delayed write failed....

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i was poking around in the "advanced" tab of the system
proerties on my winxp box and i saw an option to use the
system ram for either programs or cache. it was setup for
programs and i though since i have a gig of ram that if i
set it up for system cache my machine would be faster.
after i restarted, i get delayed write failed c:\$MST and
dozens of other similiar messages. this is as far as i can
get (the login screen) i cant even get into safe mode to
change the setting back, it just hangs when loading MUP
and then restarts after a while. I did poke with the
recovery counsel to try to back up my inmportant data, but
every time i tried accessing the "documents and settings"
folder, i always got access denied. i really need help.
i dont care if i have to format, i just need to get access
to back up my email from outlook. all help is
appreciated. (PS, lesson leaned)

regards

rick
 
i was poking around in the "advanced" tab of the system
proerties on my winxp box and i saw an option to use the
system ram for either programs or cache. it was setup for
programs and i though since i have a gig of ram that if i
set it up for system cache my machine would be faster.
after i restarted, i get delayed write failed c:\$MST and
dozens of other similiar messages. this is as far as i can
get (the login screen) i cant even get into safe mode to
change the setting back, it just hangs when loading MUP
and then restarts after a while. I did poke with the
recovery counsel to try to back up my inmportant data, but
every time i tried accessing the "documents and settings"
folder, i always got access denied. i really need help.
i dont care if i have to format, i just need to get access
to back up my email from outlook. all help is
appreciated. (PS, lesson leaned)

regards

rick
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When you boot up your computer, instead of going into dafe or normal mode,
go into last known good (something), and that will get you in to change back
what you did.

Good luck. Ken
 
When you boot up your computer, instead of going into
dafe or normal mode,
go into last known good (something), and that will get you in to change back
what you did.

Good luck. Ken
Click to expand...

I have also tried this. when i do this my computer starts
booting into windows xp. Then it goes to the blue screen
and starts testing the drives file systems. it scans the
different drives and they are ok. (it does this when i
start up normal too) then it boots into windows and i get
the following message. "windows was unable to save all
the data for the file C:\docs and
settings\networkservice\local settings\desktop.ini. The
data has been lost. this error may be caused by a failure
of your computer hardware or network connection. please
try to save the file elsewhere." i get tons of the same
errors except with differet files such as: c:\windows,
c:\$MST, e:\$MST, c:\windows\system32, et-cetera. i can
click ok a hundred times, but they keep popping up. is it
possible that something else is going wrong?

regards,

rick
 
i would also like to mention that when i move the error
message and try logging in, i get the follwoing error:

windows cant load temp users profile - insufficient sys
resources. then i get

windows cant load the users profile logged in as default.
then it says the cause is insufficient system resources.

then i get an error box with nothing in it except is big
red x and an "ok" button.

i just now got a message that said it tried loading my
profile to the registry but it was not in the proper
format. this is the first time i have seen this message.

i appreciate any and all help

regards

rick
 
Replace the c:\windows\system32\config\system through
Recover console
Off thetop of my head... copy it from
c:\windows\repair\system
There should be an article about this on MS's site :)
Goood luck
 
Rick,

If it is any solace to you, the same problem just happened to me. I
must have
been lucky because I was able to come up in safe mode and turn the
"large system cache" setting off. I found this URL from ATI to be
interesting:

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4217.html

To note, I have not tried out what ATI suggests. I would rather have
Microsoft "own up to it". IMHO, I don't think that any setting should
ever render an operating system completely disabled.

Good luck,
RS
 
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