Use the XP Recovery Console to verify the file system on your HDD and correct any problems and then try to boot your system - this may be all you need to do. Or, you are welcome to just start trying things that might work.
This is not the same as any recovery disks that might have come a store bought system. Let chkdsk finish and correct any problems it might find. It may take a long time to complete or appear to be 'stuck'. Be patient. If the HDD light is still flashing, it is doing something.
Keep an eye on the percentage amount to be sure it is still making progress. It may even appear to go backwards sometimes. Remove the CD and type 'exit' to leave the RC and restart the computer and report back with your progress.
How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x. If you have more than one drive, they are named D:, E:, and so on. By default, Windows XP groups the drives by type, as shown in Figure 3. Opening a drive is easy: Double-click the icon representing the drive you want to open see Figure 3. Note the different icons for folders and files. Each page icon represents a document file. Each folder icon represents a folder on your hard drive.
You can nest folders within folders to organize the contents of your hard drive. To open a folder, double-click its icon. You can continue opening folders until you see the file or folder you want to work with. To close a window, click the Close button. Each folder window includes a toolbar that you can use to navigate from folder to folder. You can go back and forth among previously viewed content windows.
You can also move up one level in the folder structure to the containing folder. For instance, you might move up to the desktop level and then open drives and folders to move to another branch of the folder structure.
Table 3. You can search for a file, sort the contents, change what is displayed, group icons, and more in the folder window. For information on these tasks, see Chapter 16, "Viewing and Finding Files. Return to a previously viewed folder. You can go forward only if you have clicked Back to go back a step. Display a hierarchical folder list similar to Windows Explorer in previous versions of Windows.
See the next section "Using the Folders Bar. If you want to see a hierarchical listing of all the folders on your system, you can display the Folders bar. You might prefer this view when working with folders and files because it allows you to see the contents of the selected folder as well as all the other drives and folders on your computer. The Folders bar makes it easier to move and copy by dragging, for instance. Click the Folders button to display the Folders bar see Figure 3.
The top level is the desktop. Beneath that, you see the drives and folders on the desktop. You can expand or collapse any of the folders and drives in the list by clicking the plus or minus sign next to the drive or folder. For instance, click the plus sign next to My Computer. When you click a plus sign to expand the folder or drive, the icon changes to a minus sign.
Likewise, you can click the minus sign to hide the contents of that item. When you click an icon, you can see information about the icon in the Details area. For instance, in Figure 3. You also see commands related to working with the selected item. Platform s : Desktop. Developer s : Microsoft.
Family s : Windows. Windows XP Professional X64 support WoW64, a Microsoft technology that allows bit capable software applications to run on a bit Windows operating system. Windows XP has a lot of updates in the user interface compared to Windows ME and , making it easier to use and navigate through files and programs. The appearance of windows shell elements such as desktops, taskbar, start menu, get a better design with transparent icons and shadow drops.
The Start menu gets two columns, and now it is completely customizable by the user. Windows Explorer also gets new features and changes, like task pane useful file actions shown in the left hand sidebar , file thumbnails, sorting, grouping etc. Microsoft's developed multimedia applications have been updated and added more to the operating system, such as a new version of Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Viewer, and Movie Maker.
Minimum for Professional X64 Edition:. Uploaded by isodiscimage on October 8, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Now you are presented with the Format Dialogue box, as shown below in fig 1. Allocation Unit Size: This should be left on the default, unless you have a reason to change it. Quick Format: This option can be selected if the disk has previously been formatted and you just want to clear the data off the disk.
Create an MS-DOS startup disk: This option can be used to copy system files over to make a bootable system disk everyone should have at least one of these.
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