XP Home Is Looping

[Melville High School]

XP Home Is Looping
Demension 26MWV21

Someone brought their PC for a tune up. Dell 2350 with XP home. It had an
error message similar to; 'Generic Host Process for win32 services has
encountered a problem ... for win32 services has encountered a problem and
needs to close

After restarting | Clicked | My Computer | C Drive | Properties | Tools |
Check Now | ticked both slections

This process took 2 times to complete but the last time it took forever and
1 day to complete and was OK.

Restarted. Now it loops into the 'Safe Mode, etc. menu'

Using the control arrows none of the 4 selections will boot up. It loops.

Thanks from New Orleans

 

[Singapore Computer Service]

Hello,

Switch on your computer and keep hitting F8 until you get a menu titled
"Windows Advanced Options Menu". If you see the XP loading progress bar, you
missed it and will have to try rebooting again.

If there is only one option in that menu, hit F8 again.

In this menu select 'Disable automatic restart on system failure', Enter,
Enter and you should be able to view the full blue screen error when it
occurs again. Post back the message here and we will be able to help you
better

Note: If there is no 'disable automatic restart..' option, select 'Start
Windows Normally' and *quickly* hit the F8 key for the correct menu to come
out
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[Patrick Keenan]

XP Home Is Looping
Demension 26MWV21

Someone brought their PC for a tune up. Dell 2350 with XP home. It had
an error message similar to; 'Generic Host Process for win32 services has
encountered a problem ... for win32 services has encountered a problem and
needs to close

After restarting | Clicked | My Computer | C Drive | Properties | Tools |
Check Now | ticked both slections

This process took 2 times to complete but the last time it took forever
and 1 day to complete and was OK.

Restarted. Now it loops into the 'Safe Mode, etc. menu'

Using the control arrows none of the 4 selections will boot up. It loops.

Thanks from New Orleans

Try this - attach the drive to another XP system, and delete the large file
in the root, pagefile.sys. Empty the recycle bin, put the drive back,
restart. You might have to interrupt the boot and restart a 2nd time, but
I have found that this sometimes fixes this kind of problem.

HTH
-pk

 

[db]

boot looping can
be resolved by
logging into the
recovery console
via an xp cd,

then run the commands:

chkdsk /p
fixboot



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[Melville High School]

This is the 1st time I have ever heard of this, ''Disable automatic restart
on system failure'"

It worked perfect. The error message was, "cannot mount volume.....

There was already an error message at each bootup about the 'smart hard
drive' having errors and needing replacing, so there goes another HD.

Thank you for the quick response, stop by and eat Gumbo when you are here in
New Orleans

 

[Melville High School]

Hey, PK, I want to test this theory on a HD. I have several HD's with XP
for testing, etc.

Thank you for the quick response, stop by and eat Gumbo when you are here in
New Orleans

 

[Melville High School]

Hi Ben,

I will test this procedure also before I swap the HD.

Thank you for the quick response, stop by and eat Gumbo when you are here in
New Orleans

 

[Singapore Computer Service]

Hello,

You most likely mean 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'

If so, see Microsoft's article to resolving this at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

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[Melville High School]

It worked perfect. It was the file system.

Thank you for the quick response,

stop by and eat Gumbo when you are here in New Orleans

 

[Singapore Computer Service]

Hello,

You're welcome. Thanks for posting back on how it went.

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