Two PC's two problems.. How do you fix?

[thestain]

Loading your personal settings.... is as far as I get from safe mode or normal ... shift key does not seem to help.. during logon.. password entered.. appear to have some option as Admin in safe mode with command prompt that can get me in, but not sure what to do

Just uninstalled Kapersky free trial and now can't boot into Windows with PC 1

It hangs when loading user preferences after entering password to sign in to Windows XP.

I have retail CD of XP, but.. what if anything can I do to boot in?

Second PC, this one.. cleaned up some by putting in other system, but.. worried might be near the end..

Hard Drive burst speed on this PC, PC 2, is about 2.1 MB/s compared to around 90 on other PC, PC 1, and per HD tune maxes out at 2.1 on this PC while maxes out around 40 on other.

Maxtor 250 GB Hard Drive. Lots of Hardware interupts.. could Hard Drive controller be going on original PC? How to fix? ideas?

Most crucial is getting Windows to boot on pC 1 the newer one with all my crucial programs and data needed for work.

Not sure how I messed up, but I ran Kapersky free trial and uninstalled to check out PC 2 OS hard drive on PC1 and then did a lot of defraging and then ran Acronis True Image 9.0. Now I can't boot into PC 1, but.. while PC 2 OS will now boot, still has plenty of hardware interupts and max HDD speed of 2.1 MB per second compared to around 40 MB per second on PC 1 when I tested it. Burst speed on PC 1 is around 90 for PC 2 OS and yet only 2.1 on PC2.

Anything i can do.. load to boot into Windows on PC 1?

Anything i can do to fix hardware interupt issue, slow HDD on PC2?

I have original retail CD for Windows XP Pro for PC 1 and image install CD for PC 2 of Windows Home XP

Mike

 

[JustaGeek]

Try loading the "Last known configuration that worked" after pressing F8 during POST.

If that doesn't work, do the Repair Install of Windows. One original Windows CD is sufficient, but you need two separate Windows keys for both computers.

Repair Install will replace all the corrupt OS files, leaving your data and software untouched. You will only have to update Windows.

Good luck!

 

[dclive]

(Assuming no change with LKG...in other words, try that first, then...)

If you can boot in safe mode then there are lots of options - disabling services related to kapersky, running msconfig to disable everything listed (literally, safe MS services)...

If you think it's a profile corruption issue (which is possible if the issue only happens when logging in with one user) build another user account and log in using that profile and let us know if anything changes.

But overall, the msconfig route (and disabling services and startup programs) is where I'd start.

 

[thestain]

Hi,

Can't get past logon with safe mode.. I actually did with system prompt very first try, but now can't get that far again.

When inserted windows xp retail cd, went through whole thing only to ask me to insert restore cd or something like it at end.. don't have anything else.

Is there some key I need to hit to get into repair mode a different way?

 

[JustaGeek]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[JustaGeek]

You can use WinPatrol to enable/disable Startup Programs and services - much more "user friendly" than msconfig. It will monitor your computer, too.

http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

 

[thestain]

finally got into safemode with command prompt.. took about 45 minutes and lots of prayer and cussing before I got in... now I can take it from here.

Thanks again!

Mike

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: thestain
finally got into safemode with command prompt.. took about 45 minutes and lots of prayer and cussing before I got in... now I can take it from here.

Thanks again!

Mike

I will use this method the very next time I have a problem! LOL

Good for you!