-=PCTechTalk=- Re: XP Musical boot failure

Hmmmmm

I restored the Data drive.   No Help

I restored the XP drive to same date as data drive restored to.  No help

I booted to Vista, opened EasyBCD and re-wrote the Vista MBR.  No Help.

Tried to boot to XP SAFE mode.  Hangs there also.

I 'm gonna go Google for some new curse words to try.  Anybody got any 
ideas before I find some?

Don



recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Maybe not.  I have not yet restored anything . . . . .
>
> 1. It appears, by looking at file/folder modified dates, that it is 
> possible that the data drive was used as the "install to" drive for both 
> Vista and XP since the last image was made.  I really don't think that 
> is the case with Vista though.
> 2. If the move and then move back messed up the XP boot why didn't it 
> mess up the Vista boot?  (I incorrectly said "copied" in my original 
> message)
> 3. Is there a way to be sure that item 1. is or is not the case?
> 4. If we assume permissions are the problem is there a way to fix them 
> without restoring from the backups? 
> 5. Acronis Disk Director Suite was installed on Vista "before".  ATI was 
> installed "after".  Disk Director Suite no longer appears in the 
> Start>All Programs>Acronis folder but it does launch when I click on DDS 
> in the Start MRU list of programs.  Is this related to the move/move 
> back?  Can it be fixed?  Easily?
> 6. Windows was, of course, not moved in this process.  How would 
> permissions get changed?  I would be more suspicious of registry entries 
> related to installed programs but am inclined to think that would not 
> stop windows from booting.  Instead I would expect it to open dialog 
> boxes and error messages when trying to launch any impacted programs.
> 7. I know that Windows updates locations on a file/folder move.  Vista 
> apparently updated fine (except for DDS?) since the move was done within 
> Vista.  Since XP was not launched, it had no way of knowing the 
> files/folders were moved.  However, I expected the move back to move 
> everything back to where it was since no folder or file locations were 
> changed between the move and the move back.  So how did XP get messed up?
> 8.  I can (and will, if necessary) restore the latest image of XP, 
> Vista, and Data drive.  I would rather avoid that if possible as some 
> work has been done since the last images were made. 
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
> Gman wrote:
>   
>> It may have messed with permissions.  If that's the case, a restore from 
>> image will fix it.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Gman
>>
>> http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php
>>
>> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>>
>> ----- 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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