-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Problem with XP
- From: "John E." <eejohne@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:20:12 -0800 (PST)
Hi K,
You could try running checkdisk. Go to
Start/Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt and when the
box opens type CHKDSK \F It will give you a message
that it can't do it but can at reboot; type Y and
close the command prompt and restart your puter. If
this does or does not work let me know.
John E.
--- K <imjustnobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Surprise, Surprise, I know. Anyway, here's my
> problem. I have been running my computer with XP
> for about 3 weeks now, (I had it before for over a
> year so I am not new to using it.) But I have
> aquired a "quirk". Up till Tuesday everything
> worked fine, yesterday morning, when botting up, it
> hung up just before getting to the welcome screen
> (after the xp is loading screen). I had to do a
> cold boot 3x, before it loaded with no problems. Had
> the computer off all day. When I attempted to start
> it up last night, it did the same thing, this time
> taking many more boots before it loaded. I decided
> to do a restore back to Monday night. Although it
> was restored backed to before the problem started,
> it is still occuring.
>
>
>
> Any ideas, as what to do. Only thing I installed
> was the two latest security updates, both from
> february 13, I believe, oh and WinMedia update, to
> 9.0 which was AFTER the problem started
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