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System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 9:01 am
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Posted by Blue Wizard (4 messages posted)


I restarted a computer for what appeared to be a routine update for my spyware-removing program. When the computer restarts, it freezes at the Windows 2000 screen where there's a blue load bar at the bottom – the bar fills, but it never gets past that screen. If you wait long enough it will flash a blue screen with some white text on it (it goes too fast to tell what it says) before restarting and repeating the entire process all over again.

When I attempt to boot into safe mode, the computer freezes at the screen before, the black-and-white part that says "Starting Windows..." and has a loading bar along the bottom. I have a 2000 Professional reinstall CD, and I've been able to install another copy of Windows in a separate directory on the same partition (I called it WINNT2, in contrast to the nonfunctional WINNT), so I can get into my computer and access my files. Can anyone suggest a method for getting my computer up and running again?

Oh, one other thing – when I boot from my 2K CD and attempt to repair the directory, it only recognizes the new WINNT2 directory, not WINNT. Maybe this information is helpful.


Responses to this message:
*re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 9:38 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Tue, May 20, 2008, 9:01 am)
-re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Tue, May 20, 2008, 9:38 pm)
-re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Wed, May 21, 2008, 10:21 am)
-re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Wed, May 21, 2008, 11:25 am)
-re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Wed, May 21, 2008, 1:01 pm)
-re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (DEX: Wed, May 21, 2008, 6:25 pm)
*re: System freeze during startup, safe boot doesn't work (Blue Wizard: Fri, May 23, 2008, 1:13 pm)
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