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XP Won't go past login screen

1349 Views 9 Replies 3 Participants Last post by iluvmybbw, Jan 24, 2005

iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · Jan 17, 2005

Good evening.I am helping a friend with an older emachine that has xp sp 2 installed.When you start the computer it boots all the way to the login screen with all the users then you hear a clang from inside the computer then it restarts.It'll go into safe mode.I ran spybot and adaware from my thumb drive but they both couldn't fix all of the listed problems.Tried to do a disk check but it would stop due too "unspecified error".The hard drive is only a little over 6gigs with 15% free space(after cleanup from safe mode)Got it defraging now(gonna take all nite)

Like I said this is an older machine as my g/f had one just like it and hers had windows 98 on it original.Not sure if my friend upgraded to xp or it she bought it like this.Says it was working fine up until a couple weeks ago.If anyone has any ideas I sure would appreciate all of your time and help.....thanks a lots!!!!!

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iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jan 18, 2005

LOL yeah.....6 gigs for xp and I believe it only has 32 mb of ram too!!!Well when I got the cover off I found that it had a second drive in there too.After figuring out which was the boot drive I removed the extra drive and put in an old 15 gig I had laying around.After i couldn't get the system to recognize it I decided to go ahead and put in my Data Life tool floppy.Was able to get it to the point of copying files from the bad drive over to the other one. Gonna take a bit but if I can get the 15 jumpered right I believe it just might work!!!!Thanks for your time!!

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iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jan 18, 2005

Well got the new drive in and got it to boot up but after rebooting sucker still does the same thing minus the clanging sound!!!!!While I had it running noticed she doesn't have any antivirus running at all and also no firewall.When I get back from work gonna try to get it to boot using norton antivirus.Hopefully this will get it done.

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iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jan 19, 2005

As luck would have it I did have extra ram.Brought it up to 256 and still the same thing happens

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iluvmybbw

Discussion Starter · #10 · Jan 24, 2005

Well I got it working!!!It seems after doing A LOT of research the MBR somehow got screwed up.My guess would be by virus' as she had about 15 different ones on her system!!

Used my xp pro disk to get the recovery console and ran the fixboot and fixmbr commands and all got back to normal.Once got it running ran adaware spybot and symantec antivirus corporate edition and got it all cleaned up.Now it seems good to go.Thanks for all your help!!!

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