Re: BSOD on boot, can't even get into safe mode

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Felix,

It sounds very likely that your hard disk may be failing. Note that
damaged registry files (as well as the Sysprep problem) often cause the
password problem. I don't know if this is feasible for you, but my
practice in servicing this type of problem is to slave the problem hard
drive to a service machine before attempting reinstalls and more drastic
measures in order to recover all possible data files. Then, run chkdsk /r
on the problem drive. If the drive is failing replace it. If not, then you
may need to reformat and do a full reinstall.

If you do not have the facility to copy your files by slaving the drive,
then go with Ricks suggestion for a parallel installation, but be sure to
run a chkdsk /r after that (hopefully) works and you have backed up your
files.
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<felix32@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1120109201.655568.285450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have WinXP Home SP2 on an HP Pavilion 4200 Notebook, with an AMD1600
> and 1Gb RAM.
>
> Things started to go wrong when I got error messages on boot telling me
> that winlogon.exe couldn't start because shell.dll wasn't found, and
> that msgina.dll failed.
> Looked up the problem and Microsoft blamed one of their updates, and
> told me to restore the files from the CD. I tried, and of course it
> wanted the administrator password. Now, the machine is 2 years old and
> I've never once used the admin p/w, but there were only two options as
> to what it was and I tried them, upper and lower case. No soap,
> password rejected.
> So I started to go round the long way and do a complete restore from
> the OEM CD. This seemd to load up OK, but when it got to the end and
> rebooted for the last time, I got a split-second flash of BSOD halfway
> through the boot, and a restart.
> And that's all I've had since.
> I've tried starting with:
> Last Known Good Config
> Safe Mode
> Safe Mode Networking
> Safe Mode Command Prompt
> and all do exactly the same BSOD thing and restart. The thing flashes
> up so damn fast I can't possibly read the error message.
> Now I'm stuck. The only thing I can think of (unless anyone can help!)
> is a complete reformat and OS reload, which will lose me 2 years of
> stuff . . .
>


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