July 28, 200818 yr I removed my 2nd hard drive from my computer and rebooted the computer. I then got a list of errors (such as ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt, etc... ) which I fixed in DOS and rebooted after each fix. Now when I try to boot, I get as far as the Windows XP logo screen with the windows "flag" and 4 colors and the blue "progress bar" underneath (the one where the blue bars move from left to right) and then it just hangs indefinitely. I have to manually turn the power off and turn the machine back on.I can boot in SAFE MODE no problem. When it is loading the drivers, it stops at "agp440.sys"In safe mode, I disabled the display driver and rebooted. Same problem. No change. Still hangs.I went back and edited the boot.ini file with "/sos" to see what happens. I get a blue screen with two navy bars top and bottom and medium blue in middle in which the following text is printed:"Microsoft Windows Version 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2) 1 System Processor [1024 MB Memory] Multiprocessor Kernel"And that's it... it just HANGS there....I've been trying to fix this for the last 7 hours and I'm at wits end. Anybody have any idea what's happening and how I can fix this?Thanks very much!
July 28, 200818 yr Back in safe mode in device manager click on view -> show hidden devices and make sure nothing else graphics card related is lurking. Other than this i would say that you need to remove the boot start driver from the registry that is causing the problem. I cant remember where they are i think it is HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services but double check first . Export a backup of it and delete it and see what happens.Good luck
July 28, 200818 yr Author Well, I solved the problem (indirectly). After spending an entire day trying different fixes, including chkdsk /r and even running my restore image program from DOS, nothing worked so I ended up disconnecting the C: drive and connecting a spare hard drive as Master on which I did a fresh install of XP, then I reconnected the corrupted "C:" drive as Slave and ran the restore program from the "Master" drive in Windows (not DOS) and then switched the C: drive back to Master, rebooted and everything was back to normal.I have NO idea what happened but this solution worked, especially since I had just created a backup image a week ago.When all else fails... do a restore. If this were to happen again, I would just skip the whole repair and just do a restore. Less of a headache!
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