Installing Windows XP home

2007-04-17 16:23:34

#1

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

Well it all started when my game froze and i had to restart my computer. I turned it back on and get the message...

The file system32/config is corrupted or missing. Insert disk and press R to repair it.

So i go buy XP put it in boot up from disk and it says "Press a key to boot from disk"

i press every key on my keyboard and nothing happens. It just goes back to my old problem. Its like my keyboard isnt responsive when i get to that part. Any suggestions?

Help plz. I karma!

2007-04-17 16:46:28

#2

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

First thing to try before re-installing is to pull the hard drive out of your machine and plug it into another, working computer to run checkdisk on it. (be sure to use the /F switch) This may fix your problem entirely. (Unless the power supply is failing)

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2007-04-17 17:05:35

#3

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

my keyboard is a regular USB. ive tried other keyboards and ive gotten the same resualts. It seems the CD-rom is reading the disk its just that i cant press an key to continue. I have a medium skill for computers but not a high one >.< ill do the best i can.

2007-04-17 17:07:45

#4

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

try the checkdisk thing first. Do you have another PC you could hook your hard drive up to?

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2007-04-17 17:08:25

#5

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

yes i do, a crappy dell, by the way there is no possible way to get to my desktop. It goes to a black screen and displays the problem above.

Last edited by NeXuS4909 (2007-04-17 17:08:51)

2007-04-17 17:11:42

#6

russ)=spetsnaz: Banned; +131|6926|the guy in the hind on gator

when u turn on ur comp do the numb lock and caps lock buttons light up, in other words are u sure ur keyboard works?

2007-04-17 17:12:38

#7

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

Ok, remove the bad hard drive.

Unplug the CD ROM from the good computer.

Plug in the "bad" hard drive where the CD ROM was.

Boot it up

Make sure the computer can see the "bad" hard drive.

Go to Start, RUN, type in CMD and hit enter. (This will take you to a comand prompt)

Type:

chkdsk d: /F (assuming that is the assigned drive letter of the "bad" HD

and hit enter

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2007-04-17 17:16:02

#8

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|7040|United States

Just take the cd out, restart your computer, hit F2 to go into the BIOS and change the boot priority so it boots from the optical drive first, save+exit, let it boot up, pop in cd, restart and you should be good.

2007-04-17 17:16:49

#9

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

BeerzGod wrote:
Just take the cd out, restart your computer, hit F2 to go into the BIOS and change the boot priority so it boots from the optical drive first, save+exit, let it boot up, pop in cd, restart and you should be good.

Why re-install when you can fix?

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2007-04-17 17:16:50

#10

Milk.org: Bringing Sexy Back; +270|7246|UK

Might be alot more simple than this mate. Try using a non-USB keyboard (PS2) this should work.

Some older USB keyboards dont activate until windows starts (esp the wireless ones) I know this from experience mate. Hope this is the solution.

2007-04-17 17:19:38

#11

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

I think everyone's missing the point. The problem is with the OS.

In other news: "The keybord won't respond when trying to reinstall".

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2007-04-17 17:20:57

#12

russ)=spetsnaz: Banned; +131|6926|the guy in the hind on gator

but does he knows if it works at all?

2007-04-17 17:21:33

#13

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

my friend is helping me. atm when i get all organized ill tell u how it goes and pass out the karma by who helps me the most.

2007-04-17 17:26:30

#14

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

ok my friend told me to do what beerzgod said to do. Switch the boot priority and i looks like i got progress.
It start up and say press any key to load the disk but i cant press any disk. So it times out and says a disk read error occured. Ive used different keyboards but i dont have a PS/2 keyboard.

2007-04-17 17:28:20

#15

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

Sounds like your hard drive is dying. Checkdisk Checkdisk Checkdisk. Listen to teh downy!1

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2007-04-17 17:29:30

#16

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

Theres one barrier seperating me from your idea |PARENTS| If i take out their hard drive ill have them breathing down my neck saying " you effd up your computer dont eff up ours!"

2007-04-17 17:30:50

#17

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

NeXuS4909 wrote:
Theres one barrier seperating me from your idea |PARENTS| If i take out their hard drive ill have them breathing down my neck saying " you effd up your computer dont eff up ours!"

Just remove the cables from their CD ROM, don't touch their HD! You just want to slave it to another machine

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2007-04-17 17:31:11

#18

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

I give up

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2007-04-17 17:34:32

#19

Ninja_Monkey: I TK For Blackhawks; +60|7035|UK

i think you should just lisen to downy he isnt saying it cause its funny it will work

FGS just do it

2007-04-17 17:35:26

#20

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6812|Atlanta, Georgia

ok so plug bad Hd to parents computer and go to command promp then type chkdsk d: /F ??? and what will it do after that?

2007-04-17 17:40:19

#21

ReDevilJR: Member; +106|6821

love the term slave drive

2007-04-17 17:46:31

#22

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7067|Seattle

NeXuS4909 wrote:
ok so plug bad Hd to parents computer and go to command promp then type chkdsk d: /F ??? and what will it do after that?

It will fix it.

edit: hopefully

and to make it more clear, it sounds to me like your HD has read/write errors on it. Chkdsk /F means "run check disk and fix any problems found"

Last edited by King_County_Downy (2007-04-17 17:46:45)

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2007-04-18 07:52:45

#23

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|7040|United States

King_County_Downy wrote:
BeerzGod wrote:
Just take the cd out, restart your computer, hit F2 to go into the BIOS and change the boot priority so it boots from the optical drive first, save+exit, let it boot up, pop in cd, restart and you should be good.
Why re-install when you can fix?

Because his original question was asking how to boot from the cd if his keyboard wasn't working in Windows.

2007-04-18 08:05:40

#24

lxcpikiman: imbad @ bf2; +70|7065|Toronto-Canada

omg u guys cant solve it!!!!!
neithe could i but me and a friend had the same problem it's same exact thing i got
here what i did:
i friend to me it was the psu but it wasn't then i told that the cd rom maybe not reading the cd so i installed a new cd rom and it booted up.
maybe switch to another cd or dvd rom and see what happens
sorry for my english but i'm a hurry.

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