Freezing at XP logo screen

[Guest]

Recently, there was a power outage in my area and before the power went
completely out, it flashed around 5-6 times, the first few times my computer
came off and on with each flash. The next day i came down and after the
power had been restored and the computer had come back on, but it had been on
for at least a few hours and was still on the "XP is now loading" screen. I
turned it off and on again and let it try to boot up again but it still sat
there for hours on the loading screen. Does anyone know what is specifically
wrong with my computer? Is so, how can i fix it? I've tried booting in safe
mode but the code that pops up stops after a few seconds and doesn't move
again.

 

[Rock]

"N473"
wrote> Recently, there was a power outage in my area and before the power
went

completely out, it flashed around 5-6 times, the first few times my
computer
came off and on with each flash. The next day i came down and after the
power had been restored and the computer had come back on, but it had been
on
for at least a few hours and was still on the "XP is now loading" screen.
I
turned it off and on again and let it try to boot up again but it still
sat
there for hours on the loading screen. Does anyone know what is
specifically
wrong with my computer? Is so, how can i fix it? I've tried booting in
safe
mode but the code that pops up stops after a few seconds and doesn't move
again.

Ouch, systems should be disconnected from the power source when that happens
until the power problems settle down. This is also an example of how an UPS
can be very helpful.

At this point start with a full backup. Is all the data backed up? If not
do that first. Here are some ways to backup the data.

1. Take the drive out of the computer and install it as a slave drive in
another Windows XP or 2000 computer. It should read the drive ok, so you can
copy the data.

2. Create a bootable Bart's PE disk, boot from that, then copy the data to
external USB drive or flash drive.

3. Download a bootable Linux distro called Knoppix. Create a bootable CD
from that, boot from it, and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, or
if the computer has two CD drives, one of which is a burner, then use the
k3b burning program on the Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.

4. Take it to a competent computer tech to backup the data.

After the data is secure, boot the computer from the XP installation CD and
enter the recovery console. Take the first R for repair, enter the number
for the windows installation, normally this is 1, then the password for the
built in Administrator account. If this is XP Home it could be blank so
just hit enter.

At the command prompt run a chkdsk /r. It will take some time to run. When
it completes, take out the XP CD and reboot to see what happens. If that
doesn't fix it, then run a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I've never seen anything like this happen before now.The
storm came unexpectedly, as well as the last few times that the power flashed
off and on. The computer is set up with three HDs, one for system data like
everything for XP to run, the other two are for program data and downloaded
media, should i just concentrate on the system data hard drive?

 

[mikeyhsd]

again with the stupidity of your answers.

he said plainly the power flashed several times. so how is he supposed to unplug/turn things off.

also you RECOMMEND backing up the system.
pray tell how that is supposed to be accomplished when the computer will not boot.

and then telling some one who obviously has limited computer knowledge to remove hard drive and install in external case.

this is what happens when you make use of CANNED answers and make no effort to tailor to the situation.



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"N473"
wrote> Recently, there was a power outage in my area and before the power
went

completely out, it flashed around 5-6 times, the first few times my
computer
came off and on with each flash. The next day i came down and after the
power had been restored and the computer had come back on, but it had been
on
for at least a few hours and was still on the "XP is now loading" screen.
I
turned it off and on again and let it try to boot up again but it still
sat
there for hours on the loading screen. Does anyone know what is
specifically
wrong with my computer? Is so, how can i fix it? I've tried booting in
safe
mode but the code that pops up stops after a few seconds and doesn't move
again.

Ouch, systems should be disconnected from the power source when that happens
until the power problems settle down. This is also an example of how an UPS
can be very helpful.

At this point start with a full backup. Is all the data backed up? If not
do that first. Here are some ways to backup the data.

1. Take the drive out of the computer and install it as a slave drive in
another Windows XP or 2000 computer. It should read the drive ok, so you can
copy the data.

2. Create a bootable Bart's PE disk, boot from that, then copy the data to
external USB drive or flash drive.

3. Download a bootable Linux distro called Knoppix. Create a bootable CD
from that, boot from it, and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, or
if the computer has two CD drives, one of which is a burner, then use the
k3b burning program on the Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.

4. Take it to a competent computer tech to backup the data.

After the data is secure, boot the computer from the XP installation CD and
enter the recovery console. Take the first R for repair, enter the number
for the windows installation, normally this is 1, then the password for the
built in Administrator account. If this is XP Home it could be blank so
just hit enter.

At the command prompt run a chkdsk /r. It will take some time to run. When
it completes, take out the XP CD and reboot to see what happens. If that
doesn't fix it, then run a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[mikeyhsd]

with your lack of computer expertise, recommend you take the computer to a shop or locate a computer club in tour area.
check with libraries or schools for existence of computer club.

it maybe as simple as doing a repair install. or a full install.
but the ones directly helping you can tell which is best and be able to backup your data before hand.




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Recently, there was a power outage in my area and before the power went
completely out, it flashed around 5-6 times, the first few times my computer
came off and on with each flash. The next day i came down and after the
power had been restored and the computer had come back on, but it had been on
for at least a few hours and was still on the "XP is now loading" screen. I
turned it off and on again and let it try to boot up again but it still sat
there for hours on the loading screen. Does anyone know what is specifically
wrong with my computer? Is so, how can i fix it? I've tried booting in safe
mode but the code that pops up stops after a few seconds and doesn't move
again.

 

[Rock]

Thanks for the help. I've never seen anything like this happen before
now.The
storm came unexpectedly, as well as the last few times that the power
flashed
off and on. The computer is set up with three HDs, one for system data
like
everything for XP to run, the other two are for program data and
downloaded
media, should i just concentrate on the system data hard drive?

Yes start with the system drive. FYI I live in an area that doesn't have
frequent powerful storms that knock out power, but there are power glitches
from time to time. That happens everywhere. Over the past 24 weeks there
were 11 times the power went out for a time sufficiently long enough time
that the attached UPS kicked in. It's a good think to have on any system no
matter where you live.