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Sean

Hey... I installed the recent update for Windows, from 1
November... since then, I can't get XP to boot
correctly... it hangs up before the login screen, and I
can only log into Windows in Safe mode... like I'm doing
now... anyone else getting that?

How does one fix it, short of uninstalling the update?
 
Sean said:
Hey... I installed the recent update for Windows, from 1
November... since then, I can't get XP to boot
correctly... it hangs up before the login screen, and I
can only log into Windows in Safe mode... like I'm doing
now... anyone else getting that?

How does one fix it, short of uninstalling the update?
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You nailed it -- uninstall the update. That's exactly what to do, if that's
what caused the problem. (It was probably a bad download or bad install, not
a problem with the update itself.) You can do this from Safe Mode.

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I have the same problem accept that I cannot even boot in
Safe Mode. I think that I might try booting from my CD
and running chkdsk to see if there is any corruption.
 
Okay, I did uninstall it from the Remove Programs
listing, as it was listed as being an actual update from
the 11th that downloaded, for Internet Explorer. Now,
under normal circumstances, I would simply just continue
on and plug away until I figure out the problem, but it's
not making sense now.

Here's exactly what happened:

For my birthday, I received a DVD-ROM, to which I
installed last night. The driver was immediately
installed by XP, which is fine, the BIOS recognizes it as
the secondary slave (Primary being my CD-ROM), and
rebooted... worked fine, recognized everything alright.

Then, I installed the program for watching DVDs that came
with it... installed fine... rebooted... Lastly, I
installed the update for Windows...

After that, freezing up before login screen, nothing
works except in Safe Mode. I uninstalled the DVD program
and the update, I believe, and still... nothing...
Tonight, I will be unplugging the cable for the CD-ROM
and DVD-ROM to see if it works at that point, and go from
there.

Would still like to see if anyone else has had a problem
similar to this recently... by similar, I mean almost
exactly, and what they did to fix it, if anything. I have
my OS CD as a last resort because I am leery on changing
some things on the C drive... I really hate doing it...
 
After that, freezing up before login screen, nothing
works except in Safe Mode. I uninstalled the DVD program
and the update, I believe, and still... nothing...
Tonight, I will be unplugging the cable for the CD-ROM
and DVD-ROM to see if it works at that point, and go from
there.

Would still like to see if anyone else has had a problem
similar to this recently... by similar, I mean almost
exactly, and what they did to fix it, if anything. I have
my OS CD as a last resort because I am leery on changing
some things on the C drive... I really hate doing it...
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Use System Restore to roll back to just before the whole thing started. That
will give you the cleanest "return to working state."

--
Jim Eshelman, MS-MVP Windows
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http://WinSupportCenter.com/

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-----Original Message-----
Hey... I installed the recent update for Windows, from 1
November... since then, I can't get XP to boot
correctly... it hangs up before the login screen, and I
can only log into Windows in Safe mode... like I'm doing
now... anyone else getting that?

How does one fix it, short of uninstalling the update?
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This procedure requires the WIN XP CD.

Install the Win XP CD in the CD drive.

Reboot.

When you get to the setup screen, make like you were doing
a fresh install and when you get to the "Select a
partition to install to" you need to select the
partition/drive that Win XP is ALREADY on, and click OK.

You will then be presented with a message along the lines
of "XP already detected on this partition, would you like
to repair?"

Click Yes/Ok to repair your XP without losing any data or
settings.
 
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