Start up doesnt Start up...

[Guest]

When I start my laptop, it appears to load Windows XP; It gets to the blue
screen where it says "Windows is starting now"... The next screen should be
the screen to access various accounts... But it never gets there...

The only way to access my laptop is to insert the windows disk, click to
reload windows, and then repair windows... Once this was done, I instantly
ran checks for viruses, adware, and spyware... All of which came back fine...
I went through msconfig and made sure there was nothing starting up with the
computer... I can't figure out what I am missing that it would get stuck at
this point over and over, no matter what I do while it is running... Is there
some other setting I can easily check?

Also, in msconfig- my boot.ini is set for:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin

Is that the proper setting?

My laptop is currently a month out of its warranty, so contacting the
manufacture is out of the question as frankly I can't afford it... And
running the recovery disk each time I need to use it is impractical; And
reloading windows is not something I'd like to have to do as I have a lot of
things on my laptop that I'd rather not lose nor can it all be burned to
disks and still be functional {trust me, I have tried in the past...}

 

[Guest]

You have to repair install every time you want to use your computer?

When it is up, can't you copy personal data to removable media?

then do a complete reinstall instead of a Repair install?

 

[Guest]

Each time my laptop restarts, it requires a repair to get beyond the blue
"Windows is Loading Now" screen... The only negative about copying each thing
to removable data would be that I use my laptop for work... And if a file
were to transefer over incomplete or with an error, it would be a huge amount
of work lost... But I had a feeling that was going to be the answer I
received... Thank you for your assistance...