My computer (an ACER laptop running XP Pro) rebooted the other day when my back was turned. It wnated to check the disk, so I let it start. The first thing that turned up was "The \pagefile.sys entry contains nonvalid link.
The size of the \pagefile.sys entry is not valid." The check disk function continuned until it got to about 35% and then the whole boot thing started again. It keeps doing this and never gets to actually boot. I ahve tried to start in safe mode, but after printing a long list of system32 stuff, it just stalls and sits there until I turn it off and away we go again. The result is that I cannot even get started so that I can try some of the solutions that have been suggested in this forum before.
The only rescue disks I have came with the machine and it looks like they reformat the whole drive before installing the stuff that was loaded on the machine when I got it.
Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. Ted.
The size of the \pagefile.sys entry is not valid." The check disk function continuned until it got to about 35% and then the whole boot thing started again. It keeps doing this and never gets to actually boot. I ahve tried to start in safe mode, but after printing a long list of system32 stuff, it just stalls and sits there until I turn it off and away we go again. The result is that I cannot even get started so that I can try some of the solutions that have been suggested in this forum before.
The only rescue disks I have came with the machine and it looks like they reformat the whole drive before installing the stuff that was loaded on the machine when I got it.
Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. Ted.