System instability after updates, but possibly present before.

[Guest]

Just last week I downloaded and installed the three first updates presented
to me after SP2, everything had run smoothly until then. However, the
customary restart would not load windows and instead would go to a blue
screen displaying "Fatal System Error" just after the screen that says
Windows XP and has the 3 green vertical bars going across a loading bar over
and over. After much deliberation on what to do I decided the best idea was
to reinstall the OS. After several hours of updating and reupdating thinking
I had fixed the problem I finally arrived to the three that caused a problem
last time. Once again a problem arose after/during the restart only this
time the system proceeded to just restart over and over again before arriving
to the log on page. I am currently on the third reinstallation of Windows
XP. Someone please help me!!! After the second OS reinstallation and after
the third as well (but before I have time to update to service pack2) a
windows pop up has told me that I am missing
C:\WINDOWS\servicepackfiles\i386/controls.man I have no idea if this has to
do with anything because the problem still does not arrise until after the
installation of the first few updates after SP2. Any and all help would be
appreciated very much, because much of my life is located on this hard drive
and I would hate to have to reformat.

 

[Guest]

Try after SP2,go to run,type:cmd In cmd type:CHKDSK C: /F Agree to restart,
then type:EXIT Restart computer.After the updates are installed,on reboot,
boot to xp cd,select,recovery,press enter for password,then type:CHKDSK C: /p
When its thru,press the up arrow,then enter,repeat,this runs CHKDSK 3 X,then
type:EXIT Remove xp cd,let xp restart.

 

[Guest]

andrew e, the same exact thing happened to me. i installed spk2 from the cd &
everything went through smooth as silk for about a month or so until i saw in
my system tray there were updates to install, soooo, of course trusting
microsoft i installed them. what a nightmare!!!. it kept going to restart
over & over & over. it wouldn't start in safe mode or go to last good
configuration, after gateway had me try that i had no choice but to reinstall
my operating system. i lost my photos & what not. this happened about a week
or so ago. i don't understand how microsoft can send you updates to install
only to render your computer useless. but yet in this forum i go to people
said they did the updates & everything was a ok. i wonder what happened to
us???. just to let you know your not alone. not that that's any comfort.
happy holidays. btw, does anyone have any answers to this. tia goldy

 

[JD]

andrew e, the same exact thing happened to me. i installed spk2 from the
cd &
everything went through smooth as silk for about a month or so until i saw
in
my system tray there were updates to install, soooo, of course trusting
microsoft i installed them. what a nightmare!!!. it kept going to restart
over & over & over. it wouldn't start in safe mode or go to last good
configuration, after gateway had me try that i had no choice but to
reinstall
my operating system. i lost my photos & what not. this happened about a
week
or so ago. i don't understand how microsoft can send you updates to
install
only to render your computer useless. but yet in this forum i go to people
said they did the updates & everything was a ok. i wonder what happened to
us???. just to let you know your not alone. not that that's any comfort.
happy holidays. btw, does anyone have any answers to this. tia goldy

If windows XP or other earlier version has an issue that prevents it booting
then there is no reason why you should lose any data from the drive. All you
need to do is boot the system with a CD like knoppix, which is a Debian
Linux variant which boots from the CD and will read but not write to the
hard drive unless you change the default permisions.

You can then read the hard drive and copy any files that you require over to
a USB flash drive or burn them onto a CD the machine has a CD burner. After
you have saved any data that you have not backed up you can then proceed to
repair the installation or if that fails FDISK and reinstall.

I am not a penguin hugger but find it useful to simply get around the
occasional issue that could other wise be painful. I also lost photos a few
years ago after I trashed a partition table and I now try and back up those
irreplaceable items.


HTH

JD