Windows XP boot problem - after splash before login

phuschnickens

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

phuschnickens

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

primesuspect

One day, come here and say "hi" and don't ask an obscure tech question

Just do it. I dare you.

phuschnickens

primesuspect wrote:

One day, come here and say "hi" and don't ask an obscure tech question

Just do it. I dare you.

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?

Thrax

It means the battery is going dead.

phuschnickens

Thrax wrote:

It means the battery is going dead.

am i not getting your joke

or did you not get mine?

Thrax

We're meeting in the middle.

phuschnickens

perfect :chuckle