-=PCTechTalk=- Re: XP Musical boot failure

  • From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:11:17 -0400

It may have messed with permissions.  If that's the case, a restore from 
image will fix it.

Peace,
Gman

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 1:03 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- XP Musical boot failure


>
> Restarted from Vista to XP Pro
> Boot was very very S  L   O   W
> Finally reached the Blue XP splash screen
> Finally reached the point where it plays the music.
>
> This time it played it over and over and over and over ad infinitum 
> nauseum
>
> Previous to this, I had copied everything from my data drive to a
> separate drive and then copied it back.  I thought my XP was a clean
> install without the tweaks to put stuff on the data drive, but it is
> possible that I was wrong.  Would a simple copy off and then copy back
> screw up the boot?  Everything went back to the same folder as it was
> before the copy.
>
> MY first step to fix it will be to simply restore the data drive from
> the latest ATI image I have.  If that doesn't work, I restore XP from
> the latest image.  If that doesn't work I'll go to the earliest XP image
> and start all over again.  Or maybe just abandon XP and the dual boot.
>
> Don 

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