RE: WINDOWS XP NOT STARTING

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


Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:49:03 -0800

I MISTYPED......it wasn't system recovery.......it was the other option on
the blue installation startup screen besides installing windows (which i
don't want to do!)

-Mike

"MikeFadd" wrote:

> 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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