I was running windows XP. My hard-drive isnt totally screwed because I just formatted it and it works fine.
My computer is custom made by me. Everything seems to be working fine now. Would this just be hard-drive failiure? or is it a virus?
So i booted my t400 ibm laptop and this error message popped up as stated in the message title.My harddrive is in achi mode and i was wondering if i switch the harddrive mode and do a repair with an xp cd, will i lose any files?
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My problem occures after I hit enter for the Select Operating System page. I Hit enter, Win XP proceeds to load. After I hit enter and Windows loads the blue welcome screen 1 minute has passed. I hear the Welcome Audio music, however blue welcome screen is still there for 30 more seconds. Next is my picture that I have as my background that is shown without icons for 1minute 21seconds. Windows now displays my icons on my desktop. the icons blink at minute 4. after 4 minutes and 51 seconds I am able to use my computer. At bootup I only have 43 programs running and 357MB of the 1 gig ram taken.
What I have done:
1) I have started in safe mode and defraged my PC, 0% frag on all partitions except a drive that isn't currently plugged in and it was 1% because it's my backup drive (not worried about that 1%)
2)Removing all connected Componets and rebooted, same problem.
3) I have tried using msconfig.exe and setting the startup selection as Normal- it's defaulted to Selective. Tried reducing my startup programs. ....
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when i try to boot from my sata drive, it says that there are some missing files (that's not strange, if ghost didnt work like it should) when i try to boot from any other drive i get an error like this: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your Computer. If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer.If this screen appears again, follow thease steps: Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run chkdisk/f to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. Technical information: STOP: 0x0000007B(0xF8958640, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000,0x00000000)
I shut off the computer and turning it back on couldn't boot up windows. It gave the windows wasn't shut down properly and I tried the normal restart option and it would just give a black screen with a blinking _ and then nothing happens. Tried loading in safe mode but it gets to mup.sys then "Press Esc to cancel SPTD.sys" flashes below and whether I press Esc or let it be, nothing happens after that.
I tried popping in the windows xp disc that came with the laptop, boot from disc, it starts up but then after loading everything, it then says "Windows is starting up" the disc stops spinning then nothing happens. I tried popping in a windows vista disc and it says "Windows is loading files" with a progress bar, when it fills up, I get stuck with a blank black screen the disc stops spinning and then nothing happens.
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM This is the error message i have. I have a copy of windows xp pro. i have no backup disk.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedHere goes ;yesterday after having used the computer for a while , i rebooted the computer and all i got was a blank screen....no message or logo about windows starting up...i tried several times to no avail.
I googled with another machine and i tried to make an XP boot disk from the XP dvd , copying the needed files on a linux box but my boot disk was no help , just got the message that this was not a bootable disk.
I also tried to boot up from the XP dvd but it froze at the part that says thad the install disk is checking my computer's configuration or such , my system is in the french language .
I could access the disk from linux on my second hard drive and i boot into linux with a floppy , never touched the MBR.
Lilo is on that floppy and windows is the other option but it would not boot from that either.
I gave up after a while , shut down the computer.
Just for the hell of it i gave it a go this morning and the *<"xx...started.
I proceeded to make a boot disk (do not know if it will work though)
The reason i posted is it will probably happen again and the fact that it would not boot even from the XP dvd ( legit , original ) is not very reassuring could it be a bad sector of the hard drive ? Has anyone had that experience before ?
This is Win XP Home Edition on AMD Sempron 2300 , 512mg Ram 80g Maxtor.
Computer won't boot. Restarts before windows xp logo. Won't work in safe mode either. What can I do.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedFirst off, thank you for reading and also thanks in advance for any advice. I dl a free trial of a program called SpeedyPC, which found numerous registry errors. I tried to dl a free full version from a random website ( I know, bad idea) so I could resolve the registry errors. As soon as I ran this executable file, my screen went blank and the system restarted, but did not go past the windows xp screen.I shut down for a while and now the system will not boot up at all. The monitor simply gives a "no signal" message and goes blank.
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It was freezing at the windows screen ( after the bios loading and the f8 option to choose ).
I tried to boot
1. from the emergency repair disk failed
2. from the original win 2000 Cd succeded but when reboot from the HD failed.
I also tried the repair option but wasnt able to boot from the HD.
At a point wasn't able to boot anymore neither from the win 2000 CD.
I decided to install win 2000 at the same HD without making a new partition and now i have win2000 at C:WINNT1 ( the new ) and C:WINNT ( the old )
The file systen is NTFS.
Now i can boot to the second installation.
Is there a way i could transfer or merge the old installation to the new one ?
My nightmare is to do all the programm installations from scratch ,configurate the varius programms and so on.
I'd like to repair the first installation of win 2000 and after that i can boot to it , delete the second one.
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the error message is "0x00000024 (0x001902FE,0xF8AF7378,0xF8AF7874, 0x82E94805)" which is apparently a problem of corruption in the NTFS file system (i don't really know what it means)
I have been using this PC without any problem for 6 months. I wanted to reinstall my Windows XP on my PC and tried to booting up with a bootable Windows XP_SP2 Prof CD(first boot is CD ROM). But to my surprise, the setup process in not taking place. I am getting a grey blank screen(instead of windows setup screen) after this message "Setup is inspecting your Computer's Hardware configuration".This is the case only with the Windows XP bootable CD. I have tried to boot with different WinXP CDs, but of no use. However, I am able to boot with Win 98, Win 2000 and even with Win 2003 via boot CDs.I am suspecting whether there is any problem with the motherboard, as I was able to install Windows XP Pro before on the same PC.
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