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| | my main hard drive has win xp, but when i try to start it does the loading win xp thing and then just restarts, i needed to get on the computer so i put in my old hard drive which has win 98 on it and switched that drive to master drive and it boots just fine in the same computer, and i know the drive with XP is not corrupt because i can still access it when booted on win 98 from the other drive, but i want to use win xp on the main drive, how can i fix it? |
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| Put the drives back with XP as the main drive. Then boot to safe mode. Use system properties, advanced, startup and recovery and clear the box next to automatically reboot. The next time this happens, you'll see the error message.
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| Chack the main hard drive....check in C:\windows\system32, find the file named "logonui.exe" and move to any different location on the HD.
If that doesn't work then try booting to safe mode in the xp HD.
If you get into safe mode....go the user account config and disable the welcome screen.
-Maurice O'Neal-
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| | maybe there's something wrong with the files that are required to start windows. try doing a repair. if u need help with that i'll leave that to someone else because i don't ahve time to explain it. |
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| thanks for the quick responces guys
i can't get into safemode on the XP drive i already tried
but i'll go try what LordMO said |
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| Take the drive with xp as master,
the drive with win98 as slave.
Start from the xp CD and go to the recovery console.
Take
bootcfg /rebuild
and if eyerything goes fine,the two drives will be
recognized and a new boot.ini will be build.
Beside this you need Xp on FAT 32 to come from the
win98 HDD to XP. |
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| BOOTCFG won't work. You are well past the main startup files according to your description of the problem. Suggest an in place upgrade. Boot to your CD and start a full install. A few screens in setup should detect an existing installation. Choose repair here.
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