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07-31-2003, 01:30 PM
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Windows XP Pro. will not start
I got a computer with WindowsXP Pro. installed on it. Some mess happened, of which I really don't know, now when the computer is started up I am brought to the screen which says that windows did not successfully start last time, and it gives the choices of safe mode (regular, networking, command line), last successful configuration and to start windows normall.
No matter what is chosen, it goes to the screen of the long grey bar at the bottom, the bar fills up like it's suppose to and thats the end of it. It just sits there. No hard-drive activity either. Anything I can do here in the direction of recovery? I mean if I have to re-install windows for this guy I'm gonna charge him seventy-five dollars to do it.  I'll keep googling also... |
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07-31-2003, 02:30 PM
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A boot from Winxp CD and a repair installation should do the trick, unless some hardware has gone bad and windows is stuck trying to initialize that peice of hardware and load the drivers for it, but if safe mode hangs also I would tend to think it's more likely a software problem and a repair installation should clean it up...
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07-31-2003, 02:32 PM
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I would try booting from the XP disk and use the repair function. HTH
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07-31-2003, 02:38 PM
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Ok, thats what they told me on IRC also. Thanks a bunch, I'll try that and let you know. BTW, with a repair install are personal files, programs and settings lost?
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07-31-2003, 02:47 PM
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07-31-2003, 11:27 PM
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Well I thank you guys for your assistance. Was able to do a repair install, then after that I attempted to walk into windows and it froze during the loading screen. I restarted the computer and was able to get in under Safe mode. At that time I didn't realize that I should have been looking for bad things in the startup thus I didn't see any reason to stay in safemode after checking for restore points (I found NONE).
After restarting again I was no longer able to get into windows. Safe mode would freeze after Mup.sys (i think thats how it's spelled), Starting normally froze at the loading screen and last good config froze after the long grey bar. It looks like I'm gonna have to re-install windows. See windows is ok but people don't take care of their installation, they act like it's invinsible and mess stuff up like this. What you guys think? |
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08-01-2003, 01:46 AM
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I think one has to work at it to mess up xp
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