Re: W2KPro loads but no icons/taskbar show.
From: Josef Stalin (FatherNiceGuyJosefStalin_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/09/04
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:45:53 -0500
"Steph" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Joe,
> I went by the book & tried everything you recommended to
> no avail. Plenty of space, but fixboot & fixmbr did
> nothing to improve my scenario. Because anything sensitive
> is saved to servers, blowing away the partition and re-
> installing W2KPro seemed the only answer. The box in
> question seems to be behaving, but intellectual curiosity
> (not to mention the fact that I spent way too long on this
> problem) has me wondering if I embraced the scorched-earth
> policy way too early in the game. Your thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Steph
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> >"Stephanie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message
> >news:8d7a01c40493$00bdaa30$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >"Stephanie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >> in message
> >> >news:5b9001c40489$3fd375b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> >> One of the W2KPro machines in my office will go
> through
> >> >> POST and appear to start normally. The background
> shows,
> >> >> but no icons or taskbar are displayed. Also, at this
> >> point
> >> >> the keyboard and mouse do not function. I have tried
> >> >> booting in safe mode with the same result - the
> >> turquoise
> >> >> background typical of the safe mode startup displays,
> >> but
> >> >> no icons or taskbar and no "Safe Mode" in corners as
> >> >> expected. Can somebody tell me what went wrong?
> >> >
> >> >Have you been running an up-to-date anti-virus program?
> >> >
> >> >Have you booted up with a w98 floppy disk and looked
> >> around on the 'C'
> >> >drive? Is there any available space? Have you tried
> >> doing a chkdsk?
> >> >Another thing to try is fixboot and fixmbr. I also
> empty
> >> out the temp
> >> >directory (although I doubt that's the cause of your
> >> problem). These are the
> >> >first things I try when I faced with these type of
> >> unknown situation.
> >> >
> >> >Uncle Joe
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Take the "NiceGuy" out of
> >> FatherNiceGuyJosefStalin@Yahoo.Com to respond
> >> >
> >> >Joe,
> >> Thanks for your quick reply. This machine is behind a
> >> Sonicwall with extremely up-to-date McAfee definitions,
> so
> >> I don't think viruses are the issue. I made it run
> >> Scandisk, and is says that Windows has modified the file
> >> table (the HDD is FAT because we still are using some
> >> MSDOS network apps), but I guess I'll try to run chkdsk
> >> after booting to a command prompt. Am I on the right
> track?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Steph
> >> >.
> >> >
> >
> >Ok, viruses are out of the question.
> >How about free disk space?
> >If that computer was dumped on my lap, I would first try
> to do a chkdsk.
> >Since you have nothing to lose, and I've never had a
> negative effect due to
> >using these programs I would try fixboot and fixmbr (from
> the DOS command
> >line). You'll see some warnings that'll scare the crap
> out of you.
> >If that doesn't work, try repairing W2K with the install
> disk.
> >
> >That's the protocol we use.
> >
> >Uncle Joe
> >--
> >
I dunno. Someone just brought me a computer that was declared utterly and
totally dead with absolutely no chance of revival. I did exactly what I
said in my previous posts:
Boot up in W2K.
go to repair console
fixboot
fixmbr
chkdsk (this is what probably fixed it).
At this point, I was able do a dir and it worked.
Had it not, I would have done a repair w2k reinstall.
The only times I have use the scorched-earth policy is on a suspected bad
disk; we get a particular brand of of hard disks and a bunch of them go
belly up. I have done some other funky repairs but you wouldn't believe
them so there's no sense in telling them.
If I had your disk here, I probably could get it up and running.
Uncle Joe.
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