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16th Mar 2008, 16:42
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I cannot restart my system, it will go right away to a screen for me to choose how to start, Normal, Safe Mode, ect. No matter which one i choose It starts back to beginning again. I know i will probably have to reload windows, but is there a way to recover my data first?
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16th Mar 2008, 17:06
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If you have a Windows CD boot from it and select the second repair option.
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17th Mar 2008, 05:15
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Alternatively if you're competent with removing hard drives you could attach your current hard drive into a second system, run it as the slave, and transfer data that way.
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17th Mar 2008, 23:53
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There is a 3rd way to go about this but this only works provided that your problem is not hardware related and you have enough space left on your harddrive.
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Just install the OS on your system a second time. Suppose you got Windows XP installed on your C:\ drive, you can put XP on there a second time without deleting your original installation. All you need to do is make sure you take care of the following steps: - When asked which file system you want to use to format your harddrive, choose the option "leave file system intact". - XP installs itself by default in the folder "Windows". So when you are asked which folder you want to use for your second XP OS in, don't overwrite "Windows" but create the folder "Windows2" and point your new install to that one. These steps will install windows again without touching your original OS. Reboot your system and you will be asked which OS you want to load: WinXP or WinXP (lol). The second one in the list will be your new install. Boot into that one and you'll be able to access all the folders in your original XP install or anywhere else in your harddrive. Recover your data than reinstall XP again on a clean formatted C:\ drive. If you want to go about it this way, you'll only be installing XP without any additianal software so you're looking at about 3 to 4 GB of available harddrive space to do this. If you haven't got this amount left on your C:\ drive but you got a D:\ drive/partition with that amount left, then you can use that one. In order not to loose data that might stored on D:\, follow the same principles: i.e., don't format and install XP in the folder "Windows2". Good luck. My System: Willy Wonka's Polygon Factory
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18th Mar 2008, 03:39
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i had this same problem a week ago.. this is wot i did to fix it
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