XP Boot Freeze with even Safe Mode

[Benjamin]

My computer started freezing after the XP loading
screen. It would do the loading screen, then blank out
for eternity. Normally it blanks for like a second and
loads the desktop...but now no desktop comes up.

I thought no big deal at first, so I rebooted trying to
go in using Safe Mode (all of them). It will start
booting all the drivers and then hang (not sure if it's
the last driver or not...but the last one is
atisgkaf.sys). Now I'm like "Hmm...". So I unplug
everything except bare neccessities. No avail.

I'm still not bum'ed out yet...so I pull out the XP disk
and start up from there. I go into Restore Console and
start looking around. I ended up copying over ntlde and
ntdetect.com because some website said to if you're
having boot problems. No luck. So then I fixboot. No
luck. So then I fixmbr. Grr...no luck. Nothing is
working!!

I really would like some files off the hard drive. I
could really use any advice on how to grab the files so I
can just reformat and start new which is no problem. Or
a way to get the system back up and running so I can make
a backup cd of some files I really should keep. I would
just put the hard drive in another machine and copy that
way...but unforunately this is a laptop I'm having
problems with.

Thanks in advance for your genious!!

 

[Benjamin Leiby]

Woot!! My system is back up and running. The website
that helped me with my problem is this:

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/cw_boo
t_toot.htm

Seems if you are having any type of boot problem...refer
to this site and it should get you back up and running.
It basically wipes out all your current boot files (one
of which is probably corrupt) and help your load a
snapshot of an older restore file. Restore files are
made fairly often so you don't really lose anything going
back to them.

This really helps if you think your only option is a
reinstall. Saves lots of headaches!!

Enjoy!