When I boot XP it hangs on the Blue screen after the balck XP logo screen. The hard drive continues to be accessed but it not progress with booting up. This is not a virus issue. The OS was corrupted by a disk to disk transfer utility. The disk is completely accessible when installed in another machine as a slave and is not the boot disk. I need to be able to restore the ability to boot up with the current user’s settings, applications and desktop, which are all still on the hard drive. I have tried the Disaster Recovery Console but FIXBOOT and FIXMBR have no effect. I can install a second Windows installation on the hard drive and it will boot into that, but all the application links are lost and they won’t run. Any ideas on how to complete the boot process, and restore the user’s settings?
