Guest didds Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Fujitsu-Siemens laptop running XP Media centre. When starting up, gets to blue screen (not BSOD) with "windiws starting" but never progresses. F8 - last known good configuration no better, VGA mode no different. F8 - safe mode starts up fine. From safe mode, trying to return to a previous restore point (even one aeons ago) starts restoring files "procedure"/screen, but never completes... at best some files get retsored (blue bar is partially filled across the screen). F8 - safe mode with command prompt OK but chkdsk /f doesn;t actually ever start a scan on subsequent reboot into safe mode. Am stuck with how to proceed. Sorry if this is a FAQ but have googled and found nothing definitive to date. cheers ian
Guest Ron Badour Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: XP not starting up in "full" mode Since it boots fine in safe mode, something being started at boot may be the problem: How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316434 -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 "didds" <didds2@excite.com> wrote in message news:7e5ccc01-f3b9-4dd4-abc5-bc0e054162cb@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Fujitsu-Siemens laptop running XP Media centre. > > When starting up, gets to blue screen (not BSOD) with "windiws > starting" but never progresses. > > F8 - last known good configuration no better, VGA mode no different. > > F8 - safe mode starts up fine. > > From safe mode, trying to return to a previous restore point (even one > aeons ago) starts restoring files "procedure"/screen, but never > completes... at best some files get retsored (blue bar is partially > filled across the screen). > > F8 - safe mode with command prompt OK but chkdsk /f doesn;t actually > ever start a scan on subsequent reboot into safe mode. > > Am stuck with how to proceed. > > Sorry if this is a FAQ but have googled and found nothing definitive > to date. > > cheers > > ian
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