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Michael Moser
Hi, I am having a problem logging into XP:
I am in the progress of migrating to Win7. As a temporary solution I want to have a dual boot capability, i.e. I bought a larger HD, created two partitions on it, installed Win7 on the first partition, and then I used a disk-imager to copy my entire old XP disk 1:1 to the second partition. I then set things up so I can now choose between the two partitions using the Win7 boot manager. The choosing and booting works in principle fine.
But when I try to boot WinXP, I have the very strange effect, that the system boots and starts WinXP up fine up to the point where it presents the login screen. When I then enter my name and password it at first seems accepted, i.e. I get a "Loading you settings..." box but to my dismay only seconds later that dialog always turns into "Logging off..." (???!@#@$&!) at which point the system hangs for some long period. If I wait long enough (~5 minutes) it eventually returns to the login screen again. I also tried to login as Administator but that failed as well (the error message mumbled something about no domain server to verify my id which is complete nonsense, since the system wasn't ever part of any domain, so there is no server in the world that could verify anything here!).
What could cause this and why can't I not log into that copied/moved 1:1 Window XP installation? How can I fix this?
Michael
I am in the progress of migrating to Win7. As a temporary solution I want to have a dual boot capability, i.e. I bought a larger HD, created two partitions on it, installed Win7 on the first partition, and then I used a disk-imager to copy my entire old XP disk 1:1 to the second partition. I then set things up so I can now choose between the two partitions using the Win7 boot manager. The choosing and booting works in principle fine.
But when I try to boot WinXP, I have the very strange effect, that the system boots and starts WinXP up fine up to the point where it presents the login screen. When I then enter my name and password it at first seems accepted, i.e. I get a "Loading you settings..." box but to my dismay only seconds later that dialog always turns into "Logging off..." (???!@#@$&!) at which point the system hangs for some long period. If I wait long enough (~5 minutes) it eventually returns to the login screen again. I also tried to login as Administator but that failed as well (the error message mumbled something about no domain server to verify my id which is complete nonsense, since the system wasn't ever part of any domain, so there is no server in the world that could verify anything here!).
What could cause this and why can't I not log into that copied/moved 1:1 Window XP installation? How can I fix this?
Michael