BMyers

Can I boot up with the XP cd and recover files. What do you think happened? Did it lost a major boot file? The drive is new. Have you ever heard of turning the pc off by accident and then not booting? I guess reloading xp over xp might not help. Bruce

Help! I accidntly shut My PC off by the power switch.Now it won't boot. It will not go to last know config,Normal startup,and when I try safemode it just stop at a point with had drive activity but nothing going on. When it tries to go inot XP it goes to CHDSK and says "Cannot open volume for direct acess. Finished.The hard drive is a new WD120/7200. I tried a fixmbr and fixboot off the OS cd in recovery and did not do anything. Below is the specs of the PC. Thanks Bruce XP Prof Thermotake 480 PS ATI 9700Pro KT4ulyra-Fisr 2800 Barton 512 2700 DDR 120 WD 7200 HD DvD Rom Audigy 2 Platinum USR 56K modem 1.44 Floppy Sony DVD Burner