wingzero2309 Posted April 14, 2005 CID Share Posted April 14, 2005 My sisters computer recently started being weird starting up. When i press the button to turn it on, it brings up the compaq logo and whatnot and then brings up the Windows XP loading screen (u know..the windows flag and the little meter that moves). Normally, it would stay on this load screen for like ~10-20 seconds before bringing the welcome screen. Now, it just stays on that load screen literally forever; it stayed on it for 10+ minutes as it moved the little loading thingy. So i figured maybe if i just restart it will work, but it didnt start up. So i restarted and loaded it with safe mode; it started this way, all my stuff was still there, but i noticed a new icon...WEATHERBUG...the horror....so i uninstalled it and then, ran adaware and spybot, they didnt find anything but cookies So i figured it was probably weatherbugs fault that the comp was being weird, but after restarting, it still would not start. So i come here, to the computer gurus @ testmy.net, wonder if theres any way to get it to work without having to reformat and install all the drivers and software and everything (its a pain in the ass..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted April 14, 2005 CID Share Posted April 14, 2005 ive actually had that same problem several times b4 and i know for a fact i didnt have any spyware / adware.. i just wound up reformatting but wth i do that almost every other week :haha: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cak46 Posted April 14, 2005 CID Share Posted April 14, 2005 If you have had system restore running right along, you could try restoring to a date prior to when the problem first began. edit: You can run system restore from safe mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted April 14, 2005 CID Share Posted April 14, 2005 Go into safe mode, place your Windows XP CD into the CD-ROM (close the start up window), then go to START Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted April 15, 2005 Author CID Share Posted April 15, 2005 i turned system restore off on that comp i think i guess that means i'll be going with the sfc /scannow option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted May 22, 2005 CID Share Posted May 22, 2005 also possibly a bad hard drive...boot up in DoS if possible (win98 startup floppy is still the cats' ass) & do a scandisk; otherwise it is probably a boot sector issue that was mentioned by the other posters. hope this helps- -JxL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cak46 Posted May 23, 2005 CID Share Posted May 23, 2005 also possibly a bad hard drive...boot up in DoS if possible (win98 startup floppy is still the cats' ass) & do a scandisk; otherwise it is probably a boot sector issue that was mentioned by the other posters. hope this helps- -JxL I believe it will only work on a fat32 partition for XP. No go for the NTFS file system...... Have you run anti-virus scan on it? Didn't see it in your post.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted May 24, 2005 CID Share Posted May 24, 2005 Windows XP doesn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cak46 Posted May 24, 2005 CID Share Posted May 24, 2005 If you boot from floppy, you would use the os on the floppy (DOS) for win98 startup disk. See info for FAT32 with XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525/EN-US/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane_floyd Posted May 25, 2005 CID Share Posted May 25, 2005 Just check all the boxes after you get to the checkdisk tool for the drive, windows will scan the drive next time you boot. It may be a driver problem, did she install any new devices just before the problem happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted May 25, 2005 CID Share Posted May 25, 2005 Windows XP doesn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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