Guest bart.pellens@gmail.com Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please describe which steps I should follow to repair XP?
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen "bart.pellens@gmail.com" wrote: > I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the > login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot > into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. > Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please > describe which steps I should follow to repair XP? "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done. -- d-d
Guest RA Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen On 27 aug, 11:28, "Detlev Dreyer" <detdre...@flashmail.com> wrote: > "bart.pell...@gmail.com" wrote: > > I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the > > login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot > > into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. > > Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please > > describe which steps I should follow to repair XP? > > "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us > > Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done. > > -- > d-d I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take ages to configure all installed software again. There must be a more simple way to repair XP, it is almost funny that I should reinstall an entire OS because of a failing driver or corrupted registry entry. A boot with "last known good configuration" is working so isn't it possible to copy this configuration and boot with it the "normal" way?
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen "RA" <bart.pellens@gmail.com> wrote: >> "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us >> >> Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done. > > I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take > ages to configure all installed software again. Why don't you read the posted article. in-place upgrade = repair installation Good luck. -- d-d
Guest Alias Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen RA wrote: > On 27 aug, 11:28, "Detlev Dreyer" <detdre...@flashmail.com> wrote: >> "bart.pell...@gmail.com" wrote: >>> I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the >>> login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot >>> into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. >>> Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please >>> describe which steps I should follow to repair XP? >> "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us >> >> Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when done. >> >> -- >> d-d > > I would like to avoid a re-installation of XP because it will take > ages to configure all installed software again. That's not what Detlev suggested. > There must be a more simple way to repair XP, it is almost funny that > I should reinstall an entire OS because of a failing driver or > corrupted registry entry. A boot with "last known good configuration" > is working so isn't it possible to copy this configuration and boot > with it the "normal" way? > A repair install shouldn't affect your data or any of your installed programs. It will remove the updates you got from Windows Updates. Please read the link Detlev gave you on how to do it. -- Alias To email me, remove shoes
Guest Ken Blake Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen Detlev Dreyer wrote: > "bart.pellens@gmail.com" wrote: > >> I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the >> login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot >> into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. >> Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please >> describe which steps I should follow to repair XP? > > "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP" > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us > > Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when > done. Let me add to Detlev's good advice that, unless you have some very special and unusual need, using ramdrive software within Windows is almost always counterproductive and will hurt your performance. How do you intend to use it? -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
Guest RA Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen On 27 aug, 16:45, "Ken Blake" <kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote: > Detlev Dreyer wrote: > > "bart.pell...@gmail.com" wrote: > > >> I uninstalled some ramdrive software and now XP reboots after the > >> login screen. The same happens in safe mode. The only way I can boot > >> into XP is by using the "last known good configuration" option. > >> Unfortunately no restore points are available... Can someone please > >> describe which steps I should follow to repair XP? > > > "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP" > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us > > > Note that all available system updates have to be reinstalled when > > done. > > Let me add to Detlev's good advice that, unless you have some very special > and unusual need, using ramdrive software within Windows is almost always > counterproductive and will hurt your performance. How do you intend to use > it? > > -- > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User > Please reply to the newsgroup Thank you all for the help. I was able to "solve" the issue by booting with the "last known good configuration" and disabling all the devices with a problem in the device manager (by using show hidden devices). Turns out it was the Ram driver device that was causing the issue. Unfortunately I'm unable to uninstall this driver, every time I uninstall the driver I'm asked to reboot XP and after reboot XP just keeps on rebooting by itself. Something is going wrong with the uninstallation of the driver... Ken Blake : I would like to use a RAM drive to speed up the caching of a game. The game currently caches lots of files on the hard-disk and I assumed it would go faster with a RAM-drive.
Guest Ken Blake Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: XP reboots after login screen "RA" <bart.pellens@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1188379045.198702.127250@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > On 27 aug, 16:45, "Ken Blake" <kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> > wrote: >> Let me add to Detlev's good advice that, unless you have some very >> special >> and unusual need, using ramdrive software within Windows is almost always >> counterproductive and will hurt your performance. How do you intend to >> use >> it? > Ken Blake : I would like to use a RAM drive to speed up the caching of > a game. The game currently caches lots of files on the hard-disk and I > assumed it would go faster with a RAM-drive. You can try it, but unless you have lots more RAM than you need, my guess is that it will probably go *slower*. You may make that caching faster, but you do so by removing RAM from Windows's use. The result is normally extra paging, which makes everything slower. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > >
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