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TankHunter

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There are several files the windows needs to see before it will boot. Its not finding them. Check these things in order:

1. Check for a floppy in the floppy drive. It might be trying to boot off of it.

2. Go into the bios and make sure that your hard drive is in the correct spot in the system boot order. It should be something like (CD Drive->Floppy->Primary Hard Drive)

3. Grab your XP install disk, go to another computer and download/install/create the "Windows Ultimate Boot Disk". Burn that disk to a CD.

4. Bring that CD back to the broken computer, and plug in a cheap USB drive or hard drive to back your stuff up to.

5. Boot from that CD you just made. It will take forever to load - its loading a mini version of windows XP off the CD.

6. If your hard drive is functioning at all, it will show up in the interface.

7. At that point, you might want to back up anything important to the usb device.

8. Run one of the virus scanners included on the files you backed up.

9. There are several utilities on the CD that will look at your windows install. Im unfamiliar with them all except one that will let you restore your registry to older xp restore points in the past.

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Again, thanks guys. I have solved the issue with the computer failing to boot and apparently all other issues (user error and other). It seems there was some files that were in a state of error in the previous build so I ended up rebuilding it. Again thanks for the assistance. Thank God it wasnt an issue with the HDD or mother board!

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