Win XP not booting

LandyMan

LandyMan

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I am having a slight problem with one of my XP VM installations. It crashed this morning with a BSOD, afterwards bitching about reading from the drive when it just started up. I got the sectors and what not sorted by booting into a backup of the now useless VM, and running disk diagnostics etc through the Backup VM.

Now I don't get the reading error anymore, but after stating it is booting from the HDD, the HDD light goes out, and nothing happens ... just a black screen.

Now, what would I need to copy over from the Backup VM to make the broken one bootable again?
 
Have you tried booting from an xp iso and using the repair console to fix the boot record? I don't have a clue if it would work on a VM disk, but worth a try?
fixboot & fixmbr, maybe chkdsk as well...
 
I ran chkdsk ... fixed and relinked a bunch of items.
Will give fixboot & fixmbr a try
 
Have you attempted to revert back to the previous snapshot of the VM installation as I've found running diagnostics on VM hdd is a waste of time to be honest.
 
A couple of things seem to go my way, to the point where the VM is actually booting up. However, the screen just goes blank after the initial Windows XP logo. Safe Mode and all the variations on that is also unsuccessful. Restoring registry values also did not help. I am now reverting back to the backup VM and installing the necessary software.
 
is it possible to boot from a xp iso,I never knew that would work,will i have to create a virtual drive and load it from there,put the iso on daemon and boot bios on cd drive.I think i tried that before and nothing happened
 
speed reading is a bitch sorry mistook that vm for something else ..dow.
of course it wont work damnit as only hard ware can be detected via bios not virtual shyt.
thanks for correcting me there buddy but next time please warn me before i make an a$$ of myself.(grinnin)
 
lol ;) It's cool, I know you know your stuff :p
 
cool man,now you need to help me by telling me on personal experience,if your pc is very fast what amount do you put you paging files to 512 or do you like to put a huge amount like me which is 1152 and max will be 2304.
pls tell me if i am doing something wrong
 
dablakmark8 said:
or do you leave it default?
Click to expand...

Well, I read this a while ago, you take the amount of ram you have, open calculator and multiply it by 3.8

You take that value and use it as your page file. If the page file is bigger, it doesn't hurt, if it's smaller, it hurts ;)
 
that is the coolest advise i have received in a long time.well i will do it right now thanks tera.how would we live without this forum...mmm nothing just play thumbs i guess,thanks again
 
Yip, that should be your value, min and max, I don't think you would need more than that ;)

BTW. wrt to your other thread.

I'm to lazy to go there. Open My Computer>right click on C: choose properties, click tools and check the disk, click both options for error checking. Click ok, if it asks to restart choose accordingly.

CHKDSK takes bloody long on some pc's and is quite fast on others, so be patient, it will complete. Do it when you go to bed or something ;)

I hope that will fix the long boot.
 
wel now that you said this my pc tried to check that 2 days ago out of the blue,and i canceled it every time,maybe that was the problem all along.
killing 2 birds with one stone tera,hey you on a roll tonight myyyyyyyyyyyyy buddy.
 
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