USB 2.0 Installation Causes XP to Crash

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After installing a D-Link USB 2.0 PCI adapter in my computer, and restarting, my PC opened my desktop and showed its wallpaper, but nothing else. No icons, no taskbar, nothing. I have restarted the computer several times, and nothing has worked so far. I've even attempted to do a Windows Repair from my boot disk - but I get nowhere that some of the help pages online have advertised. They say that after selecting "R" to repair, a new screen will come up to select "what" XP version to repair. I've never gotten that screen - I end up moving to a black DOS screen that asks me which Windows component I'd like to load:

1. C:/WINDOWS

When I select that, it asks me for an administrator password. I'll admit to being ignorant here, I have no clue what that password is. All I can do from that prompt is to hit HELP, and it brings up the master list of commands. But it never ever gave me the ability to REPAIR my Windows XP. Is my only option here to reboot completely? I have an external hard-drive that I've backed all my files up on (excluding the WINDOWS folder), but other than that, I'm at a loss.

It seems like such a pain to do this over a simple hardware installation, and I am inside of Windows right now, able to load IEXPLORE.EXE from the Task Manager to get online and type this. I just don't have any desktop icons or start menu or taskbar or anything along those lines.

If anyone has any assistance to provide in this matter, I would appreciate it. Thank You.

Chris Thomas
Nashville, TN
 
Hi Chris,

I think what's actually happening is that you are getting to the
Recovery Console instead of repairing Windows. In the first blue
screen that comes up, don't press R, just press enter, and when it
detects your Windows installation it will offer to repair it.

Detailed info here:

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck
 
That's what I did to bring up the C:/WINDOWS prompt, from which I could hit HELP, etc. Nothing else occured after hitting enter. I just find it odd that the pictures shown in this website on how to do an XP Repair never show up for me

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/rep...s XP by Installing Over top of Existing Setup

There are screenshots under the "In Place Install" section - and I don't get the License Agreement, or the bottom half of Screen #3 that shows the box reading C:\WINDOWS "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" (mine is the HOME version however). I get the top half that asks me to press "R," to repair, but when that's entered, THAT'S when it loads and brings up the black screen that ends up at the prompt
 
dont even worry about the recovery console there

First try restoring to a previous dat

1. start your compute
2. keep tapping F8 about once a second as the computer boots u
3. choose "Safemode" from the boot options menu when and If it appear
note: dont freak out when you get the screen full of text, just wai
If the computer loads to safemod
4. when prompted with the window titled "desktop", choose option "NO" and the system restore will star
5. choose a bold date on the calendar that is prior to the problem and choose to restore to that tim
note: if there are no bold dates on the calendar then there are no restore dates, you will have to try something else, but if its there, just restore the sucker.
 
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