Crash and then fail to boot

PhatPhish · 21 Aug 2007 at 14:18

Was browsing on my PC, went downstairs to fetch something and back up to a frozen PC, tried ctrl alt del but didn't work so just hit the reset button on my tower.

Now thething won't boot,it gets to the Win XP logo before just restarting itself. When trying to boot in safe mode it does the same and then produces a list full of .sys files in the format;

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk()partition(1)\Windows\system31\drivers\xxxxx.sys

No idea whats knackered, although I'm guessing its the harddrive.

So, any solution apart from reformating?

PhatPhish · 21 Aug 2007 at 16:30

"The partition is either too full, damaged, not formatted or formatted with an incompatible file system. To continue installing Windows, setup must format this partition."

PhatPhish · 21 Aug 2007 at 22:47

If the option to repair isn't there, the disk is fubared?

PhatPhish · 21 Aug 2007 at 23:47

Had a look through and ran the build and everything, unless I'm overlooking something dead obvious, I can't find a wayto copy the files with this PC which has a CD Rom drive/CD RW combo, instead of two seperate disk drives?

PhatPhish · 22 Aug 2007 at 13:41

Is it possible to "trick" the computer into thinking it has an extra CD drive and the win CD is in there? If so, how?