CF 28 unable to load windows

My dad has a cf 28 that suddenly will not load windows. At first it said "cannot find operating system" and I removed and reinstalled the hdd. Now it begins to load and it comes up saying " there was a problem loading..." I try to start in safe mode, normally, last good start, and no go. A blue box comes up telling me a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down.
Should I just reinstall windows or any other ideas?
Thanks
Mark

 

Is your hard drive failing? Can you boot from CDROM with a live disk? What I found in the long ago DOS days is that computers are logical. If it says it can't find the system then the system is not there.
MBR corrupt?
Just a thought....if you have a way of loading and burning #! Crunchbang Linux to disk on another machine then you can use it to verify the system processes in a low tech way as it loads to ram and does not affect the HDD.
There are other versions(flavors) one that comes to mind is Gparted. I have not played with it yet. I believe it will play with Windows also if you need to re-construct the MBR.
There are some Windows based tools out there to check this stuff too, but I have been focusing on the Linux side.
Good luck with it.
Jeff

 

I would think, mostly the hdd will have some hard errors. Additionaly to the way of Gork! I would use scandisk and checkdisk. They are part of the windows installation. Just start the machine, hit F8, and if u have the choice, u can use the safe mode and select with a rightclick ur partition (c , move to properties, tools, check now. Or select the shell-mode (what is it in english?) and use checkdisk ( How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP ).

 

I could not get windows to load even in safe mode. I did remove the hard drive and replace it with another one I had and it does seem to work fine, evidently the hard drive was just going out on the 28.