Alright, I am completely willing to just reformat my XP Pro machine (or rather my mother's machine). I just can't even get it to do that! Background:
Mom gave me her computer months and months ago wanting me to fix it. Unfortunately now I can't remember the specifics of what the problem was. I worked on it for a few days and gave up. lol. In any event, I thought it may be a motherboard issue, so I bought another (used) CPU thinking I would swap the drive from my mothers into this 'new' machine. No such luck.
Essentially, as soon as you try and boot up the drive, it goes to the screen that says windows did not shut down properly, would you like to boot in safe mode, safe mode with networking, etc.
If i try any of the safe modes, it always gets hung up at the mup.sys file. If I try last known good configuration or starting windows normally it just freezes.
I have tried changing the boot order in the bios to boot from the CD, but it just brings me back to this screen.
Essentially, I can't get it to boot in safe mode, can't get it to boot from disk, can't get to the recovery console, can't get to a dos prompt. Is there any hope?
Thanks in advance
Mom gave me her computer months and months ago wanting me to fix it. Unfortunately now I can't remember the specifics of what the problem was. I worked on it for a few days and gave up. lol. In any event, I thought it may be a motherboard issue, so I bought another (used) CPU thinking I would swap the drive from my mothers into this 'new' machine. No such luck.
Essentially, as soon as you try and boot up the drive, it goes to the screen that says windows did not shut down properly, would you like to boot in safe mode, safe mode with networking, etc.
If i try any of the safe modes, it always gets hung up at the mup.sys file. If I try last known good configuration or starting windows normally it just freezes.
I have tried changing the boot order in the bios to boot from the CD, but it just brings me back to this screen.
Essentially, I can't get it to boot in safe mode, can't get it to boot from disk, can't get to the recovery console, can't get to a dos prompt. Is there any hope?
Thanks in advance