Re: Help! endless boot- check disk loop

Boot to the Recovery Console and use the LISTSVC command to view services their start type. Ues the DISABLE command to disable vsdatant.sys. For help in the Recovery Console type: HELP. For help on specific commands type help commandname, example: HELP LISTSVC.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

John

Wrenchtwister wrote:

When I boot in safe mode I get a black screen that says "safe mode" in the 4 corners but I can't make it do anything else. I did go in the hard drive from my other drive and I think that I deleted all the Zone alarm stuff that I could find. Now it does the xp screen, check disk,then the bsod with the error messages, counts to 100 and does it again over and over till I stop it. I am truely puzzeled.

"John John" wrote:


Boot into Safe-Mode and disable Zone Alarm software and see what happens.

John

Wrenchtwister wrote:


I got it to display the bsod. The error message is stop: 0x0000007e( 4 different parameters)
It also says vsdatant.sys address baaa24do base at baa90000, datestamp 4419a4ed
Any help please? The mskb article was not much help!

"Rich Barry" wrote:



Take a look at this mskb Article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316639/




"Wrenchtwister" <Wrenchtwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:67D73BED-94F3-4DD5-B31D-CD56687D86D0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


I am trying to install XP home upgrade over windows ME. The install seemed to
go ok but when I turned it off and tried to restart it went into an endless
boot-check disk cycle. It boots, goes through the bios set-up,gets to the XP
screen then goes to check disk. During the check it says it is removing
"trailing folder entrys" then reboots again. I let it run about 4 hours
thinking that it "fix" the error and work but no luck. I backed up my hard
drive to another drive and I can still boot to ME on that drive so I don't
think that my computer is bad. It is a HP with a p4 1.3 gig processor,512
ram, 120 hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. PS, it has created over
175 files in the windows folder named dumpxxx, all with 88kb. Thanks!



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