Hi I have a compaq laptop and I have Tried to reformat because it would not boot into windows.It had windows xp professional sp2 installed on it. When reformatting, it would stop and give me the blue screen that said Stop, something about failure to load or unload or something and partmgr.sys . Now I have tried to reformat about five times now, and it doesnt even get into setup the last time i tried. but before that it kept giving me the same error message about partmgr.sys . Thank for any info
If you have an XP disc, load it in the cd drive and restart the pc. You might have to go into the bios first and set your mother board to boot form cd first. After you restart, you might have to hit del button or the F1 or F2 to get into the bios. Once there find start up sequence where it will read something about boot order. CD should be first, hard drive second and so on. Don’t change anything else! Restart with the XP disk and let it do it’s thing. IT will come to a part where it will ask you what you want to do. Choose “R” for repair, then you should be able to get it to a prompt of you hard drive. It will ask you what partition you want to mount choose c:. It will probably ask you for an administrative log on to mount this drive. If the admin password has never been altered by default it should be blank. Once at the prompt where you will see you cursor flashing type in the following. chkdsk c: /f /r where c: is the drive you want to check, /f means it will attempt to fix any errors found, and /r locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. Make sure when you type in the command chkdsk you space once and then the /f space again and then the /r. This will at temp to fix any bad sectors on you hard drive and fix your boot record if corrupt. restart the computer. Hope this helps, and Good Luck. Please if you feel uncomfortabe to this ask a friend who might be more experianced. Not recommended to change anything else in bios or from the c prompt. This may or may not be the solution, I have preformed this function many times on similar situations and it has resolve the BSOD. I wouldn’t recommend reformatting until it’s a last resort to preserve you files and information.
When did you load SP2? Did the computer function normally after download? If the download was recent, remove SP 2, reformat then reload SP2.
Many users had multiple issues loading SP2, I was one of them.
sound like you destroyed your laptop. only thing i know is you need to install windows xp again and make sure on your setting that your CD ROM drive is your primary booting option.
If it is still under warranty send it in or not reformat with a different cd or program that you can get from a store or a friends XP disk.
you will have to reinstall windows from original cd.
it could be bad memory … if the system have more than one stick try removing them one at a time to isolate the faulty stick of ram