5 min boot time.

[Guest]

I am running win XP pro on an AMD64 processor, with 1 gig of memory. I have
an 80 gig hd that has 60 gig of free space.

My computer worked great till 3 days ago when the system just crashed. I
reloaded winxp pro with a full format of the drive.

Now when I reboot the computer goes through the post just fine. Then the
screen goes black for about 30 - 60 seconds. Then I get a row of white bars
at the bottom of the screen and it slowly progresses to a solid bar in about
4 minutes. This appeares to be some type of harddrive issue because the hd
light is flashing.

After the bar goes away then the windows bootup screen appears and all
starts like normal.

My question is, what is that white progress bar and how can i do away with
this delay in booting.

Thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Click start/run or hit the winkey+r, type CMD and click ok. Type CHKDSK C:
/R and hit <enter>. You will not be able to dismount the drive as Windows is
running, use the option to schedule this to be done when the system reboots.
Then reboot, it may take quite some time for this tool to work but make sure
to allow it to run to completion. See if it helps.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

I did this and it did not make a change to the bootup process. Is this white
status bar across the bottom of the screen sometype of disk check. Maybe I
will try updating my network card driver.

It could be possible that my harddrive is about to go belly up.

thanks for your help.

Jeff