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05-10-2009
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| | Virtual XP won't boot after update. Hi Guys & Girls I have XP as a virtual machine, which recently completed an update. The thing is it restarted after the update and now it won't boot into windows. The XP logo with the blue animated bar comes up, sits there for a bit then it restarts. It then keeps doing and never starts. Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing any data on the drive. Its important that I don't lose the data. Thanks Zane |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. "Zane" <Zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:720E8AD5-1245-4C24-AE37-C0480FAF0EE6@xxxxxx Quote: > Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing any > data on the drive. Quote: > Its important that I don't lose the data. -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. Hi Mark, I've used winimage and got some data back. I've tried restarting in safe mode, etc etc and it still doesn't boot.... any ideas? Thanx zane "Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > "Zane" <Zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:720E8AD5-1245-4C24-AE37-C0480FAF0EE6@xxxxxx > Quote: > > Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing any > > data on the drive. > Boot it in safe mode. > > Quote: > > Its important that I don't lose the data. > http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net > > |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. "zane" <zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:12781D59-B893-4E13-B9F6-10FAF44103BE@xxxxxx Quote: Quote: Quote: >>> Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing >>> any >>> data on the drive. >> Boot it in safe mode. Quote: > > I've tried restarting in safe mode, etc etc and it still doesn't boot.... > any ideas? -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. It gets to the windows logo with the blue animated bar it then goes blank and restarts its self. This then just keeps going round in a loop. Every thing was fine yesterday, xp vm started it then informed an update had installed and that it needed to restart. I did that(Restarted) and then that was it..... no go, right before I was due to start scoring a cricket match.... hence my frustration. Cheers Zane "Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > "zane" <zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:12781D59-B893-4E13-B9F6-10FAF44103BE@xxxxxx > Quote: Quote: > >>> Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing > >>> any > >>> data on the drive. > >> > >> Boot it in safe mode. Quote: > > > > I've tried restarting in safe mode, etc etc and it still doesn't boot.... > > any ideas? > How far does it get...? > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net > > |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. >It gets to the windows logo with the blue animated bar it then goes blank and Quote: >restarts its self. This then just keeps going round in a loop. >Every thing was fine yesterday, xp vm started it then informed an update had >installed and that it needed to restart. >I did that(Restarted) and then that was it..... no go, right before I was >due to start scoring a cricket match.... hence my frustration. first screen to get to the recovery console, then running a chkdsk. I've seen some slight corruption cause this kind of behavior with XP. And if that doesn't work, boot from that same XP media, enter past the first install screen, then it will find the old install and ask if you want to repair it, take that option. Also best would be to restore the whole .vhd file if you have a backup, then you don't have to worry about fixing the current one. -- Bob Comer On Sun, 10 May 2009 04:21:01 -0700, zane <zane@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >It gets to the windows logo with the blue animated bar it then goes blank and >restarts its self. This then just keeps going round in a loop. >Every thing was fine yesterday, xp vm started it then informed an update had >installed and that it needed to restart. >I did that(Restarted) and then that was it..... no go, right before I was >due to start scoring a cricket match.... hence my frustration. > >Cheers >Zane > >"Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: > Quote: >> "zane" <zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:12781D59-B893-4E13-B9F6-10FAF44103BE@xxxxxx >> Quote: >> >>> Has any one got any ideas how I can get it to restart with out losing >> >>> any >> >>> data on the drive. >> >> >> >> Boot it in safe mode. Quote: >> > >> > I've tried restarting in safe mode, etc etc and it still doesn't boot.... >> > any ideas? >> How far does it get...? >> >> >> -- >> Mark Rae >> ASP.NET MVP >> http://www.markrae.net >> >> |
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05-10-2009
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| | Re: Virtual XP won't boot after update. "zane" <zane@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F4A5274F-370E-4D9A-A89F-579CAB8C6F60@xxxxxx Quote: Quote: >> How far does it get...? > It gets to the windows logo with the blue animated bar it then goes blank > and > restarts its self. This then just keeps going round in a loop. > Every thing was fine yesterday, xp vm started it then informed an update > had > installed and that it needed to restart. -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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