Re: Bootup takes 25 mins

Are you saying that my Windows is corrupted?
Why does Safe Mode work?
Would you mind answering the question I had below asking whether Windows
cares what HD I have or will an exact copy of my HD onto another HD work? Or
does Windows prevent that from working (hence crippling my bootup)?

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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"dvd888" <dvd888@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have Windows XP Pro on a 5-year old computer P2-2.4GHz.
Normally it takes 2-3 mins to bootup. Recently my 80GB HD died. I paid for
a
data recovery firm to make an image of my drive and they put it on a 160GB
internal HD so I can use it in my computer. They told me I have a few bad
blocks but they are able to copy something like 99.9% of my blocks over.

If I boot up in Safe Mode, it takes 1 min.
If I boot up in Normal Mode, it takes 25 mins to get to the user login
screen. After I enter my password, it takes another 35 mins to start
everything up.

Question: Does WinXP expect to run on the original HD (ie, it detects any
MAC ID of the drive)? Is it purposely booting up slowly because I am
using a
different HD?

The second time I tried it, after the 35 mins, I couldn't start up any
programs.

The third time I tried it, after I put in the password, it doesn't go past
the login screen at all!

I've only tried bootup 3 times.

I just tried Safe Mode again and it booted up in 1 min and I could start
any
program.

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