Re: Bootup takes 25 mins

Thanks.

The only problem is that since my computer is 5-6 years old, it's unlikely
that I can find my recovery disks.

At least I can get my data while in Safe Mode.

I was "lucky" that I only had to pay $900 to recover the data. The
unfortunate thing is that I could get a full Core 2 Duo computer with a
monitor for only $800.

I paid a heavy price for not backing up in 6 weeks (I was busy with other
things). I figured it would take me about 60 hours of work to recover most of
my files (which luckily I could do). Had I backed up a week prior, it would
have only taken me 2 hours to recover because I didn't do too many changes in
the past week.

Question: If I used a RAID 1 setup (eg, 2 HDs of 360GB each), would I be
able to use one drive if the other dies? I've never used RAID before. Would
Windows Vista inform me that I'm only operating with one HD instead of two?

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

Yes, corrupt. The repair should rewrite whatever was damaged in the drive
cloning process.

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"dvd888" <dvd888@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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