hello I did my windows cd, booted, installed...Everything went fine. However, sometimes I can't log into Windows. The computer starts, and when it comes to the screen where you have that bar at the bottom going, it stays there and doesn't want to move. The only way I could log into Windows is to go into safe mode, run a program for fixing registry and then it logs...Any idea??? I have SATA drives, if it makes any difference,

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hello I did my windows cd, booted, installed...Everything went fine. However, sometimes I can't log into Windows. The computer starts, and when it comes to the screen where you have that bar at the bottom going, it stays there and doesn't want to move. The only way I could log into Windows is to go into safe mode, run a program for fixing registry and then it logs...Any idea??? I have SATA drives, if it makes any difference,

1. Go to my computer.

2. highlight c: and right click c: and it will bring you a list of menu.

3. Go to properties.

4. Click tools tab bar.

5. click check now at error checking.

6 click scan for and attempt recovery bad sectors. and automatically fix file system errors.

7. click start after finish, restart windows.

May be the SATA controller, or another device driver. Don't throw out any old versions until you've located the most stable ones for your hardware. Device Manager may help resolve problems & conflicts. CD burner quality, burn speed or media may affect driver integrity as well.