Windows XP startup problem

[Taem]

I made myself a guide for all the trouble I often deal with, with PC's. To further expand on the Restore steps, here is what I do: (I have edited my document to make it more readible on these boards)

XP-SYSTEM-RESTORE-DOCUMENT

XP Recovery Steps
1. Boot from Windows XP CD
2. Press “r”
3. Select the hard drive with Windows; at Command Prompt:
4. Map (write these down)
5. Chkdsk c: /p /f
6. Bootcfg /scan
7. Reboot and see if everything works now. If not:

XP System Restore Tool
1. Restart
2. F8 – Select the Hard drive with Windows
3. Safe mode with Command Prompt
4. Log on as Admin
5. Load Command Prompt and type: %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstui.exe
6. Reboot and see if everything works now. If not:

XP Restore
1. Attrib –H –R –S C:\Boot.ini
2. Del C:\Boot.ini
3. BootCFG /Rebuild
4. Fixboot
5. Reboot and see if everything works now. If not:

XP System Error Fix
1. Boot from Windows XP CD
2. Press “r”
3. Select the hard drive with Windows; at Command Prompt:
4. cd System32\config
5. copy system c:\
6. copy software c:\
7. cd repair
8. copy repair\system
9. copy repair\software
10. cd “c:\”
11. REN system.bak
12. REN software.bak



Secrets:
When booting from Windows CD, when prompted to press a function key before recovery steps, press and hold F2 to access the Restore Mode. You must have a Backup to restore from made by Windows ASR Wizard.

Create a Bootable Windows Disk: In a command prompt, format drive “a:” and copy ntldr and ntdetect.com from the I386 folder on the Windows XP CD. Copy your current boot.ini file to this disk.

DIR
Dir *.exe (will list all .exe files)
Dir *.cab (will list all .cab files)
EXPAND
Expand “d:i386\driver.cab” /d /f:*
Expand –F:ntoskrnl.exe “destination”