Re: Stuck in Setup loop ... (long)
From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst(nojunk)_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:34:41 -0700
This is a great cd!
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXVIII.com> wrote in message news:5dOdnR42kPgTP77fRVn-uA@comcast.com... > If you were able to create the Bart-PE CD then you should have no problem > creating this boot CD: > > http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm > > It's based on Bart's CD but includes a whole lot of additional utilities. > I've only used this a couple of times and had no problems installing > network adapters. > > To increase the chances that someone can help you with this problem, you > might want to post it in the windowsxp.general newsgroup as well as > alt.sys.pc-clone.dell. > > In spite of the successful hardware tests you ran, this sounds more like a > hardware issue than a Windows problem. > > Good luck > -- > Nepatsfan > "Mike Faithfull" <mouse-potato@surfmail.com> wrote in message > news:4223934c$0$10953$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com... >> Long story ... Dell desktop Dimension 2400 running XP Home ... It >> appeared >> to 'lose' a few files Saturday evening. I spent until the early hours of >> Sunday morning searching for and downloading disk utilities with undelete >> and file rescue programs (on a second PC so's not to alter anything on >> the >> disc!) and had no success in finding the files which I thought I might >> have >> accidentally deleted rather than 'lost' due to some technical problem. >> Anyway, it was late and I was tired, so I left the PC powered up and went >> to >> bed intending to resume the battle Sunday morning. >> >> When I got back to it on Sunday, the screen was blank, and no amount of >> mouse wiggling could coax it back to life again - CtrlAltDel could not >> invoke Task Manager .. just nothing. So I hit the power switch, and >> after a >> suitable pause, hit it again. Now, the system booted as far as the >> 'Welcome' screen, but there it hung. Again, the only way out was to turn >> off the power. I repeated this cycle three or four times, but nothing >> different happened. So, I decided to RTFM, found the original O/S CD >> (still >> sealed in its envelope) and followed the instructions in the manual to >> recover the system. I chose to 'repair' things 'cos I didn't want to >> re-install XP completely and run the chance of losing more data. >> >> Well, everything seemed to proceed as expected until the point where >> Setup >> was "Completing Installation" according to the legend above the little >> coloured bar - this was at a point where I could expect it to be finished >> in >> 25 minutes according to another message elsewhere on the screen. >> Unfortunately it never got any further than that - listening carefully >> and >> watching the indicator light it was clear that there was no disc activity >> and the process had 'hung'. Again, the only way out was to hit the power >> switch. >> >> On re-applying power, the system was clever enough to realise that it was >> part way through doing something fairly important and it told me "Setup >> is >> restarting ...". Regrettably, it then followed the same route as before, >> and hung again during the "Completing Installation" phase. And again. >> And >> again. And again. >> >> Oh, at some point - not sure where, it's getting a bit hazy now but it >> was >> fairly early on in the proceedings - I did try to restore to a previous >> 'known good' configuration but that didn't work. >> >> I've spent a good while researching the Microsoft support info and there >> are >> many articles on 'Setup stops responding ...' but not at the 'completing >> installation' stage, it seems. As a desperate final measure, I used the >> Recovery Console to fix the boot sector on the disc and then to fix the >> master boot record - which it reported as non-standard or corrupt. >> Seeing >> that message filled me with hope that it would now boot happily, but >> still >> nothing seems to be any different. Using the inbuilt facility I have run >> hardware diagnostics on the CPU, memory and disc and all tests passed >> without error. >> >> I've made a bootable CD (Bart-PE) which provides a limited sub-set of >> Windows functions, and I had intended to use it to copy the most >> important >> files across a network connection to the other PC before re-formatting >> the >> disc and re-building from scratch, but the program isn't able to install >> networking for some reason ("Can't install network adapter"). I am able >> to >> use the program to look at boot logs and setup logs on the hard disc, but >> there's masses of data there, and I don't have the knowledge that would >> let >> me recognise any particular failure message as being significant in the >> contect of the present difficulty anyway! >> >> I had thought of removing the hard disc and installing it temporarily as >> a >> slave drive in the second PC, but the second PC is running Win98 and it >> would not, I'm advised, be able to cope with the NTFS file system on the >> XP >> disc. >> >> So, before I finally give up and face the loss of precious data, please >> can >> anyone suggest anything more I can try. Please? >> >> Oh, and if this isn't really the best group to be asking this question, >> please will you accept my apologies and point me in the right direction? >> Ta >> much. >> >> > >
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