Installation - Having Multiple Boots
Apr 24, 2005
I have 3 hard disks with multiple boot The C drive died on the first disk which uses 98 - I don't use it as an os Disk 2 holds a couple of XP's in different partitions - I use the D drive XP all the time Disk 3 has one os and partitions By installing these os, I was confident that in case of failure I could reboot to another - Huh ! Of course it always looks for boot.ini on the c drive ......I have replaced the C drive and am trying to install XP pro from a cd. It gets so far then when it restarts/reboots the whole damn installation starts from scratch again
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Mar 25, 2006
ok my neighbors Dell was having problems loading windows so i took alook at it it would still lock up in safe mode before the windows login screen so i tried to use the windows disk to repair windows but they forgot the passord that they used and it wouldnt let me repair with out a admin password so i decided to format so i used the windows xp home edition disk to format all the partions and reinstalled windows now its seeing 2 copys of windows when u boot up and giving the option to pick wich windows xp home edition i want to boot with.
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Apr 3, 2006
Fresh format and install onto a 320gb SATA drive. Windows XP SP2.BIOS recognizes the drive.Unless the CD-ROM is ahead of the Hard Drive in the BIOS boot settings, and the Windows XP SP2 install disc is in the drive, the system will not boot.The message displayed is along the lines of "Disk boot error. Please insert a system disk and press enter."If the CD-ROM is moved back or removed from the boot order, this result also occurs.
If the install disc is in the drive, and the BIOS is instructed to look for a CD-ROM boot before a Hard Drive boot, a prompt is displayed along the lines of "Press any key to boot from CD." If no key is pressed, windows XP boots normally. Formating, reinstalling XP, messing with BIOS boot order, confirmed HD reads correctly in BIOS, with and without CDs in drive, repairing master boot record, adding a boot delay in BIOS.
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Apr 5, 2006
I have reinstalled windows for the 3th or 4th time and I am in the process of reinstalling all my programs, I have a few questions:
1) can I erase the directories the programs previously installed in the old version of windows?
As you can see in the attachments, I have installed my windows under the partition D: , so can I just go and erase all the folders of the utilities of my previously installed windows in C: ?
2) just out of curiosity, I tried to run some utilities previously installed and some of them work, other dont work. what does this mean?
3) at the system startup, how can I erase the choice between the 4 windows? I just want to leave this present working version.
4) I noticed a general slowing down of the memory when I run an application, can it be because of this new installation? how can I improve this problem?
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Mar 30, 2007
I had windows xp installed, and i put a new password and forgot it. i didnt know the admin password either. so, what i did was research a little and found that if you proceed to repair windows, and during reparation, if you press shift+F10 you can get a command prompt, type a command and change the password. well i screwed it all up by deleting part of my hard drive by trying to get there. after this i installed a fresh copy of windows on a different partition, or folder, and now i can see my file i need to share, but cant get to it!!! im so scared ive lost everything, i had some priceless pictures on there that my mom would be very upset without.
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Oct 3, 2007
I installed an anti virus program and restarted it. it turned to a screen to boot windows safely. But it couldn't continue. I fixed now by reinstalling but can anyone tell what was the problem.
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May 4, 2007
I've lately had some problems with my win-xp (home) following installation/ un-installation of daemon tools that corrupted some registry files. After an unsuccesfull repair-instalation of xp, i re-installed xp onto the secondary partition of my hard drive (d:, the original instalation being on c. I was intending to format the c: drive, then instal a copy of xp-pro i have onto it
finally moving the files i want to keep back from the d: drive onto the c: drive.The problem i'm now having is on formatting i recieve the error message 'system partition is not allowed to be formatted', as it is the primary partition. Can i go about formatting this drive in partitions and proceed with the re-install without having to remove the files i have on the d: drive? How might i go about this?
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Jul 4, 2006
I started up the computer, watched the BIOS detect the RAM, hard drive, etc, and then was greeted by a blank screen instead of the Windows boot screen. It proceeded though, and after a few seconds flashed to another black screen, this time displaying the cursor. I'm guessing this is the logon screen, but nothing displays but the cursor. (Note that the video card and monitor are both fine...I tried swapping them out just in case.)
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Jun 10, 2008
When I turn on my PC it goes to boot up then automatically shuts itself off.
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Oct 5, 2009
When I first turn on my computer the monitor remains blank and the computer just flashes the CD & DVD lights and I think the HD light is also on but that's it. I tried to press the reset button but nothing happens. If I turn off my power strip and then turn it back on and turn on the computer it boots ok. What is going bad on my machine, the HD, power supply, or could it be the mother board?
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Aug 12, 2005
I turn on my pc and it boots as normal and goes to a screen where I have my users shown. Once I click on any of them it starts to sign on but straightaway changes to logging off and returns to the 3 profile screen.
I can get into my desktop if I go through safe mode though
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Apr 18, 2005
Everytime that i have such kind of problems above when i try to boot my PC it doesn't boot (Means there's nothing comes up on the Monitor with flashing green light, HDD just run for a while then stop, and there's some wierd noise comes out of my Speakers as well it's like chinese or sth, wierd huh?
With that happens if i just leave my PC for a couple of days and try to boot it again, it boots up but somehow it cannot go into the OS and when i try the Safe Mode, it just show me alot of lines and continous beeping.
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Apr 14, 2006
Her computer went into hibernation/sleepmode/standby , and we don't know how to get it back out of whichever one it's using. Nothing boots up on the computer when she reboots and the monitor light doesn't come on.
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Dec 26, 2007
I need my PC secured but now it boots up without prompting me for a password.I running XP media center addition 2005.I have not knowingly made any changes to drop my password prompt and I've jump through too many hoops to reset it than should be listed here.
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Dec 28, 2004
I've had a problem with my computer; in the past, almost every time I turned off the computer and rebooted, I would have to enter safe mode and then switch to regular mode, so I generally kept the computer on. After a longer than normal power outage, my computer doesn't reboot anymore. When I push the power button, it begins to boot and then shuts down. The computer in question has an amd 1,1 ghz athlon, 1 agp video card, 1 pci dual monitor video card (I run 3 monitors), a dvd drive, a cd-rw drive, a 3.5" floppy drive, a soundblaster card, 56k modem, 40 gig hd and an ethernet card for dsl.I'm running xp home edition with sp2. I tried unplugging various cards and drives, but it still will not boot.
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Oct 8, 2005
installed an NIC card into my system earlier tonight as i want to be connected via ethernet, so put the card in the pci slot, booted up the pc. beeps once
no display what so ever and system hangs. tried another monitor, same problem.cleaned some dust from my motherboard and ram while putting the card in.have i messed up the RAM or mainboard in the process??
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Sep 6, 2005
I'm having this problem with windows xp pro fresh install onto sataHD. Pressed F6 and installed sata drivers for the mobo etc. Now i hastento add that i have tried this 3 times now, set up runs smoothly windowsinstalls however when i have finished windows will only boot up withthe CD in the CDROM. Been into Bios and changed boot sequence but stillif no CD it just gets to boot from cd in the boot up screen and stops,put the disk in and windows boots straight up and away we go.
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Oct 31, 2006
ASUS laptop P3, 386MB RAM; XP2 - after scrubbing the drive of spyware and a virus - there was still one remaining - worm/spybot which included these 3 files: explore.exe, svshost.exe and windowsupdate.exe all of which are bogus files. I deleted these manually but did not find any registry entries (run once) that typically is associated with one of these files. Everything looked great until I rebooted because then XP starts, right after the logo screen things go black and the machine reboots forcing you to go to safe mode. You can go to safe mode once then reboot and come up into standard mode ok. Next time you reboot the reboot thing happens and you are stuck in this loop.
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Oct 5, 2010
My PC is around 6 years old, maybe older, and for the last couple of months, mostly during the night (which to be honest scares the hell out of me), it will turn on randomly. Sometimes it's when I move the mouse, which I know had something to do with a setting in the BIOS, but sometimes it's for no reason at all. It just...boots. Sometimes straight after I turn it back off. I've had to unplug it at night.I always shut it down properly - no standby or hibernation.
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Oct 24, 2009
Ok so I just fixed a computer and reinstalled the Operating System. I booted it once an installed all the drivers again then restart it. Upon doing so it failed to boot the operating system. I rebooted it again and said start Windows in safe mode. This results in the Windows XP loading screen appearing but when it goes away the whole system restarts. The same thing happens no matter what I select on the "Windows did not start up last time" screen.
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Feb 22, 2006
I'm getting the following information when I boot up my computer.The system has recovered from a serious error.Here is what happens, I boot and enter my log in password and hit enter. The system then boots again and I have to put in my password and the it loads windows. The system boots a little slower than in the past and then this message comes up saying. "The system has recovered from a serious error"
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Sep 27, 2006
i have a buddies computer here...when it boots up it goes to the xp screenthen goes to the blue screen saying it stopped so as not to damage windows.....i tried reinstall ...repair install even tried to put in new hard drive and done a clean install from a raw disk!!it would start once or twice then try to start again and get this blue screen again!!i took out everything hardware wise and it still happens
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Jun 24, 2006
I have just reinstalled WinXP to try to get rid of this problem but it still persists. Basically, my computer is booting itself up from a powered off state but only when the phone line is connected to it (I have dial up internet access). If the phone line is not connected to it, the PC stays off. (Note the PC isn't dialling out - at least i don't think it is). I guess the easy answer is just to remember to unplug the phone line
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Feb 19, 2005
I recently got a new Dell 3000. Boot takes forever, longer than my old computer. and sometime when i click on programs there's like a 30 pause before something happens. I even tried doing tweaks that i read about.
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Jun 18, 2005
I wonder how to change the way my two systems boots up. When I start my
desktop (with Win XP), it will show the the "Welcome" screen and wait for me
to point to my user name and click on it before it finished and display the
desktop. When I start my laptop (with Win XP), it will show the "Welcome"
screen and finish with the desktop without asking mew to click on "my" user
name. Who do I make my desktop stop asking me to click on "my" user name and
go straight into the desktop screen?
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Sep 1, 2010
then flashes a screen too fast to read then reboots. the original system had boot issues after I used partition software to move to a bigger drive. I messes it up more using "r"repair console to replace mbr. xp setup disk doesn't see the system so it doesn't offer the repair option only the install one. If I slave it to another master WD hard drive with xp and assign it a drive letter I can see the the total contents so it's still all there just can't boot in
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Feb 17, 2008
Before this problem came about, I fixed the Windows error ""Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:" using Windows XP Recovery Console.I cannot anymore access the Recovery Console since it already requires the administrator password which is I think one of the bugs of older Windows XP versions. I cannot upgrade to Service Pack 2 since I cannot access Windows.I really need to access the files in this computer. Reformat is not an option.
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Jan 16, 2007
I have a brand new comp. w/XP MCE the boot times and shut down times are way too slow. Mine boots slower than the P4 3Ghz at my school. (30 seconds to a minute after I press power)My specs:E6600 WD 7200 320Gb 1 Gb DDR2 667 (will get another gig around April)ECS P965T-A.I know it should boot a whole lot faster so an explanation or a link to a site would be helpful. I know there are many factors so another site would be fine.
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Jan 26, 2005
I can't get WinXP to boot in normal everyday run of the mill windows.it'll start in safe mode/s.m.with networking/etc etc.When it goes to start it'll get to point and then "blue screen of death" will appear for a split second then it'll reboot.i had this problem previously and fixed it(virus!) but i have run everything i can think of Norton/Ad-Aware/etc etc and everything comes up clean.I've checked a few things out from reading other posts(i.e. msconfig stuff) but nothing seems to work.
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Feb 6, 2008
System boots fine to XP PRO. When I try and access files on C: drive ( OS is on F: drive), I get an error that the HARD DRIVE IS NOT FORMATED? I cannot access any file on C: drive at all. I tried running DEFRAG on this drive and get an error about 2 files that non readable, etc. How can I access the drive to delete the files, I tried SAFE MODE but same problem. Norton shows no virus?
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Nov 4, 2007
After several weeks of successful running, my Toshiba Satellite T7200 Core2 Duo Laptop (2 Gb DDR2 SODIMM, 100 GB SATA HD) WinXP Pro SP2 with latest patches (Windows Update on) no longer boots normally:System hangs in Windows Start Up screen.Boots and runs successfully in Safe Mode On 11/01, I manually created a System Restore Point after several days of successful operations including booting. When the system hangs in the Windows Start Up screen, and I boot into Safe Mode, the system is successfully booted into normal WinXP Pro SP2 by using the manually created Restore Point. No other (WinXP created) restore points work, i.e., they all hang in the Start Up screen during boot.
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