Bret
December 11th 03, 11:49 PM
I am having the same problem and noticing others having
the same problem. Worked great last Friday night. I shut
down properly and when I tried to start up Sat. morning it
never would start up. Just would try to go through the
motions very very slowly till it gave up and keep trying
to resart itself over and over again. I have tried every
thing and no luck. I hooked the hard drive back up to my
other computer as a slave to save my files but I have no
access to everything in my "My Documents" folder. I have
not found a way to get to the my documents folder on the
slave drive. When ever I go to it it just shows the files
that are in the master drive My Documents folder. Do you
know a solution to that? Help!!
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm new to these newsgroups, so hopefully I'm submitting
>this to the proper group...
>
>I turned on my PC last night and Windows XP failed to
>start up. It popped to a screen that stated Windows had
>failed to run correctly and I had five options:
>-- Start in Safe Mode
>-- Start in Safe Mode with Networking
>-- Start in Safe Mode with Command Prompt
>-- Start Windows using archived network settings
>-- Start Windows normally
>
>All options failed. Any version of safe mode immediately
>fills the screen with info about hard drives, partitions,
>and file locations. Either option with Windows brings up
>the usual Windows XP startup screen for about 15 seconds
>before the PC reboots and tries again.
>
>I was tired of hourly blue screens on Windows 98, so I
>reformatted my hard drive about one month ago and
>installed a friends copy of XP just to get me going until
>I could buy my own copy. It worked beautifully up until
>last night. The only thing I did with it last night was
>to activate XP with the Product Key from my newly
procured
>copy of XP. The problem is, I purchased an OEM copy of
XP
>to save money, not really knowing what OEM meant. So,
now
>I can't get the normal support from Microsoft. Serves me
>right for going the cheap route, I guess.
>
>Thoughts? Advice? Without being able to access Safe
Mode
>or use the archived network setting, I'm stumped for how
>to troubleshoot the problem.
>
>Many thanks for any help you can provide.
>.
>
the same problem. Worked great last Friday night. I shut
down properly and when I tried to start up Sat. morning it
never would start up. Just would try to go through the
motions very very slowly till it gave up and keep trying
to resart itself over and over again. I have tried every
thing and no luck. I hooked the hard drive back up to my
other computer as a slave to save my files but I have no
access to everything in my "My Documents" folder. I have
not found a way to get to the my documents folder on the
slave drive. When ever I go to it it just shows the files
that are in the master drive My Documents folder. Do you
know a solution to that? Help!!
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm new to these newsgroups, so hopefully I'm submitting
>this to the proper group...
>
>I turned on my PC last night and Windows XP failed to
>start up. It popped to a screen that stated Windows had
>failed to run correctly and I had five options:
>-- Start in Safe Mode
>-- Start in Safe Mode with Networking
>-- Start in Safe Mode with Command Prompt
>-- Start Windows using archived network settings
>-- Start Windows normally
>
>All options failed. Any version of safe mode immediately
>fills the screen with info about hard drives, partitions,
>and file locations. Either option with Windows brings up
>the usual Windows XP startup screen for about 15 seconds
>before the PC reboots and tries again.
>
>I was tired of hourly blue screens on Windows 98, so I
>reformatted my hard drive about one month ago and
>installed a friends copy of XP just to get me going until
>I could buy my own copy. It worked beautifully up until
>last night. The only thing I did with it last night was
>to activate XP with the Product Key from my newly
procured
>copy of XP. The problem is, I purchased an OEM copy of
XP
>to save money, not really knowing what OEM meant. So,
now
>I can't get the normal support from Microsoft. Serves me
>right for going the cheap route, I guess.
>
>Thoughts? Advice? Without being able to access Safe
Mode
>or use the archived network setting, I'm stumped for how
>to troubleshoot the problem.
>
>Many thanks for any help you can provide.
>.
>