I have a PC I use only to run CNC hardware on an old fujitsu pc. It has a dual Linux and Windows XP boot. I just choose at startup which I want to use. Recently the hard drive has not wanted to start XP. The Linux OS opens fine.
I would select XP as the start up option, it would then go to the startup prompt screen (safe mode, start up normally etc). When I pressed start up normally it would cycle back round to the OS options and so on.
I removed the drive and installed it in a caddy. I can see all of the file structures for both OS so I presume the hard drive is not the issue. I ran 'check the drive for errors'. The error check spotted a couple of issues and told me it had resolved these so I removed the drive put it back into the fujitsu pc it had come from and XP started and worked fine. However when I restarted to check it again it would not get further that the start up prompt screen.I should also add that I tried the drive out in a different Acer pc which may have confused a startup proceedure.
My question is how do I get XP to start reliably again. That PC has largely worked really well considering the amount of work its done running various CNC machines over the last few years. What I would like would be to run something which would resolve the issue without me having to install a new copy of XP and all the software ect.
Today I backed up my documents and made a system restore disk but as a long term mac user i'm not familiar with the restore or repair proceedures of windows.
Any advice or links i'm all ears, thanks.
I would select XP as the start up option, it would then go to the startup prompt screen (safe mode, start up normally etc). When I pressed start up normally it would cycle back round to the OS options and so on.
I removed the drive and installed it in a caddy. I can see all of the file structures for both OS so I presume the hard drive is not the issue. I ran 'check the drive for errors'. The error check spotted a couple of issues and told me it had resolved these so I removed the drive put it back into the fujitsu pc it had come from and XP started and worked fine. However when I restarted to check it again it would not get further that the start up prompt screen.I should also add that I tried the drive out in a different Acer pc which may have confused a startup proceedure.
My question is how do I get XP to start reliably again. That PC has largely worked really well considering the amount of work its done running various CNC machines over the last few years. What I would like would be to run something which would resolve the issue without me having to install a new copy of XP and all the software ect.
Today I backed up my documents and made a system restore disk but as a long term mac user i'm not familiar with the restore or repair proceedures of windows.
Any advice or links i'm all ears, thanks.
