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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?

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by angela.brown2

Can you boot into safe mode? If so, then the problem is probably a windows driver. If you can get into safe mode disable drivers and reboot. If you can reboot, re-enable one driver. Reboot. Repeat the process until you find the suspect driver. Then you can reinstall a fresh copy of the driver. You can also try running a repair by booting to your setup cd and choosing the repair option.

by dmiles

How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
Note You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
Click Start, click Run, type msconfig in the Open box, and then click OK.
On the General tab, click Selective Startup, and then click to clear the Process System.ini File, Process WIn.ini File, and Load Startup Items check boxes. You cannot clear the Use Original Boot.ini check box.
On the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.
Click OK, and then click Restart to restart your computer.
After Windows starts, determine whether the symptoms are still present.

Note Look closely at the General tab to make sure that the check boxes that you cleared are still cleared. If additional check boxes are disabled and the problem is not resolved, you may require assistance from the manufacturer of the program that places a check mark back in Msconfig.

If none of the check boxes are selected and the problem is not resolved, you may have to repeat steps 1 through 5, but you may also have to clear the Load System Services check box on the General tab.
Click Start, click Run, type msconfig in the Open box, and then click OK.
On the General tab, click to select the Process System.ini File check box, click OK, and then click Restart to restart the computer. If the problem continues to occur, the issue is with an entry in your System.ini file. If the problem does not continue to occur, repeat this step for the Process Win.ini File, Load Startup Items, and Load System Services (if appropriate) check boxes until the problem occurs. After the problem occurs, the last item that you selected is the item in which the problem is occurring.

by nbp backup

Poster rated this answer. Please read the problem description. I cannot boot the computer. It hangs in the middle of the boot process.

by murray brydon

I have previously had a similar problem that was resolved by swapping the IDE cable which had been (for some reason)a 40-conductor cable for an 80-conductor cable. After this it booted OK.

by nbp backup

Poster rated this answer. It was that simple. Thank you, you deserve the points for this question.

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