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by kahless1972

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I woke up this morning and my system will not boot. last night i scheduled a boot time defrag using diskkeeper to run this morning.Now after xp runs a chk disk it restarts xp then locks up.i tried manually restarting and the same thing occurs.Xp hasbeen activated, and has ran fine for a long time.The only thing i did differantly was set up the boot time defrag. I would like to get it up and running without a reinstall of windows any i deas will be appreciated

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by ericd173

Hit the F8 key on boot and boot to safe mode. Then disable boot time defrag and try again.

by drb63

Boot to the CD, like you would for a clean installation. Follow the instructions and when you get to the option to install, choose the repair option.

by justanadmin

I had a similar problem.

I ended up having to boot from the XP CD, choose the repair option and then run chkdsk from the command prompt. After that, rebooted and everything has been fine since.

by ericd173

OK, did you try booting to safe mode command prompt. If you can do that, then you can run chkdsk to rid the drive of the problem that is hanging the normal boot.

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