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Can any computer guru's help me?
I have an older pc that I'm trying to get going again. About 4 years ago I found some "cheap" software that claimed that it could clean up unwanted stuff from my hard drive probably the way a registry cleaner might work. Well, being a somewhat novice on PC systems, I ended up deleting things I shouldn't have and corrupting files, etc. I was running windows XP on it at the time. Some of my boot files were missing or corrupted. So I made a boot disk with the files: boot.ini , NTLDR, and NTDETECT.COM to try to get it to boot. It's a no go. I tried an XP setup disk to try to get into the recovery console...Can't get in there either. I keep getting a message that says my acpi.sys file is corrupted. It won't boot with a disk and it won't boot into safe mode. It's an OLD pentium ll with 66mhz fsb, gigabit mobo and Maxtor 20 Gb HDD. Also 128mb sdram. It worked pretty good before I trashed it with that cheap software. I want to get it going just to play with. Any takers on this one?
I already built a new computer. Asus P4C800E-Deluxe mobo, Intel pentium 4, 3.0Ghz socket 478, 800Mhz fsb, Western Digital WD360GD Raptor HDD, 1Gb DDR SDRAM, and I can't remember what kind of video card I have.
Yeah, by recovery console, I meant the repair console.
I mainly wanted to recover the stuff that was on the hard drive and I don't believe it's compatible with my new system. Don't have much $$ to use right now...any cheap solutions?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Simplest solution would be to just reinstall xp. But try this
- 1 decade ago
There are cliff notes at the bottom of this for a qucker answer
How in the world did you even run Windows XP??? Windows XP alone takes up a minimum of a quarter of your harddrive. I recommend taking out your harddrive and bringing it to someone who can transfer your files to something external. Something else you can do is get just buy a new computer and bring both to a tech support company that can backup important files, or if you feel adventurous you can pop it open and plug in your old harddrive in the place of a DVD player in your computer (they both use the same power adapter cable and IDE connection cable).
I think that computer should just be trashed, its not even worth donating because the only thing you will be able to do is Windows 98.
Cliff Notes: Save your files to an external source, trash this comp and get a new one
- 1 decade ago
Wow.. Hmm.. By recovery console, did you mean the "repair" function that comes with the Windows XP disk? If not, try that. If that doesn't work, try to get into the comand prompt (by doing something about not reading from hard drive for an OS in the BIOS) and just format and reinstall...
Good luck!
