pc freezes at startup

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psymanmusic

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helo ppl,

ive had this problem 4 a while now and its doin my head in,

aprox. half the time when i turn on my pc it gets to the welcome screen then freezes. or it freezes just after the black screen with the win xp logo and loading bar that scrolls from letft 2 right. there seems to be no pattern at all

i am fairly sure its not a hardware issiue. because i recenltly did a clean install of xp and the problem went away. but it came back after i migrated my partition 2 a my new hard drive (western digital 320 gig wd3200aaks nice and quiet )

n e 1 got any ideas? i really dont want to have to do a clean intsall of xp again that takes too much time especially when uve got sooooo much sofware installed and configured to perfection.

if it helps here is what my machine consists of;

gigabyte ga-81945p-g-rh mobo
pentium d 805 proc
2 gig ram
pci-e 7600gt graphics card
wd3200aaks hard drive
pci m-audio delta 24/96 audiophile soundcard
pci wi-fi card from belkin

thanks guys.
 
The first thought that comes to mind is a Welcome to the Computer Forum! http://www.computerforum.com/70672-official-welcome-thread.html and the usual reminder for new members to review the http://www.computerforum.com/52038-forum-rules.html

When you refer to migrate that does imply installing Windows onto a second partition that was already there or creating a new second primary? If already there was it reformattd? The first thought is either a bad install of drivers or one of the softwares is seeing Windows lock on boot.

The Windows F8 boot menu can help here with the last known that worked or safe mode option in order to reach the desktop and disable some startups with the msconfig utitlity. That will help isolate the problem usually.
 
thanks for the welcome man.

what i mean by migrate is i simply copied the whole partition off my old hard drive, put it on the new bigger disk and then resised the partirion to fit the new disk.

to put it plainly i duplicated my old disk and thats when the problem appeared.

i dont use the old drive in my pc n e more its in an external caddy for back ups and stuff
 
ahh sorry i undertand why u mis understud.

i wrote something like... "i migrated my partition 2 a my new drive"

what i meant was "i migrated my partition to a new drive".... there was only one partition and it was copied on to my new drive.

sorry i will have to get out of the habit of putting numbers in the place of words when talking about complex stuff like this

thanks 4 the reply by the way
 
You cloned the old drive and used that on the new "larger" drive and are now seeing problems. You just proved one point about how cloning from drive to drive only works when both are identical. You should have backed up all important files with disk images that way and proceeeded with a new fresh primary on the new drive.

This would have insured a clean install of Windows where you could then restore all of the files and folders you had backed up. A cloned Windows onto a different size and certainly different type of drive often ends up with problems. The original boot information was written by the Windows installer for the old drive and continues o look for that same type and size drive.
 
Not really sure at all about the partition stuff.. but I used to have this problem. For a while every time I turned on my computer I would just press delete (to enter the bios) and then exit out of it. That would ensure that my computer would keep going.

Really weird problem, and I'm not even sure if my method did anything but it seemed to work every time.



I ended up reformatting my computer. If all else fails that what I resort to.. and THAT works every time.
 
well thanks for the reply guys,

so before i go and re-install windows does any one know of a way round it?
do u think i could repair the installation somehow? windows recovery console looks promising but ive never used it?

thanks
 
With the clone there you could try the repair install method to see if that will get things running ok. But it's not a sure fire way since XP likes to bond with the new hardware with a fresh install. Remember production activation where XP takes a snapshot of the hardwares installed. That's what often sees problems when cloning. With the same make and model drive companies are able to clone their number of workstation due to being idenical. For you on a desktop at home give the article seen here a good look over for instructions seen at http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
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