Windows XP won't start after running Anti Spyware tools

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I HATE troubleshooting and repairing laptops unless it's an easy fix like broken monitor or mem replacement. They're a royal pain in the butt. I used to charge extra for fixing them. Be prepared for this. [/edit]

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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

I cannot remember where I got mine from, but you can get an adapter for a laptop HDD that will let you run it in a desktop. I don't know how much they cost these days, but if you can slave the drive, that could work out seriously cheaper than taking your machine to the shop.

However, it seems like you have more problems than just that. If your BIOS is scrambled or the CD has died. In any case, if you can do your own data recovery that has got to save you thirty quid?

As a general rule, I always try to do data recovery in slave mode, as you are quite correct, doing it in situ writes to the drive at the same time (you don't have the CD option) :eek:

so we have an option.....

HHD slave adapter or thirty quid for data recovery(for which they use the same adapter which i purchase)

Hi there bagggi gives this link a try [1] ....

[1] How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting

Hope that helps ...

the system is not starting in msdos or the safe mode. cant get into automatic system recovery.

Hmmm,

Will it boot from a 3.5" floppy?......................I would try a Win 98SE boot disk with Winfile.exe on it

Just see if you can get into the HDD...................it sounds to me as if that is knackered?

Also, check prices of adapters?



:)

it doesnt have a floppy drive. still looking for the adapters. checked out two places, they didnt have. gateways HHD has to be screwed out, not like the others where it just slides out. therefore not fitting most of the adapters.

bagggi

You said it won't boot from the windows cd, but if it will boot a cd, you could use a live distro like knoppix to at least email most of your files to an account or work some other magic.

Good idea Relyt I can certainly sling loads of Gmail 2 gigabyte accounts at him............

We just need to get into the damn thing?

:)

one more thing came up.

am going to try to install windows on an external harddisk and connect it using the usb. then try to start. let me try and see if it works. hopefully.

once, is all that i need.

nope. not working.