I cloned my WinXP disk with Maxtor Maxblast. I have used
this before successfully. I then plugged in the clone disk
to same PC instead of original disk. It gets as far as
the Windows XP logo on light-blue background with dark-blue
bars at top and bottom. The mouse moves cursor, but hard
disk light is not on. Also, it does not respond to
ctrl-alt-del
If I boot in safe mode, it also stops at XP logo....
any ideas?
I had a situation like that for weeks, months I think. (It started 2
months after installing XP and I used win98 during that time.
)
I had no idea what started it, and didn't know the techniques ot here
here have probably suggesteddd. One day, I got busy with something
and let it sit at the stage you describe (I think it was just that
stage) for a half hour while I did things, and finally it started, but
everything was verrrry slow then too. I went into msconfig and
disabled every startup program and every service, and after that it
started normally quickly.
The usual instructions are to re-enable each thing one at a time, but
that would take forever. Do it binarily (word?). I re-enable about
15 or 20% of the things at once, maybe 20 things out of 100, and if
that were to mess things up, I re-disable about half of things I just
re-enabled You must keep a good record of which items were enabled
the first time, which the second, which when it messed you up again,
which were disabled again, etc. Or you'll run around in circles.
But if you do that, instead of 100 restarts to decide which service or
startup program is messing you up, you'll only need (log2 of 100), log
to the base 2 of 100. That is, the exponent of 2 that is as much or
more than 100, which is 7. Well, that's if you split them in half.
Splitting them in fourths or fifths on the first round and in thirds
on later rounds changes the number up a little bit, maybe 9.
Oh, yeah, recloning is probably the easiest thing here, but I saw your
symptom and maybe the advice will help someone some other time if not
now.
