBMR?
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fix master boot record BUT on second thought dont do it. I meant to say Recovery console not repair console. It fixed my problem when I had a dual boot os and removed linux. It wouldn't boot into windows. Like I said, Don't Do What I orignaly said. Go ahead and do a Repaire Install. I don't want to screw you up as your problem may be different than the one I had and MS warns that FXMBR carries some risks.
Bronson7
 
fxmbr wont help in this case as the boot record seem ok, otherwise he wouldnt even get to the xp boot option scheme

Like i said the repair install is the easiest option, and like i also said there are no limits to how many times you can repair from one cd.....that would just be silly on the part of m$
 
The problems there are more extensive where the details outlined in the article on performing the "install to repair" method simplify the entire process. This will actually replace all of the essential files Windows needs to run without deletion of the current install or anything else. Once Windows and the registry get trashed it's solves problems fast. Any glitches in the mbr or boot information are aautomatically corrected at the same time.
 
Ok, it's fixed.

When we tried to set it up as a slave, it said "disk is not formatted". (probably we didn't set the pins to slave correctly) I thought I'd lost everything. Then we were going to repair xp, but instead wen't into the recovery console, and did C:\chkdsk and it said of 19gb total disk space, 5gb was available. So I knew the data was still there. (yeah I know you're thinking that's an EXTREMLEY small hd, but i'm upgrading). After chkdsk it worked fine.

The Moral of all this: DON'T MESS WITH ICONS!:eek: :eek: :eek:

Kevinaz
 
Which connector did you have plugged into? the end or middle? For the slave always use the middle connector. Sometimes you have to run a drive at cable select for it to properly detected and shown when you have more then one drive. The older boards saw that more.
 
I saw this on Stumble videos try one of your friends is playing with you if I right you run shutdown.exe then delete that file ??? can't hurt
 
@pc eye: I'm sure I had the right connector.

@wizzle: I had no clue what you said
 
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