Startup help

[jdc12]

Lately i've been having some trouble starting up my computer, what happens when I turn it on is, it will show the first 2 screens that it always shows when starting up, then right before the windows xp loading screen the screen will go blank and do nothing. I was wondering if anyone knew what might be wrong or how I could go about fixing? Thanks.

 

[WhyYouLoveMe]

Have you tried starting Windows in safe mode?

(after the BIOS screen, tap F8 a few times until you see the boot selection menu)

 

[jdc12]

Have you tried starting Windows in safe mode?

(after the BIOS screen, tap F8 a few times until you see the boot selection menu)

When I try I get "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntoskrn1.exe" at the top of my screen and nothing else.

 

[JasonE4]

Sounds like a corrupt hard drive.

 

[jdc12]

Sounds like a corrupt hard drive.

Do I have to replace it completely? Also... is there anyway to check?

 

[jnick]

Try booting off of the windows cd into the revocery console and use these commands:

fixboot

Exit recovery console; see if it'll boot up. If not . . .

chkdsk /r or chkdsk c: /r

Not sure if it'll work but it's worth a shot before you format/buy another drive.

 

[MD_Willington]

Could you please list all of your system components.

Thanks

MD

 

[alphanumeric]

Are you using style XP or any other program to get a custom boot screen?
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntoskrn 1.exe
It looks like the boot.ini file is trying to load a modified ntoskrn file. ntoskrn.exe is the correct file not ntoskrn 1.exe.