Stall While Loading Windows

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Windows begins to load, I enter my password, then it stalls while "Loading
Personal Settings". It is not completely frozen as the status color bar
continues to scroll in the dialogue box. Same thing happens in Safe Mode
 
That status line you mention doesn't mean anything. It is like a gif. The image itself has that as part of its
construction. Yes I'd say the machine has stalled also referred to as a hang.

This is usually a result of a driver. Did you install something lately and have it ask you to reboot and then
have this issue? Maybe you can try to sign in with a different profile?
 
I don't think it is a driver issue as I have have not installed any new
hardware and the problem occurs even while trying to start safe mode. Also,
I can drag the actual dialogue box around the screen. Does this tell you
anything?
 
Yes it tells me the op sys is listening to Mouse events. Hmmm...can you use a different profile? Drivers do
not necessarily get installed by just adding hardware. .sys file are one type of file which can be installed
which access hardware. If Windows 2000 will not let the sys file direct access to the hardware you will get
this behavior. There ought to be a timeout though but if the sys was poorly written then yes it can hang
forever. This isn't the only explanation for trouble. It could be just some malware obtained off the Net that
is trying to load at boot and unable to. Maybe due to AV Software.

No Safe Mode or Normal access to the op sys puts us in a very tight bind. There is really not much we can
do except try the Recovery Console. That you get to from starting with the Widows 2000 CD-ROM in the
drive. Just don't try to reinstall over your existing ionstallation. We may need to but let's see what we can
do in the recovery console. Tell me if you can get to system32 with that. Then we will look for files of a
modified date close to when this issue started. If you can find substantial files (I know this is not very
descriptive - we are really looking for exe or dlls which have really weird names like ss8uly.dll and no mfg
info) move them out of system32.
 
First of all, thank you for your help.

Windows is set to automatically logon the administrator. Can I use a
different profile with this setting? I have made no receny changes to the
computer's settings prior to this problem. However, the computer lost power
last night and therefore did not shut down properly. The problem appeared at
my first boot attempt this morning.

I doubt the problem is related to malware as this computer does not have
internet access. There is also no anti-virus software on the computer. It
is in a closed, secluded environment.

I did try the emergency repair option on the 2000P CD, the automatic one,
not the console, to no avail. I can get into the recovery console and access
the windows installation.
 
In safe mode it still tries to automatically log in? If not try a different profile there.

It looks to me like you need to do a chkdsk. Can you do that in the Recovery Console? I'm not sure if I
understood you about getting into the Recovery Console.

Not being able to boot due to an incorrect shutdown imples disk trouble.
 
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