Re: Stuck at Windows is starting up...

pat wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:16:12 -0600, "Jason Piercey" <Jason@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Had some power issues in the last couple of days (ice storms, etc..)
and now my desktop won't fully boot. Goes through all the normal
motions and then stops at "Windows is starting up..." and will sit at
that state for as long as you care to wait.

The boot partition is one of 4 partitions on this drive on a XP Pro system.
I have not tried any repair tactics yet. Should I boot to a secondary drive
and try to access the original boot partition (just to get a little bit of data I
wish to keep, then reinstall the OS), or should I try a repair install via the
installation CD? Or something else? This is a SATA drive, if that matters.

Thanks for any pointers.

Do a repair install
Pat

Which may or may not fix the problem as the problem may be a hardware device that got screwed by the storm. Personally, I would run an Ubuntu Live CD first to see if the hardware is OK.

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