PC/WinXP problem

[zotz]

I've been trying to help a friend with his PC. It hung while he was upgrading a firewall and now won't boot. The hardware all checks out normal, it'll boot to the utility partition and I've run a windows repair on it, none of which has made any difference. It's a Dell Dimension 9150 running XP Home,

Any ideas? Thanks.

Comments

[grahamb.livejournal.com]

If it's just the mbr, you can boot into the recovery console using the XP install CD. When you boot of the cd, press 'r' on the first screen where it starts asking you questions.

When you get the command prompt, just run a fixmbr and a fixboot and if it's just the boot record that should fix it. There are some caveats to that, but generally you should be ok.

[zotz]

That's roughly the plan. Trouble is there's so little to go on. Just a blank screen. Still, hopefully one of those will work.

Cheers.