Has anyone ever used the repair option on a winXP CD - when booting from the CD? If so, how did it go? I have a 2-week old install of XP Pro that became corrupted after a hiccup during my Zwave driver install (ran great for 2 weeks, but now it locks-up after only a few minutes.. the whole machine locks up, not just HS).
I'm not blaming the Zwave drivers, but the machine locked-up after the install (could be a coincidence) and when I had to reboot it, it gave me all sorts of problems (told me I had invalid dlls, one time told me it couldn't access my activation info, and a few other problems) I finally got it to run for a few minutes after going into safe mode and copying over the invalid dlls with known good copies, but now it locks-up after a few minutes.
The machine was scanned with both spybot and Norton AV 2004 w/latest definitions, and they found no nasties causing the problems (I was surprised the machine stayed up long enough for thes programs to do their scans). Also, the lockups occur even if HS, HSP, MLServer and JRMedia Center or closed or bypassed at startup.
Also, I've already read on several sites to NOT use the repair console on the boot CD, but rather to do the repair from within the install option, after the CD identifies your current installation (apparantly the repair console does bad things).
Anyway, what are folks experience with repairs? I figure it's worth a try, and if it doesn't work, I'll just start all ovcer again.
I'm not blaming the Zwave drivers, but the machine locked-up after the install (could be a coincidence) and when I had to reboot it, it gave me all sorts of problems (told me I had invalid dlls, one time told me it couldn't access my activation info, and a few other problems) I finally got it to run for a few minutes after going into safe mode and copying over the invalid dlls with known good copies, but now it locks-up after a few minutes.
The machine was scanned with both spybot and Norton AV 2004 w/latest definitions, and they found no nasties causing the problems (I was surprised the machine stayed up long enough for thes programs to do their scans). Also, the lockups occur even if HS, HSP, MLServer and JRMedia Center or closed or bypassed at startup.
Also, I've already read on several sites to NOT use the repair console on the boot CD, but rather to do the repair from within the install option, after the CD identifies your current installation (apparantly the repair console does bad things).
Anyway, what are folks experience with repairs? I figure it's worth a try, and if it doesn't work, I'll just start all ovcer again.
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