urgent help needed my computer will not load up after a download

Toxteth_OGrady

In which case boot from your XP CD, go into the Recovery Console and run Chkdsk.

Instructions here

:cool:

TOG

bwatt00

come on guys must be someone on here thats got the answers to my problems,to me its the worst pc problem i had well for one to get back working again and my last resort is to go back to pc factory settings as too much info to loose etc

bwatt00

i boot disc from dvd drive it comes through a process and i have welcome to set up with optons of setup windows now,repair using recovery console and quit.
i then get to screen recovery console with:

1:c:windows
asking which windows installation i would like to log onto,i have no idea it says to cancel press enter which i have done in passed and this not work but what do i do from here??

bwatt00

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

In which case boot from your XP CD, go into the Recovery Console and run Chkdsk.

Instructions here

:cool:

well i tried my luck and pressed 1 not sure if right number,how do you know what number,asks type admin password dont thinki got one i neve put one in when logging on to xp,well i have c:\windows>and enter chkdsk/p and get command not regognised typehelp for list.

what now??

albertross_2

type help, is chkdsk listed, did you spell it correctly?

bwatt00

when i put in chkdsk and nothing else somethng happened and said volume appears to be in good condition and was not checked use /p if i want to check volume when i do it says command not recognized so what now,this sure is a nightmare of a problem but worth it ifi get it back working again.

albertross_2

chkdsk c: /r

bwatt00

albertross wrote: »

chkdsk c: /r

comes up when i put this in the parameter is not valid.try/?for help

albertross_2

try
chkdsk c: /F

if that doesn't work..

chkdsk /?

what does it bring up?

you are using the / not the \ aren't you? and putting spaces in?

bwatt00

albertross wrote: »

try chkdsk /?

what does it bring up?

you are using the / not the \ aren't you? and putting spaces in?

Right whatever i did it has someting up now with p and r so much info would i need to type this up or where from here.