My PC was turned off for about 10 days while I was away. When I booted it up it would get as far as displaying the cursor and then it just sits there (left it overnight). In safe mode it displays the safe mode message at the edges of the screen and sits there. Booting to last known (or for that matter anything else) produces the same result. The NTBTLOG file shows the last driver loaded was Cdfs.sys. I originally determined that it was not recognizing my 500G SATA drive that was attached via an add-on controller. This was true even when I booted up BART-PE even though the disk manufacturers utility saw the drive and diagnostics reported no problems with either the controller or drive. Thinking this was the problem I replaced the motherboard with one that had on-board SATA. However, XP Home hung at the same spot. I have installed XP Pro in another partition so I could get at my files but I have a lot of programs instgalled under XP Home, some of which are old and I don’t have the install CD’s. I would like to repair the XP home installation if possible but the XP Home CD does not offer a repair of the current installation only the Repair Console. I have not found anything there that would help.
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