Re: XP Pro boot loop...

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Yes, it's a retail XP Pro sp2 CD. The computer is a 4 year old custom build on an ECS 915-M5 motherboard.

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"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OL223sL1JHA.4272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Howard

Do you have a Windows XP CD for your wife's computer? What is the make and model of that computer?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Howard Woodard wrote:
By the way, my wife's system is also XP Pro, and similarly
configured, so if I need to prepare something to use with my
daughter's machine then I can use it.

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"Howard Woodard" <woodard@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0D5E4D4C-B964-481D-9896-E759BFD049D1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've seen several similar issues but each has had a different slant,
and me being a novice, I'm not sure whether any of them are exactly
my situation or not.

My daughter had a portable USB drive connected to her XP Pro desktop
(built on an ECS 915-M5 mobo) yesterday and was deleting some file
from it when her system just hung. It wouldn't respond to any key
input, including ctrl-alt-del, so after a few minutes she shut it
down with the power switch.

Since then it will not start up Windows. It brings up the boot
options menu from which she can select "last known...", "start
normal...", various "safe modes" etc. No matter which she selects,
when it gets to where it says that it is starting up windows it
immediately goes back to the boot options screen.

I've seen some references to a recovery floppy disk but her system
doesn't have a floppy drive - just the CD/DVD optical drive and the
internal IDE HDD system disk.

Any ideas about what happened and what I need to do to fix her
system? Thanks in advance,

Howard Woodard

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