I just backed up my hard drive and restore it in a new hard drive. I can not
boot. When I try to boot I can see the window XP screen with the big logo,
but the computer will go back to the black booting screen and then I can see
the Window XP logo Screen back again in some kind of a loop.
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Thanks.
Allen

boot with the xp install cd and perform a repair install

"Allen" wrote:

> I just backed up my hard drive and restore it in a new hard drive. I can not
> boot. When I try to boot I can see the window XP screen with the big logo,
> but the computer will go back to the black booting screen and then I can see
> the Window XP logo Screen back again in some kind of a loop.
> --
> Thanks.
> Allen

"Allen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I just backed up my hard drive and restore it in a new hard drive. I can
not
> boot. When I try to boot I can see the window XP screen with the big
logo,
> but the computer will go back to the black booting screen and then I can
see
> the Window XP logo Screen back again in some kind of a loop.
> --
> Thanks.
> Allen

When you moved to the new disk, Windows got confused about
its system drive letter. Rather than booting off drive C: it is now
booting off drive D: or E:. This causes the looping phenomenon
you observe. You must now set the system drive letter back to C:.

The fix depends on your setup:
- Is the old disk still operative?
- Ist the machine networked?
- Do you have access to another WinXP/2000 PC?