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Solved: Boot Problem--Help!

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I have a 2 yr old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with Win XP Home Ed. installed. Never had any major problems until now. Turned the laptop off a few days ago w/o any probs. No error messages etc. Next morning I couldn't get past the F2/F12 boot screen. Safe Mode didn't work either. Used the Win XP installation CD and tried Repair mode. Good news: was back into Windows and everything was running normally. Bad news: assumed it was all okay again and turned laptop off. Next morning: same story again!! Did Repair mode again and am now NOT turning the computer off. BTW, when I am up and running I did a MS Update which involved restarting. This was no problem. It seems, then, that turning the laptop off somehow screws things up. Can someone please help me a) suggest what might be going wrong, b) how I can check for possible sources of the problem, and c) what I can do about it.
Big thanks in advance:) :) :)
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I have not done a chkdisk. The Windows XP installation CD offers two choices: a clean install, i.e. the HD is wiped clean and XP is installed, or to Repair an existing installation. I choose the Repair option in the hope that I hadn't lost all my programs, files, folders etc. Are you suggesting I try chkdisk from within Windows?
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I appreciate the suggestion, but Windows is up and running again after a Repair. Now, however, I want to try and find out why this happened in the first place. Are there any other checks that I can do?
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Ok, Chkdsk completed. Result: Volume is clean
What next? I mean, since I'm not willing to take a risk and turn the laptop off yet, are there any other possible sources of my problem and what do I need to do to find this out.
Thanks again for the support:up:
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thanks again. Could you suggest some HD utilities (preferably freeware) that will do this?
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