I have an xp home machine that has problems so I have imaged the drive, the problems it is experiencing are:
safe mode boot shows last driver in the list of things loading as "sr.sys" and never loads anything past it. so basicall it does not work.
no other boot options will function, if I try to boot normally all I see is a blank screen- no color, and the disk activity stops. I have let it sit for hours hoping that something would happen.... nothing ever does.
I have performed a repair install and after the first reboot it never comes back to the final steps to finish the install.
I have performed a second os install to a different windows folder- and it works just fine.
I have performed a fixboot, and a fixmbr- multiple times and still nothing makes the original os load.
I have ran chkdsk /r on the drive, and I have used spinrite to check the drive over- no errors with spinrite, but errors with chkdsk, it claims it repaired.
any suggestions?
safe mode boot shows last driver in the list of things loading as "sr.sys" and never loads anything past it. so basicall it does not work.
no other boot options will function, if I try to boot normally all I see is a blank screen- no color, and the disk activity stops. I have let it sit for hours hoping that something would happen.... nothing ever does.
I have performed a repair install and after the first reboot it never comes back to the final steps to finish the install.
I have performed a second os install to a different windows folder- and it works just fine.
I have performed a fixboot, and a fixmbr- multiple times and still nothing makes the original os load.
I have ran chkdsk /r on the drive, and I have used spinrite to check the drive over- no errors with spinrite, but errors with chkdsk, it claims it repaired.
any suggestions?