Hi all,
I can't get my XP system to finish booting. BIOS is ok, everything is
recognized, the initial black Windows XP screen comes up, then, the
two-tone, striped blue Windows screen comes up. Normally the system
just logs me in after this screen. Now, however, the system just hangs.
The hard drive lights turn off and the system is frozen -- it won't even
respond to me pressing the cycle power button.

The background is that this drive was ghosted over from a working hard
drive using Norton Ghost 9. I did the backup from the Windows
application, not from a floppy. I got no errors, and it looked as if
everything was fine. Then, I went ahead and installed a RAID
controller, and set that up. As it turns out, it copied the crappy
version of the hard drive onto the working one, and now I'm stuck with
two hard drives that won't boot!

I've tried booting in safe mode; it gets me to the exact same point and
then freezes the same. I've tried restoring to the "last good"
configuration, and that also gave me the same results. Following some
other suggestions I found online, I made backups of each of:
C:\Windows\System32\Config\System
C:\Windows\System32\Config\Software
C:\Windows\System32\Config\Sam
C:\Windows\System32\Config\default

and replaced them with:
C:\Windows\Repair\Config\System
C:\Windows\Repair\Config\Software
C:\Windows\Repair\Config\Sam
C:\Windows\Repair\Config\default

This didn't work either.

Any thoughts on what the heck is going on and how I can fix this
problem?

Thanks in advance!


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Quimbly