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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Sp1Ral on April 10, 2003, 09:31:06 AM

Title: windows 2000 on a new HD
Post by: Sp1Ral on April 10, 2003, 09:31:06 AM

Greetings,

I just upgraded my harddrive and used Norton Ghost to clone my old one to the new one.  My problem is: when I get to windows and log in, on the new drive, I get nothing.  Just a blank light blue screen.  The safe thing happens when I boot in safe mode.  It gets to windows and I get nothing else.

Any ideas?

Title: windows 2000 on a new HD
Post by: Tracky110XP on April 11, 2003, 08:14:21 AM

Hummmm good one, try this. when you are on the desktop with no icons opened up press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC this will open up the task manager, goto file then new task and run c:\winnt\explorer.exe -- note you must put in the full path. if that then opens up an explorer window i would check to see if there is an explorer.exe in the c:\winnt\system32 folder, if there is you have a virus.

there is also the option to try this. use task manager just like above and open up regedit then delete the key of: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices -- then restart and the key will be re-built for you.

Good luck, and have fun.

Title: windows 2000 on a new HD
Post by: Sp1ral on April 12, 2003, 10:33:01 AM

Hey,

Both great ideas, except CTRL-SHIFT-ESC didn't work either.  So what I ended up doing was booting off the original drive, and going into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and swapping 'c' and 'd'.  When i rebooted all was good except for a few minor errors.

All is fixed now though.

Thanks.

-Sp1ral