Windows XP boot problem - after splash before login

phuschnickensphuschnickens Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
edited October 2008 in Nerdery
My mistake was using partition magic. When the computer gets past the XP splash screen it immediately tries to complete a function requested by partition magic (setting a certain partition active)... the process fails and then the computer locks up... only intervention is to pull the a/c plug. I tried looking at the boot.ini through recovery console. It doesn't look like that is where I can stop partition magic from trying to run this process.

How do I simply set my computer back to the normal boot??? which file has been edited by partition magic?

p.s. the active partition stuff i was doing has nothing to do with my root drive.

having a bad day

thanks

phu

Comments

  • phuschnickensphuschnickens Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
    edited October 2008
    grrrrrrrrrrrrr rar.... i don't know what exactly worked. I booted into BartPE trying to find a solution. looked for a specific regkey in regedit. then rebooted b/c i didn't find what i was looking for. upon reboot i pressed F8 and selected "last known good config that worked"... then it did the chkdsk thing it always does and went into windows without a problemo.

    success

    phu
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    One day, come here and say "hi" and don't ask an obscure tech question :p

    Just do it. I dare you. :D
  • phuschnickensphuschnickens Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
    edited October 2008
    primesuspect wrote:
    One day, come here and say "hi" and don't ask an obscure tech question :p

    Just do it. I dare you. :D

    i did that once... you should've seen what happened. it was nutzzzzzz


    oh, by the way... i've got another question:

    my wireless mouse usually has a green light when charging... no light when being used... i haven't charged it in two days and have been using it for the last 8 hours straight...

    what does the blinking red light mean that it has now????? :confused2

    by the way... where do i just say hi?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    It means the battery is going dead.
  • phuschnickensphuschnickens Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
    edited October 2008
    Thrax wrote:
    It means the battery is going dead.

    am i not getting your joke

    or did you not get mine?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    We're meeting in the middle. ;)
  • phuschnickensphuschnickens Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
    edited October 2008
    perfect :chuckle
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