- Can't get XP to finish booting
- Posted by Man From The Moon on October 17th, 2005
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!
- Posted by JaRaEeZ on October 17th, 2005
Hi there,
Have you tried to do a repair from the cd, then maybe you need to add the
drivers for your raid card during the repair
HTH
"Man From The Moon" wrote:
> 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!
- Posted by JaRaEeZ on October 17th, 2005
Hi there,
Have you tried to do a repair using your CD to boot, then maybe add the
drivers for your raid card during the repair
HTH
"Man From The Moon" wrote:
> 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!
- Posted by chippy on October 19th, 2005
"Man From The Moon" wrote:
> 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!
- Posted by chippy on October 19th, 2005
I had the same prob i removed the hdd installed witha formated hdd loaded xp
then put original hdd in as a slave then cleaned up the hdd no probs
"Man From The Moon" wrote:
> 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!
