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HP Pavilion Running WinMe fails to load Windows
I've got an HP Pavilion running WinME thats 3 years old which for some
reason decided several weeks ago to start booting correctly, with the exception of displaying the wallpaper and the taskbar for a brief second, and then hanging permanently. In other words, when I start the computer everything boots correctly, and when the Login box appears, I login or click cancel to get to the desktop. The wallpaper displays, as does the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but only for a split second, and then it disappears. The computer then hangs permanently and sits staring at me in smug defiance. Since this little situation appeared several weeks ago I've bought a new computer, and the only reason I am spending time on this is because I have lots of information I'd like to get off of the old hard drive (that, and the CD burner in my new computer makes CD's which won't play in my 4 year old Pioneer car stereo - anybody have any input on that and know a way to work around it? (short of buying a new car stereo, thanks)) I've done searches on Google for bootable CD images, which I've tried, and apparently my new computer refuses to boot from the CD drive, as far as I can tell, although I could be wrong. I'd like to find a bootable CD image which will let me at least boot to DOS, but I haven't been able to find one so far. I'd make a bootable floppy with my new machine, but it doesn't have a floppy drive, and I'm not spending the $$ on a USB floppy at this point. I do have the 3 system recovery CD's that came with the computer, but there are no directions with them, and I can't get them to do anything, so right now they are worthless to me. (I realize this is long, but I'm trying to include all parts of the problem and the things that I have tried to fix it up to this point.) Ideally what I would like is to restore 100% functionality to the OS in my Me machine simply so I can retrieve the data I need to and burn a bunch of CD's with my old burner (which makes CD's my car stereo WILL play...although I tried installing my old burner on my new machine and XP threw a fit and disabled the drivers.) However, at this point I think restoring 100% functionality might be a little much to hope for, though I hope someone proves me wrong! Thanks in advance to anyone who tries to tackle this! Computer Info: HP Pavilion xt919 WinMe 800Mhz Celeron Phoenix BIOS v. 4.0 release 6.0.A 128MB RAM |
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HP Pavilion Running WinMe fails to load Windows
Can you boot OK to Safe Mode??
If not, try the following Boot to DOS using a Win ME Startup floppy, and type SCANREG /FIX at the A:\ prompt When complete, remove the floppy and reboot. See if that helps. If not - try using System Restore to get back to before your system went west..... http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=279736 If that doesn't work, then post back and we'll look at other things..... -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Freebird" wrote in message .com... I've got an HP Pavilion running WinME thats 3 years old which for some reason decided several weeks ago to start booting correctly, with the exception of displaying the wallpaper and the taskbar for a brief second, and then hanging permanently. In other words, when I start the computer everything boots correctly, and when the Login box appears, I login or click cancel to get to the desktop. The wallpaper displays, as does the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but only for a split second, and then it disappears. The computer then hangs permanently and sits staring at me in smug defiance. Since this little situation appeared several weeks ago I've bought a new computer, and the only reason I am spending time on this is because I have lots of information I'd like to get off of the old hard drive (that, and the CD burner in my new computer makes CD's which won't play in my 4 year old Pioneer car stereo - anybody have any input on that and know a way to work around it? (short of buying a new car stereo, thanks)) I've done searches on Google for bootable CD images, which I've tried, and apparently my new computer refuses to boot from the CD drive, as far as I can tell, although I could be wrong. I'd like to find a bootable CD image which will let me at least boot to DOS, but I haven't been able to find one so far. I'd make a bootable floppy with my new machine, but it doesn't have a floppy drive, and I'm not spending the $$ on a USB floppy at this point. I do have the 3 system recovery CD's that came with the computer, but there are no directions with them, and I can't get them to do anything, so right now they are worthless to me. (I realize this is long, but I'm trying to include all parts of the problem and the things that I have tried to fix it up to this point.) Ideally what I would like is to restore 100% functionality to the OS in my Me machine simply so I can retrieve the data I need to and burn a bunch of CD's with my old burner (which makes CD's my car stereo WILL play...although I tried installing my old burner on my new machine and XP threw a fit and disabled the drivers.) However, at this point I think restoring 100% functionality might be a little much to hope for, though I hope someone proves me wrong! Thanks in advance to anyone who tries to tackle this! Computer Info: HP Pavilion xt919 WinMe 800Mhz Celeron Phoenix BIOS v. 4.0 release 6.0.A 128MB RAM |
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HP Pavilion Running WinMe fails to load Windows
Noel asked:
Can you boot OK to Safe Mode?? No, I can't...I tried several times tonight with the same original problem rearing its head in the end. And then suggested that I: Boot to DOS using a Win ME Startup floppy, and type I don't have a startup floppy, and as far as I can tell, my attempt at creating a bootable CD with my new computer using a CD image I downloaded and my new machine's burner was unsuccessful. Any pointers to a site where I can download a CD image which will allow me to burn a CD that will boot the old machine to DOS? I searched and searched and unfortunately didn't find what I was looking for, assuming that it exists somewhere. |
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HP Pavilion Running WinMe fails to load Windows
www.bootdisk.com
get the Win ME OEM disk - run the download to create the floppy. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Freebird" wrote in message .com... Noel asked: Can you boot OK to Safe Mode?? No, I can't...I tried several times tonight with the same original problem rearing its head in the end. And then suggested that I: Boot to DOS using a Win ME Startup floppy, and type I don't have a startup floppy, and as far as I can tell, my attempt at creating a bootable CD with my new computer using a CD image I downloaded and my new machine's burner was unsuccessful. Any pointers to a site where I can download a CD image which will allow me to burn a CD that will boot the old machine to DOS? I searched and searched and unfortunately didn't find what I was looking for, assuming that it exists somewhere. |
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