Window not succesfully launched

[Jarvis]

Hi.. Windows for idiots.. must have been meant for me.

Anyway, wondering if anyone might know. Hadn't turned on laptop (FX-503) for about 2 months. After powering on and the Windows XP logo appears, message appears saying computer was not properly shut down previously and proceeds to do a file check on C: Message the says - all files okay, Windows XP logo reappears but the process begins again i.e 'Windows was not properly shut down' and proceeds on to the same process. This happens in a continous cycle.

Has anyone encountered something like this before...

[kee-lo_]

Sounds like you need to reinstall Windows

[rich912]

Welcome to Club Vaio, Jarvis.

If you are using the NTFS file system, try the following.
At the point where you get the message that a check of drive C: will be carried out, press any key to bypass the check. Hopefully windows will then load normally.
Then go to Start > Run and type CMD and hit enter. At the command prompt type chkntfs /x c: and hit enter (this will prevent CHKDSK from running on the C: drive).
Reboot and see if this cures the problem.

If this sorts out the boot problem then at the command prompt type chkdsk c: /v /f
to check and repair the volume.

chkntfs /d restores the computer to default ¿ i.e. all drives are checked at boot and chkdsk will run on any that are marked as `dirty¿.

HTH

[Jarvis]

Sounds like you need to reinstall Windows

Thanks for the tip, thanks also to HTH.. could not bypass the check so unfortunately had to reinstall windows.

Thanks again.

[kee-lo_]

Did you manage to install Windows?

[Jarvis]

Yep, managed to reinstall windows with the original Vaio System Recovery CD roms...

[TheCrow]

HTH ... chkdsk is very good
good job

Kee-lo , Installing windows is not best choose .. because fixing problem on windows is very easy . microsoft made good feature on windows XP

[kee-lo_]

Glad it's all sorted

[Jarvis]

HTH ... chkdsk  is very good
good job  

Kee-lo , Installing windows is not best choose .. because fixing problem on windows is very easy . microsoft made good feature on windows XP

I'm not sure if I could have avoided it... it would not let me bypass the system check or even type in a command.

[rich912]

 HTH ... 

I will have to stop using that. It is not a signature - HTH = hope that helps:smileywink:
RICH:smileytongue: