Before doing anything else, determine the manufacturer of the hard drive, go to
the manufacturer's web site and download the mfr's hard drive diagnostic
software. The usual manufacturers of laptop drives are Fujitsu, Hitachi,
Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba. If the drive is a Toshiba, there
is NO diagnostic. Run the diagnostic, which will report the health of the
drive, and possibly repair (replace) defective tracks if possible. If the
drive is a Toshiba, download and ruin the free HDAT2 diagnostic, which can do
the same "repairs" and also tell you the SMART parameters of the drive, the best
indicator of the overall health of the drive. If even one "repair" operation
takes place, replace the drive after trying again to do a Windows XP repair.

If you don't know the health of the hardware, it's like driving a car with the
windshield covered... Ben Myers

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:47:36 -0500, "- Bobb -" wrote:

Problem with HP Pavilion 6113 laptop. Need help from experienced "HP / XP
recovery person" please.
During scandisk it was powered off ( don't ask) and then won't boot. I
used utilities to save the data off the laptop's hard drive and now trying
to " Repair XP".
It goes to advanced startup menu - neither last good nor safe work. When
tried it STARTS to boot and echoes startup as far as MUP.SYS then about 5
seconds later restarts - back to HP startup logo - repeats loop: OK need
to repair XP.
But I think it MIGHT be the disk table that's bad - not necessarily XP
?? In any case ...
Where to start to get it to"Fix XP" without reinstalling all of XP/apps ??

With HP's recovery CD ?
If it's a disk issue on C: ( maybe bad sector) will doing a quickrestore
from D: help ?
Or need a Windows XP CD ? and choosing REPAIR ?
Also has the 3 DVD's from HP to completely install XP to a blank disk (
paid extra at hp.com)

HP website kinda vague on exact procedure/outcome.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...name=c00608578
Often it says to go to" START - RUN - ... I can't boot it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
To "fix XP without doing a complete Restore/reinstall " ( to save current
data/apps), where to start ?
Thanks