XP won't boot
Hiya ppruners!
My girlfriend's lappy decided not to boot up anymore. All you get is the XP screen and that's it. The hdd stops loading. I tried all different combinations that the F8 menu lets me do - all to no avail.
I actually suspect a bad hdd. The bios menu doesn't let me do a scandisk-like task, not sure if it ever did. Now, most of you will say to pop in the XP CD and proceed from there. Well, my friends, we're talking about an Acer Aspire One which has no CD drive.
Since I got my laptop running and have a spare USB stick or dongle as you say, I wonder if it is possible to create a bootable USB stick with a diagnosis tool on it. I did a quick Google search but was overwhelmed with complex instructions. So my question to the tech ppruners: What (or how) would you do to solve this?
(I feel a trip to the store coming up ... ugh!)
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PS: More info...
In safe mode, XP stops booting when it reaches:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32\Drivers \Mup.sys
Last edited by Squawk7777; 13th February 2010 at 04:06.