[Mystic User]

Hello all,

I just moved my computer and after unloading and trying to restart the
computer just stops. All I see on the screen is the black Windows XP startup
screen with the blue bars scrolling from left to right. I let it run for a
few days (3) and it never gets past this screen. Is there anything I can do
to fix this problem? Is it too late to make a backup of the data and
reinstall after I reinstall XP? This is my video production computer and I
have not backed up anything.

I have a custom made 2.4GHz 1G Ram 2-120G HDs operating with XP Prof.

Can it be saved? Help please.
mystic

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"Mystic User" wrote:

| Hello all,
|
| I just moved my computer and after unloading and trying to restart the
| computer just stops. All I see on the screen is the black Windows XP startup
| screen with the blue bars scrolling from left to right. I let it run for a
| few days (3) and it never gets past this screen. Is there anything I can do
| to fix this problem? Is it too late to make a backup of the data and
| reinstall after I reinstall XP? This is my video production computer and I
| have not backed up anything.
|
| I have a custom made 2.4GHz 1G Ram 2-120G HDs operating with XP Prof.
|
| Can it be saved? Help please.
| mystic

[Mystic User]

Thanks for the link, but this did not solve my problem. When I installed the
XP-CD the computer showed "starting windows" and just stayed there-stuck. I
rebooted after waiting 2 hours and tried to enter safe mode. The screen
scrolled throught some commands and then locked up again on "iomdisk.sys". I
shut the computer off and walked away. Any words of advice?

"Mystic User" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I just moved my computer and after unloading and trying to restart the
> computer just stops. All I see on the screen is the black Windows XP startup
> screen with the blue bars scrolling from left to right. I let it run for a
> few days (3) and it never gets past this screen. Is there anything I can do
> to fix this problem? Is it too late to make a backup of the data and
> reinstall after I reinstall XP? This is my video production computer and I
> have not backed up anything.
>
> I have a custom made 2.4GHz 1G Ram 2-120G HDs operating with XP Prof.
>
> Can it be saved? Help please.
> mystic
>
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[djcaseley]

I know this is heracy on an MS board, but you could use a Knoppix or
Suse Live CD to get access to the HDD for backups of files.


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"Mystic User" <mystic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0B96DF01-CB90-4042-AA97-471792470BF7@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I just moved my computer and after unloading and trying to restart the
> computer just stops. All I see on the screen is the black Windows XP startup
> screen with the blue bars scrolling from left to right. I let it run for a
> few days (3) and it never gets past this screen. Is there anything I can do
> to fix this problem? Is it too late to make a backup of the data and
> reinstall after I reinstall XP? This is my video production computer and I
> have not backed up anything.
>
> I have a custom made 2.4GHz 1G Ram 2-120G HDs operating with XP Prof.
>
> Can it be saved? Help please.
> mystic
>
> --
> You can never know it all