XP Freezes in dual boot with Vista

[Newbie Paul]

Greetings Vista Gurus & Gurettes,
I have vista and xp on separate HD's in dual boot mode. Worked fine for
ages, could switch from one to the other with ease. Recently have found that
when I boot up in to XP it will remain usable for approx 3-5 mins and then
freeze absolutely solid leaving no opption but to power it down on thee
switch. Anyone one out there know why this is suddenly happening ???
Many thanks to any of you who happen across this and take the time to read
and maybe answer it.
Paul

 

[Malke]

Greetings Vista Gurus & Gurettes,
I have vista and xp on separate HD's in dual boot mode. Worked fine for
ages, could switch from one to the other with ease. Recently have found that
when I boot up in to XP it will remain usable for approx 3-5 mins and then
freeze absolutely solid leaving no opption but to power it down on thee
switch. Anyone one out there know why this is suddenly happening ???
Many thanks to any of you who happen across this and take the time to read
and maybe answer it.
Paul

Test the XP hard drive with a diagnostic utility from the drive mftr.
You will create a bootable CD with the file you downloaded. You will
need third-party burning software to do this such as Roxio, Nero, or the
free CDBurnerXP Pro.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Boot with the CD you made and do a thorough test of the drive. If it
fails any physical tests, replace it.


Malke

 

[jim]

Greetings Vista Gurus & Gurettes,
I have vista and xp on separate HD's in dual boot mode. Worked fine for
ages, could switch from one to the other with ease. Recently have found
that
when I boot up in to XP it will remain usable for approx 3-5 mins and then
freeze absolutely solid leaving no opption but to power it down on thee
switch. Anyone one out there know why this is suddenly happening ???
Many thanks to any of you who happen across this and take the time to read
and maybe answer it.
Paul

Its quite simple really.....Vista is trying to kill XP. It kills everything
it touches. XP is not immune to the destructive powers of Vista.

Seriously though, it sounds like a driver or DLL issue. So you have a
backup from a time where it worked well?

Does it freeze if you start in safe mode also?

Have you tried repairing the installation?

jim

 

[Newbie Paul]

Stays active in "Safe"mode, not sure were to go from there though, is there
some diagnostics that can be run from XP ... I really am a Newbie at this
problem solving game.

 

[Malke]

Stays active in "Safe"mode, not sure were to go from there though, is there
some diagnostics that can be run from XP ... I really am a Newbie at this
problem solving game.

I'm not sure what you mean by "stays active". If you mean you don't have
any problems in Safe Mode, then you can try clean-boot troubleshooting
to see if something running in the background is causing the issue.

How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796

Since you started the thread by saying that the drive freezes during
Chkdsk, I would really check its physical health per the way I already
described since that doesn't sound like a hardware issue, but you never
know until you start narrowing down the cause. You don't check hardware
like that from within an operating system. If you aren't skilled in
computer troubleshooting - and there is no shame in admitting this as we
all have our areas of expertise - take the machine to a local computer
shop. Don't use a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place; get
recommendations from family, friends, colleagues.


Malke

 

[Malke]

Malke wrote:

Oops - I mean to say this doesn't sound like a *software* issue. Sorry
about that.

I would really check its physical health per the way I already
described since that doesn't sound like a hardware issue,

Malke

 

[Newbie Paul]

Have scanned both drives with the manufacturers diagnostics, and both are
100% healthy, will be trying the clean boot next ... will post results as
soon as I know anything ... thanks for taking the time out to help