xp booting problem

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sagar_coolx

Adept
hey guyz.my system is:athlon 64 3200+,
2*512 mb transcend ram,
geforce 6600,
segate 160 gb hdd. (sata)
now sometimes,while xp is loading it takes a lot of time.
usually,my system takes around 30 secs to boot up,bu sometimes in the main loading screen of xp,it takes whole 3-4 minutes!! the progress bar stops for sometime and resumes after some time.
i am very irritated by this.
this happens only in the main loading window.once i reach the login window.everything happens in a jiffy!
has any one of u faced this problem?does any one know the solution?i am helpless right now.
i scanned my system with spybot,but it came up with nothing. so what can it be??please......help me out:confused: :confused: :confused: :mad:
 
1. Try booting into safe mode a couple of times. How long does that take?

2. Run Chkdsk /r, see if it comes up with any bad sectors

Let us know the results :)
 
sagar_coolx said:
sometimes in the main loading screen of xp,it takes whole 3-4 minutes
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I read somewhere that this can happen when you had previously attached some hardware (most prob a drive) and that has been subsquently removed - it seems XP is searching for the removed drive at the time when it seems to take long to start up.

Also it has been suggested to empty out the Prefetch directory which is located under the Windows directory - this has helped me speed up my XP startup when I felt it had slowed down.
 
this happened to me when my ide cable's were plugged in my cd-rw and the power was off on cd-rw kindly make sure u have all of ur optical drives and ide drives powered on also try removing all usb devices and boot.
 
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