windows is starting up.....

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so this has to be as the most irritating error message i have encountered....

was on vm + skype when the vm died and the main os crashed and ever since i have tried to start the laptop back up im greeted with the "Windows is Starting Up" screen which doesnt go anywhere and just sits there.

OS : XP SP3
Laptop : 1.8ghz c2d 2.5gb ram

safe mode : fails
safe mode with networking : fails
last good known config : fails
ubuntu : fails, doesnt load :O
windows repair : says there is NO HDD :O
hiren boot cd : fails

got to work on a deadline and now this :@ suggestions ?
 
looks like a failed hard disk to me. still since it's a laptop there aren't many ways to check other than removing and reslotting the ram.

same thing happened to my friend's sony vaio nad the culprit was the hard disk.
 
the laptop boots all the way till the screen before the login screen.....so its some OS issue for sure. I tried running chkdsk using hiren boot cd and it shut my laptop off....am trying to revive a redundant os installation on another partition.
 
rdst_1 said:
looks like a failed hard disk to me. still since it's a laptop there aren't many ways to check other than removing and reslotting the ram.

same thing happened to my friend's sony vaio nad the culprit was the hard disk.
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Looks same to me as well. Whatever you do first remove the HDD and make a backup (if it's readable). This will confirm as well whether the HDD has any problems.

Other than that, may be a RAM issue as well. Check with any extra RAM sticks or try cleaning the existing ones. Once of my friends had this problem due to loose RAM sticks caused due to a shock while travelling.
 
Hmm sounds like corrupted files, do a chkdsk x: /f /i..
And throw away the ubuntu live disc get a Knoppix 5.1 Live CD or DVD....
 
andrew327 said:
Hmm sounds like corrupted files, do a chkdsk x: /f /i..
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How to do a chkdsk on a system that is not booting?

If the system is also not booting with Live CDs- then it's HDD error. If possible check the HDD in another laptop or with a external casing.
 
^^ Read properly what he has posted, its booting and getting stuck at windows is starting up and you need to use the windows xp setup disc and when presented with option choose Repair and type in the commands.
If even repair fails, get some Windows XP PE or in other words XP Live CD, mostly they are 70-600mb in size and try booting the system from it and using the above commands from the PE console...
 
^ no live cd works! and not even windows cd (orginal that too! )---- says NO HDD FOUND :O which it never did.

no ubuntu - no erd commander - NOTHING!......i managed to start the system on an OLD windows OS on another parition. took 2 hours to try all permutation / combinations of passwords i had in the past 1 yr. and viola! it logged in. 1st thing i took an ENTIRE backup of the other partition. so i have all my data now. BUT i dont have the main SQL db export. but i have the flat files. However, the laptop ran absolutely fine on the other dead OS. and no hangs nothing. So it IS the OS on the other parition. I ran ranish and it said there is some error on the file system. Did something for 2 hours and the same thing. Its kaput. I'm too chicken to run a utility of hiren boot cd that said that there is some sector mismatch and it needs to fix it , and i need to hit YES .

The happy thing is i have the night and tomorrow to work on my work and im lagging by 8-10 hours which i can make up. Night + Tea + TE ...FTW :D...can sleep in peace today cause i dont really know what exactly i was supposed to do , cause the system crashed just before the session. touf 2 days ahead......coming weekend , clean format and vista goes in.....

so people throw all the RnD steps , my OS is open for a gala time :D

edit : sorry for the WEIRD typos above , talking on phone + TE + laptop + desktop + bag digging.
 
thetechmind said:
^looking at some solutions without format to save the agony.
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Actually it'l save you a lot of agony later on..frankly if you hav a big work load, this is the most sure fire way...
Ps- Go win7 route, not vista:P
 
.....bump..... issue still not resolved, surviving on the second OS on the hdd and now i have only 500mb of free space on that partition.

Cant install windows 7 yet as the softwares i need to run on the laptop are not yet windows 7 compliant entirely.
 
this happened a few times.. not exactly with vm and all.. but OS wouldn't load after crash..

insert windows installation disk and boot into it.

at 1st selection screen, select repair mode with R

it will ask you to select windows OS...probably you have onlly one.. so select appropriate option ... 0, 1 whatever it is.

skip above suggestion if you already know how to enter repair console :P

do a forced and recovering checkdisk in your primary partition...the drive where the bootloader is located.

chkdsk /p (is the command)

try chkdsk /f if above doesnt work.

do check disk in all partitions.
 
madnav said:
this happened a few times.. not exactly with vm and all.. but OS wouldn't load after crash..

insert windows installation disk and boot into it.

at 1st selection screen, select repair mode with R

it will ask you to select windows OS...probably you have onlly one.. so select appropriate option ... 0, 1 whatever it is.

skip above suggestion if you already know how to enter repair console :P

do a forced and recovering checkdisk in your primary partition...the drive where the bootloader is located.

chkdsk /p (is the command)
try chkdsk /f if above doesnt work.

do check disk in all partitions.
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:| http://www.techenclave.com/operating-systems/windows-is-starting-up-149427.html#post1286504 :|
 
^ am running a chkdsk /r right now using my secondary OS, just to be sure that no bad sectors , am gonna try ur method one more time again, else its fdisk :@
 
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