Windows MCE System Recovery Problems

colingmurphy

Hi there

Did a stupid thing over the weekend - turned off my sony viao n11s/w with XP Media Center Edition 2005 when it was half way through booting up.

When I turned it back on i was brought to the safe mode - safe mode with command prompt etc etc screen and no matter what option i chose, it brought me back to the same screen.

I had a windows xp professional disc handy, which i used to boot the pc from and i tried a fixmbr and a fixboot from the repair console. that made no difference. just went back to the safe mode etc options again and was stuck in the same loop.

Then I found the windows xp mce disc, and I used that instead to boot up the pc, but instead of giving me the option of going to the repair console, it brought me to a blue screen listing my partitions and giving me the options of

a) set up windows xp on the selected item, press enter
b) to create a partition in the unpartitioned space, press c
c) to delete the selected partition, press d

Neither of these options seemed very helpful.

Has anyone got any suggestions for me? This is my work laptop and I´m really struggling without it.

Regards.

Tony H

have a look at this link ,it gives a good tutorial on repairing an install of xp pro
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxprepair1.htm

colingmurphy

thanks for that fitzdragon

solved it a short time ago thankfully!

found a forum on the windows website which recommended I try a

chkdsk c: /p /r in the recovery console using an xp professional disc (as opposed to a media center one), which worked a treat.