Here is a site that can give you some new ideas how to get your computer to boot. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...7-6031733.html Also, do you know what kind of hard drive you have? Such as a maxtor or seagate. Let me know which one and I can give you the details on how to make a hard drive stress test boot disk to rule out your hard drive. If we can get your computer to boot so you can get your powerpoint, you can do a full format and install of windows instead of a repair. Let me know what you find out.

 

External drives fail more often than internal- put a COPY of them on there, never put ALL your documents on an external.

What youre experiencing is common to windows corruption of winlogon and lsass which usually comes with A) failing harddrive B) bad ram.


You can try replacing all the logon files thru recovery console (google instructions on how to use and what files)

Or, as suggested, fastest method would be backup and reinstall.

You can reinstall windows without losing any data if you have an actual xp cd, just follow the prompts.

You definetly want to run some basic diagnostic tools like memtest or hdtune to make sure your hardware is ok. Many people are quick to blame windows for all of its problems, when in reality a huge part of the time is faulty hardware causing things to go wrong to begin with.

 

Yep yep yep!!


you marines arent as slow as the media makes you out to be........


(jk )

 

Look down at your chest, see that laser, I wouldn't move if I were you. Haha,just kidding. Contrary to what most people think, Marines are not robotic killers. We are sexy robotic killers. Ok, Im done, gotta get up early,lol.

 

Boot from last known good configuration doesn't work.
Boot in safe mode no worky.
Boot from XP CD no worky.
Repair windows - nope.
Recovery thing........no work either.

All get me to the 'Welcome' page, click on 'user', type my password and still switches from "Loading personal settings", to "Logging off, saving personal settings" about a half a second of seeing my desktop background page.


I have no clue what kind of hard drive I have. It is a built PC, and all I know it has been upgraded once with a new mother board, power supply, hard drive, graphics card, etc. This was about 4 years ago, after originally purchasing about 4-5 years previous to that. I know, I know...it's time to move a little farther away still from the dark ages. I have a feeling the upgrade to Media Player 11 was not compatible with the older hardware and just made a complete mess of things. I have no confidence in that theory either as I don't have a clue and really am just thinking out loud.

Forgive me if I called something as it is not commonly known amongst the PC vocabulary. Like I said, I know just about enough to get me into trouble.


That's right........laugh it up upon my shortcomings in puter savvy...........it's OK..........I am aware that I'm not technologically advanced in this department and my redneck disposition shines through.

 

Are you worried about losing your powerpoint? If not, than throw the xp cd in and do an install instead of a repair. It will give you the option of doing a full format, do so. If this does not solve your problem, than you most definitely have a problem with your hard drive. This is the quickest fix however you will lose ALL information on your computer, so make sure you are positive you don't need any of it. If you need some of that info, than pull off your side computer panel, and try to get a model number and company off your hard drive. Seagate bought out maxtor, so they are one in the same now, but I still need a model number so I can get you info how to make a boot disk. Let me know what you find out.

 

Update: I've made no progress and have been unable to speak to Mr. Dean Snow on the phone as he cannot pick up my out-of-country calls. Looks like I'm going to have to take it in. A buddy contacted his PC guy regarding setting me up a new system and attempting to grab everything off mine and transferring. Not the expense I wanted to incur right now, but might be my only option.

Thanks for the help, but I think it may be the hard drive and not software issues.

 

Sounds like your HDD cratered.

MikeyB

 

Could very well be. Incidentally, I found this advertisement just in time: http://edmonton.craigslist.ca/sys/564593681.html


I doubt I'll be buying this, but funny how it conveniently showed up on Wed. night.