No more logon in XP... Panicking.

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Yannick

After having done a hard drive switch, which i will further describe later,
i have this following problem. Windows XP Pro boots no problem, but when it
arrives to the logon screen, where i should be able to click on my username
to enter a password, there are *no* user icons to click! All I get is a XP
logo in the middle of a blue screen (but not THE blue screen). It is in the
normal resolution i should get under windows. I've tried pressing
ALT-CTRL-DEL, CTRL-ESC, ESC, SPACE, WINDOWS, ALT-TAB, nothing works. There
is nothing to click on the screen, but the mouse works. I can also ping my
computer from my LAN, but no services are launched.
I'm DESPERATE for an idea! I'd really like no having to reinstall
everything...
I tried booting failsafe, or with the last known working configuration,
nothing does the trick.
I tried fixing from the CD, with FIXBOOT, but that didn't change anything.
I'm afraid of doing a FIXMBR as I'm not sure exactly what the will do to my
partitions. If anyone could confirm what that command does, i'd be thankful.
Thanks a bunch
Yannick

Stupid hard drive switch i did:
I switched my slave second hard drive with a friend's, before booting it.
After that I tried booting my drive. As long as his drive was in, I got an
error message just before the logon screen, (SAS Window, with the following
error code: 0x80000004 (No such interface supported)). As soon as I removed
his hard drive, I got the error described above, wether my slave hard drive
was back in or not.
 
I am having the same problem, but with sata drive, did you figure it out yet, let me know, urgent,

----- Yannick wrote: -----

After having done a hard drive switch, which i will further describe later,
i have this following problem. Windows XP Pro boots no problem, but when it
arrives to the logon screen, where i should be able to click on my username
to enter a password, there are *no* user icons to click! All I get is a XP
logo in the middle of a blue screen (but not THE blue screen). It is in the
normal resolution i should get under windows. I've tried pressing
ALT-CTRL-DEL, CTRL-ESC, ESC, SPACE, WINDOWS, ALT-TAB, nothing works. There
is nothing to click on the screen, but the mouse works. I can also ping my
computer from my LAN, but no services are launched.
I'm DESPERATE for an idea! I'd really like no having to reinstall
everything...
I tried booting failsafe, or with the last known working configuration,
nothing does the trick.
I tried fixing from the CD, with FIXBOOT, but that didn't change anything.
I'm afraid of doing a FIXMBR as I'm not sure exactly what the will do to my
partitions. If anyone could confirm what that command does, i'd be thankful.
Thanks a bunch
Yannick

Stupid hard drive switch i did:
I switched my slave second hard drive with a friend's, before booting it.
After that I tried booting my drive. As long as his drive was in, I got an
error message just before the logon screen, (SAS Window, with the following
error code: 0x80000004 (No such interface supported)). As soon as I removed
his hard drive, I got the error described above, wether my slave hard drive
was back in or not.
 
Same thing has happened to me except that there was no hard drive
switch. I recently added an iomega zip drive to my notebook and after
restarting with it connected I cannot login. Sorry this isn't a
fix...just letting you know, I share your pain.

Arch
 
You will need to do a repair install. Change your bios to boot from the CD
insert the XP disk & follow the setup to carry out a repair on your current
windows installation.
You can't change basic hardware with XP and expect it to run without a
repair, it is probably trying to run the new disk using the old drivers.

Neil
 
Well actually, I did try booting from the cd and doing the repair thing, but
there are no useful tools there... I did FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and pretty much
tried everything there was available but no success. However, concerning
your theory, i wasn't clear: i am back to my *old* configuration, the one
which used to work, and it won't boot. and the only thing i ever changed was
the SLAVE disk, not my master, XP, disk... so it should not have any
problems, or at least not the kind i am having now. Plus which, it has the
same problem even with NO slave disk in the computer...
But thanks for the idea... and if you knew how to get the disk the CD asks
for when it boots to do the fix (something like a rescue disk or so), i
would be grateful, i am thinking that might do the trrick but have no idea
where to get that disk form.
thanks!
yannick
 
Actually I did that last night and it did work... almost... Except it
decided to rename my C: drive to D:. and when i tried to correct that, i
messed everything up. Again. But that should have done the trick. So thanks!
Anyways, now i won't be able to avoid it, i'll have to do a fresh install.
too bad!
 
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