AHHH BAKING WINDOWS -SOLVED-

[nutcasert]

Yeah... anyway.

So I take my computer to shop today, (vocational high school, we can work on our own comps), and I got this computer that needs aformat, BAD.

Athlon 900mhz
Asus A7V
128 MB RAM
GF FX5200

Anyway, I got this brand new installation of Windows 2000 cooking and I though I had everything sorted. So I make a list of software that I need to burn at my house to DVD for tomorrow. I went to put said text file on my USB key.

So I plug that USB key in (Victorionox 128MB) and... nothing happens. No new drive. No device detected. Leaving the key plugged in, I reboot my computer - correctly. (as in start -> shutdown -> restart)

So it boots up all good and I'm looking at my login screen. I put the password in, and EXPLORER WILL NOT OPEN!!! NO ICONS! NO WALLPAPER! NO STARTMENU!! But explorer is running in the processes list from ctrl+alt+del. WTF? This happens on EVERY reboot, with and without the USB key, and on two different user accounts that were made.

Booting into safe mode made zero difference.

Oh what can I do oh guru of computer masters?

 

[Brazen]

1. do a repair install
2. recover file
3. wipe and install linux
4. ...
5. profit.

 

[magomago]

Did you get all the drivers installed properly? Sounds like you may run into issues if you don't.

Btw he asked help about getting his USB to work in Windows, not install Linux

 

[Brazen]

Actually, I thought his current problem was getting the GUI to come up. A repair install would probably fix that. How is he going to install drivers if he can't even get the system to come up?

Installing linux was just to remedy all future problems he will inevitably run into with Windows. Plus nobody ever uses the "... profit" anymore, so I got the sudden urge to resurrect it.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Brazen
1. do a repair install
2. recover file
3. wipe and install linux
4. ...
5. become evil linux supervillin
6. hold moon for ransom
7. profit.

fixed

 

[nutcasert]

I'm going to try the repair install now...

 

[Brazen]

Good luck. If you just need to recover important files, you could use a liveCD, such as the Ubuntu or Knoppix liveCDs, to recover your files and copy them to your usb drive, and then do a complete re-install of Windows. I believe Knoppix also has virus scanning tools, that you might try on your drives.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try running memtest86 for a while.

 

[nutcasert]

The repair worked. Thanks for the suggestions guys!

Windows update this time...