re: Now a Loading Personal Settings Loop during boot causing bootup failure - arrghh - help, Dex!
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:52 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
I went ahead with aRepair Install, and it also got stuck at the Paging File, the
first reboot after starting. On a hunch, to see if it would disturb whatever drive
renaming that WinXP had done (to W2K's setup), I added a Slaved Hdd to the hardware.
Now, it doesn't complain about a paging file, but it does loop through the Personal
Settings boxes, first Applying them, then Saving them, rapidly, occasionally playing
the Windows loading tune.
Surely there is some way to use XP, or the Safe Mode Command line, to undo whatever
happened between installing the two OSes?
.
Kiwi
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On Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:41 am, Kiwi wrote:
>The boot loop thread I found with search was different.
>
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1186168603
>
>My daughter in law's PC suddenly lost track of its ethernet and before
>trying to RESTORE (in XP), she tried other stuff to the extent that I decided
>to pull the drive to see if I can get it sorted, and swapped in a fresh
>drive. This time, I was setting it up to dual-boot, and W2K was doing fine
>until XP was installed.
>
>Now, when attempting to boot into W2K, even in Safe Mode, there is a box
>warning about no paging file or too small of a paging file. And it never
>clears out of the way, just loops (moderately slowly in normal mode, and
>very, extremely slowly, in Safe Mode).
>
>It's a new one on me, and Google didn't give me anything that I could
>use, other than suggesting a repair install, which AFAIK, may cause
>problems with Windows XP.
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