XP windows wont load

[skano]

My comp was working fine , then i when i went to restart it it just stayed stuck on the Windows Loading Screen , the lil blue bar keeps moving .

tried loadin up on safe mode and it stays stuck .. i tried takin out 1chip of ram out .. switched video cards still same crap

heres my specs/
XP pro sp2
80gb/120gb
1.10ghz AMD
1gb ram
geforce4 ti4200 128mb

 

[Spike]

Try pressing f8 while windows starts, and boot it first in verbose mode (so you get the list of files being loaded - I forget the option name for the time being. See if it's stopping at a particular file.

Try booting into last known good configuration or failing that, safe mode.

We don't have enough information to go on at the moment.

 

[skano]

Well after i kept turning it off manually i unplugged my E drive and plugged it back in .. while the windows took like 5min to load it went to the blue screen where it was fixing 3 stages from the E drive .. took about 30mins to finish .. now my comp loaded up...


im afraid to restart it tho

 

[Spike]

lol. well, use it as you normally would, and then restart it. If you get a problem then deal with it when you get it.

You can't leave it on forever you know

For the moment, I'm glad for it's started working again.

 

[mikescorpio81]

Just to add:

When you're into a stable session of Windows, goto START>RUN & type msconfig

On the first tab (General) there is a diagnostic start-up. Click that. Also, on the Boot.ini tab there is a switch /sos ... select that too.

Note when it re-boots if it hangs on a particular driver ...

Cheers :grinthumb

 

[skano]

Should i restart once i do that ? ^^^

 

[mikescorpio81]

yes ... re-boot once you've made those changes

let us know how u go

 

[skano]

i did it , just started up on safe mode ...

everytime i restart tho , after the windows loadup part , a Blue windows screen comes out.

"Checking File systems in E:
the type of the file system is NTFS
Volume label is D2
One of your disks needs to be check consistency...ect
CHKDSK is verifying the files (3stages[%])"

 

[Spike]

E: is flagged as dirty. Try running chkdsk on it while in Windows.

 

[skano]

how do i do that ?

 

[altheman]

start->run->type in "cmd" press enter
in the black windows, type in "E:" (without quotes) then press enter
again type in "chkdsk/f" (without the quotes) and press enter.

 

[mikescorpio81]

If you did what I suggested, that WAS chkdsk running at start-up. Try & load Windows properly this time (not safe mode) ...

Also, did you notice your PC takes a while to load a certain driver? mup.sys is the last in the list and seems like it hangs on it but really its not (its just large).

 

[skano]

If you did what I suggested, that WAS chkdsk running at start-up. Try & load Windows properly this time (not safe mode) ...

Also, did you notice your PC takes a while to load a certain driver? mup.sys is the last in the list and seems like it hangs on it but really its not (its just large).

it did do a chkdsk , does it on normal settings aswell..