WINDOWS XP NOT STARTING

From: MikeFadd (MikeFadd_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:13:04 -0800

Hi, I was using my computer and everything was working fine. I have Windows
XP Professional Edition w/ Service Pack 2. I also have 2 hard drives, 150 GB
and 250 GB. I have an ATI graphics driver that allows me to watch TV on my
computer. I was watching TV and recording a program...and I was tranferring a
file from on drive to the other to have enough space on my current drive to
record a program. ATI recordings tend to take up GB's of space for recording
shows. Anyways.....I had about 2 GB of space left on my current active drive
and my computer froze right before the file transfer to the other drive
completed, and the recording had stopped, but the TV was still working. No
folders were opening, so I retsrated the computer. To my dismay, when the
computer restarted, no folders were opening, so I restarted the computer
again........here's the problem.......

My computer won't go past the Windows XP starrtup screen. It just sort of
freezes and won't go any farther. I tried running Windows in SAFE MODE and it
works, but I can't really do anything. I managed to move a file from one
drive to the other, giving me 4 GB of space on my current active drive. I've
restarted the computer several times, used SYSTEM RESTORE to the day before,
but nothing is working. I'm currently running my Norton Antivirus software
doing a full system scan. (I ran a full system scan last night as well).

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