Greetings,
I'm having issues with my PC at work. It locked up on me during a shutdown, and after about 10 minutes I manually shut it down( It was sitting on a blue screen with a mouse pointer displayed, with no indication of anything happening, ie. drive lights off, no sounds etc...).
Since then it will not boot into windows ( XP Pro ), not even in safe mode. The message indicating that windows was not shut down correctly does come up, along with the options to go safemode etc..., but all of those option start, running and then reboot.
We have some utils. that gave us conflicting results. One said that the drive was unformated, another recognized the NTFS partition but could not find and MFT.
So I was wondering if any one knew of any GOOD utils to diagnose this, preferably inexpensive.
Thanks
I'm having issues with my PC at work. It locked up on me during a shutdown, and after about 10 minutes I manually shut it down( It was sitting on a blue screen with a mouse pointer displayed, with no indication of anything happening, ie. drive lights off, no sounds etc...).
Since then it will not boot into windows ( XP Pro ), not even in safe mode. The message indicating that windows was not shut down correctly does come up, along with the options to go safemode etc..., but all of those option start, running and then reboot.
We have some utils. that gave us conflicting results. One said that the drive was unformated, another recognized the NTFS partition but could not find and MFT.
So I was wondering if any one knew of any GOOD utils to diagnose this, preferably inexpensive.
Thanks