Can't boot safe mode

[Guest]

Dell Latitude upgraded from NT to XP pro about 3 months ago. Has been working ok (trouble with wireless network support but that's for a different post)...

in the past week, intermittent hanging while doing various task (nothing special, yahoo IM, outlook email, etc) then blue screen of death, auto reboot. Tonight, tried to boot in Safe mode then "use last known good..."...reboots, shows dos screen with a laundry list of driver names, looks like it's hanging, then finally gets to a login screen but is frozen.

Now it boots to safe mode XP but keyboard & eraser mouse & touchpad are frozen. hard reboot gave "Checking file system c: ...this type of file system is FAT32" ...file system check on drive C, then either hangs at x% complete, or gives a couple of errors as: Size of documents/settings/username/ntuser.dat.log not valid, just now it gave bad links in cluster x... then booted to the XP login screen...

any thoughts are greatly appreciated - thanks in advance

 

[Ross Durie]

Hard drive needs replacing.

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Ross

Dell Latitude upgraded from NT to XP pro about 3 months ago. Has been

working ok (trouble with wireless network support but that's for a different
post)...

in the past week, intermittent hanging while doing various task (nothing

special, yahoo IM, outlook email, etc) then blue screen of death, auto
reboot. Tonight, tried to boot in Safe mode then "use last known
good..."...reboots, shows dos screen with a laundry list of driver names,
looks like it's hanging, then finally gets to a login screen but is frozen.

Now it boots to safe mode XP but keyboard & eraser mouse & touchpad are

frozen. hard reboot gave "Checking file system c: ...this type of file
system is FAT32" ...file system check on drive C, then either hangs at x%
complete, or gives a couple of errors as: Size of
documents/settings/username/ntuser.dat.log not valid, just now it gave bad
links in cluster x... then booted to the XP login screen...

 

[Kelly]

Do some reading here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ntuser.dat.log+not+valid&btnG=Google+Search

and here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...earch&meta=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.*