Startup Loops Into Safemode - But Won't Start-up

Hello,
Notebook computer - Laptop CLEVO
Model - D87P Product Code - D870P
WinXP-PRO
17" ATi Mobility 9700

On Start-Up
FIRST LOAD PAGE.

Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Copyright 1985-2003 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
BIOS Revision: V122 1.00.10 KBC/EC Firmware Revision: 1.00.05
VBIOS Revision:VER008.017M.097.000-2005/06/03

CPU - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.4GHz
1023M System RAM Passed
512K Cache SRAM PAssed
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed

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I had some Malware ----- Antivirus2008 ------ Popups - slow system BLA,BLA,BLA....

Tried to load into safemode F8 but didnt work...
This goes out to Mr Lawrence Abrams - I followed your tutorial - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-start-windows-in-safe-mode/

BUT NOT without skipping over the nitty gritty......I forced the safeboot.ini "When I had probs loading Safeboot from F8...

Blue screen when restarting "LOOPING"
***STOP 0X0000000A (0XF7B82354, 0X000000FF, 0X00000001, 0X804E5619)

Insertd XP CD & entered Recovery Console...
C:\> i typed dir
Directory of C:\
There is no floppy or CD in the drive.
C:\>

I eventually got a blue screen after scrolling through the HELP cmd. I think I was trying to copy CMDCON.EXE to C:

*** STOP: 0X00000050 (0XF852EC88, 0X00000001, 0XF734D869, 0X00000000)

*** SPCMDCON.SYS - Address F734D869 base at F734B000, DateStamp 41107c8c

How can I recover from this Loop, Recovery console doesn't SEEM to respond to much of the commands.

Please help I have NOT backed up some important data in last three weeks before school ended.

I have alot of data that I will need next term.... Struggling student

I'd suggest first slaving your hard drive to another PC and attempting to recover your data. If you have access problems when recovering it, here's a link that'll help: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/42756/how-to-fix-an-access-denied-errors/

Once the data is recovered it'll be a lot less stressful trying to fix your Operating System. It appears that the OS has been corrupted, so I'd suggest a repair install of Windows XP as a first attempt. If you have Internet Explorer 7 installed, this may be a problem tho' - but this article has instructions for uninstalling it in the Recovery Console: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917964

If you're unable to uninstall IE7, then I'd suggest skipping the repair install in favor of a format of your hard drive (wipes all data out) and a fresh installation of Windows.

Then follow the directions here for a repair install: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Hi thanks for the quick response....

My laptop has two 80Gb HD's.. ARRAY:1 RAID: Stripe
Is it possible to slave the primary "Stripe 1" to spare pc and edit the boot.ini ??

Restore Boot.ini??? somehow??

I was just wondering that if one can slave and recover files can same be done in reverse ie.. add or amend a file?
And if so can the following be corrected:

Original [operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN

After using MsConfig.exe [operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /safeboot:minimal

IF this can be fixed is there a simple generic text file for replacing the BOOT.ini, so as to allow a normal start?
Thanks Ed.

I know next to nothing about RAID arrays - I'd suspect that you'd need a RAID controller in the PC that you slave the drives to in order to access the array.

If your issue is that there's a problem with the boot.ini file, there are several ways to fix this. The first would be the command "bootcfg /rebuild" (without the quotes) in the Recovery Console. It'll first ask you to name the installation. I'd suggest something a bit different from "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" which is the current name. Then it'll ask you for the qualifiers/parameters. For this I'd suggest using the "/fastdetect" switch only.

Or, you can edit the boot.ini file itself. Here's a link on how to do it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022