WIN XP PRO REPAIR FROZEN at 2 MIN...what to do?

[Guest]

****I posted 2 days ago and am still having a problem. I've had the problem
for about a week now****Below is the history of the problem and the
information on my system****

My OEM version says this on the CD:
"For distribution with a new PC only. For product support, contact
the manufacturer of your PC."

it also says......

"Includes Service Pack 2 Version 2002 (C) 2004
Microsoft Corp."


Again, this is a CD for Windows XP Professional.


System:

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

Computer:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
2.09 GHz, 512 MB of RAM


I use nVidia chipsets.
I have the ABIT NF7-S motherboard.
I use 2 IDE hard drives (150GB and 250GB)
Single partition in the NTFS format.
I have an ATI ALL IN WONDER 9700 PRO (graphics card)


I think that should cover most of what you need to know. Let me know
if I missed anything. Also, I installed Windows XP PRO (the same install CD
i'm using now) with only my 250 GB drive hooked up. When I was running
repair, the 150 GB drive was hooked up as well. Would unattaching that do
anything?

Again, the problem is that the status bar for the finalization of
repairing is stuck with 2 minutes saying SAVING SETTINGS. I waited 4 hours, 5
hours, and 8.5 hours....3 different times. I wasn't sure if it might have
needed a while to save settings or what. I figure that it's some sort of
problem somewhere.

--------------------------------------
I received a recommendation from Michael Stevens and someone else to unplug
everything except my monitor keyboard and mouse. I did that and the problem
still persisted. I tried disconnecting my 2nd hard drive (the SLAVE), but the
system wouldn't go past the opening loading screen. The fact that the drive
was not connected caused a problem detecting with IDE, so I was only able to
retry the REPAIR install with both drives.

ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS??!!

Thanks for all your help and concern.

-Mike

 

[da_test]

****I posted 2 days ago and am still having a problem. I've had the problem
for about a week now****Below is the history of the problem and the
information on my system****

My OEM version says this on the CD:
"For distribution with a new PC only. For product support, contact
the manufacturer of your PC."

it also says......

"Includes Service Pack 2 Version 2002 (C) 2004
Microsoft Corp."


Again, this is a CD for Windows XP Professional.


System:

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

Computer:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
2.09 GHz, 512 MB of RAM


I use nVidia chipsets.
I have the ABIT NF7-S motherboard.
I use 2 IDE hard drives (150GB and 250GB)
Single partition in the NTFS format.
I have an ATI ALL IN WONDER 9700 PRO (graphics card)


I think that should cover most of what you need to know. Let me know
if I missed anything. Also, I installed Windows XP PRO (the same install CD
i'm using now) with only my 250 GB drive hooked up. When I was running
repair, the 150 GB drive was hooked up as well. Would unattaching that do
anything?

Again, the problem is that the status bar for the finalization of
repairing is stuck with 2 minutes saying SAVING SETTINGS. I waited 4 hours, 5
hours, and 8.5 hours....3 different times. I wasn't sure if it might have
needed a while to save settings or what. I figure that it's some sort of
problem somewhere.

--------------------------------------
I received a recommendation from Michael Stevens and someone else to unplug
everything except my monitor keyboard and mouse. I did that and the problem
still persisted. I tried disconnecting my 2nd hard drive (the SLAVE), but the
system wouldn't go past the opening loading screen. The fact that the drive
was not connected caused a problem detecting with IDE, so I was only able to
retry the REPAIR install with both drives.

ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS??!!

Thanks for all your help and concern.

-Mike

have you tried chkdsk /f from the recovery console?

Dave

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Try disconnecting the second drive. Ensure drive 1 is set as Primary Master
and identified as such by the BIOS. Boot with the XP CD and select the
option to Repair with Recovery Console. After accessing the Recovery Console
at the command prompt type the following and press Enter Key

DISKPART

use DISKPART to delete all partitions found. When finished type EXIT ad
press Enter key. The computer will reboot and the XP CD should run setup
again. This time select the option to Install Windows. Follow the process to
do a clean install. Hopefully that will work for you. If you run into the
same trouble you obviously have some hardware issue. It could well be a bad
drive or flaky RAM.

 

[Guest]

Problem is......I don't really want to do a clean install. I have a lot of
important data that I don't want to lose.

Since I chose the repair option on the install cd after choosing install
then choosing R for REPAIR instead of INSTALL......and since it's freezing at
2 min, everytime i restart my computer, it goes back to finalizing the repair
installation. Is there a way to stop this? If i take out the install CD and
try to run the system, will that do anything? I tried using the recovery
console, and I tried a CHKDSK before as well.