Windows XP not booting

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Kail

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Hi, I hope I'm putting this in the right place.
I'm having problems getting my computer to start.
It's a 4 year old Dell Inspirion B 130 with Windows XP. It was working last night, but slowly, and I shut it off with the power button rather than through the start menu.

Today it won't boot. The Dell logo comes up and the bar loads, but then I get a black screen. I tried everything I could think of. I went to the F8 menu, tried rebooting, tried safe mood (still black screen), tried last good configuration (same), and I ran diagnostics, which passed everything but when it came to something about the patrition,press any key to continue, it just gave me a blue screen.

I have the Windows XP disc, but I don't know where to go from there.
Any idea what I should do?
 
You can try a few things. Take the battery out and hold down the power button for 2 minutes. Also can try going to setting(not sure which button for your model, F?) reset to defaults. You can also boot with a Xp disk and chose to go to the recovery console. Type fixboot, hit enter. You can also type fixmbr, hit enter. This is more complicated things you can do in console like create boot entry but not going to go there if you don't have much computer knowledge. There are programs that claim to fix boot but most are BS. Some are ?. You can
 
My guess is that you have errors on the hard drive now that only the drive makers disc diagnostic utility can fix. What brand of hard drive is it?
 
Will any of that erase what I have on my computer?

I don't know what brand the hard drive is. >>; I'm guessing it would say, but I don't know which part it's in either. (It's a laptop.) Lemme get back to you on that.
 
It could be a Fujitsu Hard drive.
GO in the recovery console.

(IN windows XP setup once it has loaded Press R)
Then enter Installation Number and the admin password.

Then go 'fixboot' and see what happens.
 
Kail said:
Will any of that erase what I have on my computer?

I don't know what brand the hard drive is. >>; I'm guessing it would say, but I don't know which part it's in either. (It's a laptop.) Lemme get back to you on that.
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No, it will not delete anything. Go into the bios and see if there is a model number listed for the hdd.
 
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