Do you know what error message you are getting? It could be that you only need to boot up into safe mode once and do a normal shutdown. You may have to run a CHKDSK from the Safe Mode command Prompt. If you received a boot disk with the computer, it may have some Windows Repair utilities that can repair any dammaged Windows files. Unfortunately, all of these things cannot be done with speech.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:56:32 +0100, David wrote: >All tech guys on this list! >Need help with a strange problem. >The thing happened, that never should happen: In the middle of a disk >defragmentation the power went off, on my desktop computer. Now, when switching it on, it does not start loading the Windows XP Pro operating system. >First, I thought I might have lost everything. Good thing, I gave it a chance. >I took out the SATA disk, and connected it to my laptop, via a cable. It came up right away, and I was able to copy ALL my data - from the SATA (desktop) disk, to a backup place on my laptop. I can read, play and modify the contents of the SATA disk, with no problem. So, at least, it seems to me, the disk itself has no hardware flaws. >Kind of get a feeling, there might have occured some kind of damage to the >file system, that does not affect the contents itself, but might make the desktop computer not seeing the disk as a 'SYSTEM' disk. >Whilst connected to my laptop, I ran DISKMGMT.MSC, so as to see what the >status of the partition is. Here the SATA disk shows up as > Drive E: - Partition Basic - Healthy - (Active) - 58.5 gb >My C: drive of the laptop, says System, instead of Active. This should be OK, >far as I can see. >Now, all you tech guys, please: Is there a way for me, to make the SATA disk >from my desktop a Systemdisk? In the old DOS days, I remember there was a command called SYS, that would accomplish this task. Seems this is no longer the case, in Windows XP. But is there any other workaround? Or, anyone has an idea, as to how I might get the desktop again to recognize the disk as the primary system disk, and load my operating system? >All your feedback and suggestions will be received with great appreciation. >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
