mrmist Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 If I were you and I had access to another machine, I would take the drive out of that one, pop it into the spare box and copy off any relevant data files, before putting the drive back and starting over on the existing machine. It really doesn't sound happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steev Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 You could try booting with step-by-step confirmation (option from the safe mode boot menu) to try & isolate exactly which command is freaking it out on startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchhiker Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 You could try booting with step-by-step confirmation (option from the safe mode boot menu) to try & isolate exactly which command is freaking it out on startup? That doesn't work. There seems to be one file in the Drivers directory which it gets stuck on but I can't access that file to isolate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchhiker Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 F1, F1, F1!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 If you don't have another machine you can use a knoppix disk to load up linux, get access to the drives to copy data to a usb stick / cd and then do a reinstall. Of course, getting the knoppix cd without a separate machine will require a firned to download and burn it for you. Drop me a PM if you need a knoppix disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchhiker Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 If you don't have another machine you can use a knoppix disk to load up linux, get access to the drives to copy data to a usb stick / cd and then do a reinstall. Of course, getting the knoppix cd without a separate machine will require a firned to download and burn it for you. Drop me a PM if you need a knoppix disk. Thats an interesting idea. Can I install linux on the same partition as an XP install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steev Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I assume Richard means a live boot CD... You could also use something like UBCD & a USB hard drive in case you need copy files off before flattening it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 sounds like a registry hive is corrupt, windows will boot until it tries to load the corrupted hive then it briefly flashes an error message and restarts, this will happen in safe mode as well if that sounds about right you could try How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellidontno Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 sounds like a registry hive is corrupt, windows will boot until it tries to load the corrupted hive then it briefly flashes an error message and restarts, this will happen in safe mode as well if that sounds about right you could try How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting i had the exact same thing happen to me what a nightmare i had to type stuff in like whats in the link above and it worked good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchhiker Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 sounds like a registry hive is corrupt, windows will boot until it tries to load the corrupted hive then it briefly flashes an error message and restarts, this will happen in safe mode as well I'm not certain it's not a registry problem. When the computer tries to boot it seems to stick on this driver: gagp30kx.sys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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