-=PCTechTalk=- Re: XP Musical boot failure
- From: "recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx" <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:57:16 -0400
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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