Re: Help! endless boot- check disk loop

Thank you very much, that was exactly what I had to do! Now I have 1 more
question. Should I go into add/remove programs and remove the zone alarm and
if so should I use the windows firewall or something else? Thank you !!

"John John" wrote:

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
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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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