Well, you've got to be able to get it to read that XP CD (F12, boot from IDE CDROM/ATAPI) before you can move forward, imo.
Once you can boot to the CD, then you'll probably want to run an XP repair either from the recovery console to execute a CHKDSK /F ( or even a fixmbr ) command (in an effort to check and this fix any/all errors found on the drive) or perhaps ultimately a full XP repair install if possible.
Unless you can remove the hard drive and connect it to another system where it can be viewed through Windows (and then the CHKDSK could be run via My Computer/(drive letter)/ "Tools" tab/Error checking....
NVRambo
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April 27th, 2008 07:00
Well, you've got to be able to get it to read that XP CD (F12, boot from IDE CDROM/ATAPI) before you can move forward, imo.
Once you can boot to the CD, then you'll probably want to run an XP repair either from the recovery console to execute a CHKDSK /F ( or even a fixmbr ) command (in an effort to check and this fix any/all errors found on the drive) or perhaps ultimately a full XP repair install if possible.
Unless you can remove the hard drive and connect it to another system where it can be viewed through Windows (and then the CHKDSK could be run via My Computer/(drive letter)/ "Tools" tab/Error checking....