Blue Screen of Death!

electron_3

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

This I think is what yer after.

shopbot

electron wrote:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

This I think is what yer after.

Trying this now. Being prompted for admin password. It's not taking any of the passwords I would have used. Is there a bypass or superuser or default password?

shopbot

shopbot wrote:

Trying this now. Being prompted for admin password. It's not taking any of the passwords I would have used. Is there a bypass or superuser or default password?

Ignore the above!! pressing enter with no password worked! Mmmmmm Secure

shopbot

electron wrote:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

This I think is what yer after.

On this how to you change the command prompt to read C:\windows to d:\ ?

albertross_2

d:
cd \

c:
cd \windows

shopbot

Thanks AR.
I am not having any luck getting recovery console working.

Would it be simpler just to re-install XP? I have all my photos backed up and the very important documents are backed up. All my e-mails are on a webmail server.....

albertross_2

If it is a Dell, it may have a recovery partition, which will put it back to the state it was at delivery (F12? at boot).

It depends on how confident you are that you have everything that you need safely backed up. You are going to lose any config changes that you have made, and have to start from scratch.

For future reference, a product like Norton Ghost 10/2003 would help you in this situation, for £30 and a blank DVD/CD or two, it would enable you to put everthing back the way it was in minutes.. Driveimage XML which is free, is also another option, or microsoft backup

http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm


What happens in recovery console, could you do the chkdsk?

Toxteth_OGrady

Why not try a System Restore? All M$ updates create a restore point during the instal.

Edit: Whoops, just realised from OP that you probably can't get that far. Have you tried F8 after POST to see if you can get into Safe Mode/System Restore that way?

:cool:

TOG

shopbot

It is a Dell and has a diagnostics partition. I have run the full check and it passes. I phoned Dell and they said their Bangalore Call Centre had been closed by rioting and to call back on Tuesday.

I cannot access recovery console. However I do have all of the original disks inc XP.

shopbot

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

Why not try a System Restore? All M$ updates create a restore point during the instal.

:cool:

TOG

How do I do this? All I get is blue screen on start up. Safe mode does not work and pressing F8 on start up and trying to go back to a previous state does not work.