Most services don't start

[Guest]

I improperly posted this to the media center group earlier. Hope you guys
can help:

Having no luck finding solutions elsewhere for this one. Hope someone can
help. I'll provide the events leading up to the problem in hopes of helping
your diagnosis.


I spent the weekend trying to clone an existing XP installation on a 20G
partition to an 80G. It's an OEM XP Pro. I used the Sysprep tool and
followed the instructions at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/duplication.mspx

I did not perform the optional steps.


Cloning was performed with Ghost 2002.


Startup of the second disk led to the problem described in article 320279 at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320279

I repaired this.


Next problem was that this system has non-standard drive letter assignments
(systemroot is E, I have no idea why - boss' computer). The restart caused a
switch the C, breaking many things. I repeated the clone and 320279 fix, and
fixed this error before restarting the new clone by following the steps
outlined in article 223188 at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

This finally allowed a successful login.


Upon logging in, though (here's the main issue), many applications failed to
operate as expected. I've tracked the problem to *almost all* system
services not starting up automatically. There are perhaps only 4 that load
of the dozens listed. Msconfig shows that these should all start (all boxes
are checked, 2 or 3 are set as disabled). I can't provide a list at this
time since I'm not in front of the machine, but can get you one if needed.

If I manually start the services that msconfig has checked, the system seems
to work fine (so far). A reboot breaks it again. I can, though,
successfully log off and back on to another user and the services remain on.

Msconfig is NOT set for a normal start, nor have I tried that yet. There
are 2 disabled (fluff) items in the startup list, so it is at Selective.


So, why are my services not starting when they should be?

 

[Haggis]

I improperly posted this to the media center group earlier. Hope you guys
can help:

Having no luck finding solutions elsewhere for this one. Hope someone can
help. I'll provide the events leading up to the problem in hopes of
helping
your diagnosis.


I spent the weekend trying to clone an existing XP installation on a 20G
partition to an 80G. It's an OEM XP Pro. I used the Sysprep tool and
followed the instructions at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/duplication.mspx

I did not perform the optional steps.


Cloning was performed with Ghost 2002.


Startup of the second disk led to the problem described in article 320279
at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320279

I repaired this.


Next problem was that this system has non-standard drive letter
assignments
(systemroot is E, I have no idea why - boss' computer). The restart caused
a
switch the C, breaking many things. I repeated the clone and 320279 fix,
and
fixed this error before restarting the new clone by following the steps
outlined in article 223188 at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

This finally allowed a successful login.


Upon logging in, though (here's the main issue), many applications failed
to
operate as expected. I've tracked the problem to *almost all* system
services not starting up automatically. There are perhaps only 4 that load
of the dozens listed. Msconfig shows that these should all start (all
boxes
are checked, 2 or 3 are set as disabled). I can't provide a list at this
time since I'm not in front of the machine, but can get you one if needed.

If I manually start the services that msconfig has checked, the system
seems
to work fine (so far). A reboot breaks it again. I can, though,
successfully log off and back on to another user and the services remain
on.

Msconfig is NOT set for a normal start, nor have I tried that yet. There
are 2 disabled (fluff) items in the startup list, so it is at Selective.


So, why are my services not starting when they should be?

I think the drive letter reassignment is messing with the services not
starting

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

you will see your drives listed ... change current "C:" to another letter
(I use Z) the rename "E:" to "C:"

then cross your fingers and hope it solves the other problem :>

 

[Guest]

I'm running another backup on it right now (couldn't verify the last one), so
I can't give it a shot right now, but will look at that shortly. The only
response in the other group suggested the same thing, too.

I'm not seeing how this might fix the problem, though, since Windows did
this itself upon booting up after the image (well, after the article 320279
fix). It would seem like everything would *really* be messed up if the OS
pops up on a different systemroot than expected.

Thanks for the input, though. I will give this a shot, as soon as the
backup finishes.


By the way, I just remembered that I backed up the registry before the
sysprep. I wonder how big a can of worms I would open if I wrote that over
the current registry......

 

[Guest]

That didn't work. After login I was immediately prompted to activate, but it
hung up at the activation window without ever completely loading it.

While I'm restoring to the previous state, anyone have any more ideas? I'm
willing to experiment at this point.