XP Re-start after Repair Re-install
Slow XP Home Edition required a repair re-install off an OEM CD. So I know I will have to re-activate Windows, which it prompts me to do on start-up. After that I see nothing but the default user's background screen - no icons, no taskbar, zilch. Lots of disk thrashing, ut it goes on and on and on and on and on ad nauseum, to the point where you don't believe it is doing anything.Can't log in using safe mode because activation can't run under safe mode. I suspect that the SAM reg hive is corrupted. Question: is it worth while just leaving this to run? My problem is that if it isn't, then there are no earlier SAM files in sys vol info. Any idea what software.gbck, sam.gbck files are?1 person needs an answerI do too
August 31st, 2010 7:53pm

Does your computer have any other Windows installed before?This problem is likely due to following reasons:(1) Your System recovery Partition (hidden) has a different XP signature than the OEM CD has.(2) Did you alter any hardware? HD, RAM, CD\DVD, GPU, Ethernet card?(3) Rare case of your XP is blacklisted by Bill Gates. Of course MS. I have read a lot of complaints of genuine OEM CDs getting blacklisted.If you rule out first two, yell at your computer manufacturer all the shiyt. Also give call to Bill Gates (or Microsoft Help/Authentication) to let them know your issue. [personally, I like Bill Gates..he is really a cool scion of humanity]
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September 1st, 2010 5:33am

A "Repair Installation" of xp really doesnt work very well,besides,the "repair" requires almost as much time as a "clean install"...If you could get into safe-mode, enter as administrator,the activation shouldnt prevent xp from running.Also,if the recovery console is available,in recovery,type: Fixboot Agree,type: CHKDSK C: /R Once its thru,type: EXIT Let xp start-up.
September 1st, 2010 6:04am

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