XP reboots after login screen

[bart.pellens]

I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the
login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot
into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option.
Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please
describe which steps I should follow to repair XP?

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the
login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot
into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option.
Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please
describe which steps I should follow to repair XP?

"How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done.

 

[RA]

"How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done.

I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take
ages to configure all installed software again.
There must be a more simple way to repair XP, it is almost funny that
I should reinstall an entire OS because of a failing driver or
corrupted registry entry. A boot with "last known good configuration"
is working so isn't it possible to copy this configuration and boot
with it the "normal" way?

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take
ages to configure all installed software again.

Why don't you read the posted article.
in-place upgrade = repair installation
Good luck.

 

[Alias]

I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take
ages to configure all installed software again.

That's not what Detlev suggested.

There must be a more simple way to repair XP, it is almost funny that
I should reinstall an entire OS because of a failing driver or
corrupted registry entry. A boot with "last known good configuration"
is working so isn't it possible to copy this configuration and boot
with it the "normal" way?

A repair install shouldn't affect your data or any of your installed
programs. It will remove the updates you got from Windows Updates.
Please read the link Detlev gave you on how to do it.

 

[Ken Blake]

"How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when
done.

Let me add to Detlev's good advice that, unless you have some very special
and unusual need, using ramdrive software within Windows is almost always
counterproductive and will hurt your performance. How do you intend to use
it?

 

[RA]

Let me add to Detlev's good advice that, unless you have some very special
and unusual need, using ramdrive software within Windows is almost always
counterproductive and will hurt your performance. How do you intend to use
it?

Thank you all for the help.

I was able to "solve" the issue by booting with the "last known good
configuration" and disabling all the devices with a problem in the
device manager (by using show hidden devices). Turns out it was the
Ram driver device that was causing the issue.

Unfortunately I'm unable to uninstall this driver, every time I
uninstall the driver I'm asked to reboot XP and after reboot XP just
keeps on rebooting by itself. Something is going wrong with the
uninstallation of the driver...

Ken Blake : I would like to use a RAM drive to speed up the caching of
a game. The game currently caches lots of files on the hard-disk and I
assumed it would go faster with a RAM-drive.

 

[Ken Blake]

On 27 aug, 16:45, "Ken Blake" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Ken Blake : I would like to use a RAM drive to speed up the caching of
a game. The game currently caches lots of files on the hard-disk and I
assumed it would go faster with a RAM-drive.

You can try it, but unless you have lots more RAM than you need, my guess is
that it will probably go *slower*. You may make that caching faster, but you
do so by removing RAM from Windows's use. The result is normally extra
paging, which makes everything slower.