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Windows 2000 boot problems
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Windows 2000 boot problems
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 5:01 am
Posted by Holden Caulfield
(1 messages posted)
Whenever my Windows 2000 Professional, Sp 4
restarts or cold boots, it now installs a backup, erasing (or relocating) the My
Documents folder--among other things. The event log is crammed with numerous error
messages and alerts, casting suspicion on the hard disk.
Would a registry editer/cleaner software help?
Should I tango with the ERD disk?
Should I reformat the hard drive?
Should I just quit and go home?
Please Advise.
holden
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re: Windows 2000 boot problems
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 7:09 am
Posted by Steve B
(1588 messages posted)
You have problems! I don't know what that "installs a backup" is all about. "Quit
and go home" sounds like the wisest choice :)
I don't know if your problems are related to your hard drive, but testing a hard
drive is easy.
You can do it online using your browser by going here:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/asp/tools/en/
Or you can download and run this:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=15&swid=3
If you can't run your operating system, you would need to boot a standalone (DOS)
diagnostic from floppy or CD. All the drive manufacturers have them, and they run
on any brand of drive.
By the way, Seagate's diagnostics will offer to check the file systems on your drives,
but I don't think it works right. It usually tells me my NTFS partitions are bad,
but they aren't. The real purpose of such diagnostics is to test the hard drive
hardware.
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 5:01 am, Holden Caulfield wrote:
>Whenever my Windows 2000 Professional, Sp 4
>restarts or cold boots, it now installs a backup, erasing (or relocating) the My
>Documents folder--among other things. The event log is crammed with numerous error
>messages and alerts, casting suspicion on the hard disk.
>Would a registry editer/cleaner software help?
>Should I tango with the ERD disk?
>Should I reformat the hard drive?
>Should I just quit and go home?
>Please Advise.
>
>holden
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re: Windows 2000 boot problems
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 7:16 am
Posted by DEX
(11774 messages posted)
Holden
Download this free small program and use it to stop the program from loading up at
boot.
Then find the program and remove it. (uninstall it)
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StartUp CPL ver.2.8
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Startup-CPL.shtml
StartUP
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4436
StartUp is an innovative start-up items editor, which allows you to identify, add,
edit, remove or disable items using an intuitive graphical user interface.
Start-Up is a small standalone executable, so you can easily take it with you!
The embedded help file explains everything you ever wanted to know about your computer's
start-up!
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 5:01 am, Holden Caulfield wrote:
>Whenever my Windows 2000 Professional, Sp 4
>restarts or cold boots, it now installs a backup, erasing (or relocating) the My
>Documents folder--among other things. The event log is crammed with numerous error
>messages and alerts, casting suspicion on the hard disk.
>Would a registry editer/cleaner software help?
>Should I tango with the ERD disk?
>Should I reformat the hard drive?
>Should I just quit and go home?
>Please Advise.
>
>holden
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