Using the Windows XP repair installation process

[gazaly]

Is your XP system is refusing to boot, giving you constant blue screens or other unpleasantness? before you decide to head off to your local computer shop or reinstall Windows yourself, give this tip a try. It may not work, but then again, it might fix everything, You will need a valid Windows XP CD for this tip:

Boot the system from your XP CD. Choose the 'press enter to set up Windows XP now' option.

Press F8 to skip through the EULA (though if you haven't read it before, you should now. Now press R to begin a repair installation.

Your system will go through the entire XP install process, but will not attempt to replace any of your existing data. It will simply reinstall the vital system files, fixing any that are corrupted or missing. If this is the problem that is causing your system not to boot, chances are things will be back to normal.

 

[charmer]

Good post, Thank you. also u can run the recovery console command on the dos prompt by typing \windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

 

[Pata]

Just did that few days earlier.. I was getting loads of memory dumps.. and system was getting so slow.. Now everything is back to normal.. Only drawback of Repairing is that u have to re-install all the OS updates again..