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    Stuck on windows blue pre-welcome screen

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ardroth, Mar 21, 2008.

  1. Ardroth

    Ardroth Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know why this would happen? I just got a new drive... cloned my old one to the new one using Norton Ghost (v.14), and I put it in my computer. Started. It gets past the black windows startup screen, but then it halts at the blue windows XP screen (right before the "welcome screen"). The screen that just has a little windows xp icon in the middle. I can still move the mouse, but it just sits there forever... never moves on to the welcome screen. Should I re-clone my old drive and try again? Any suggestions helpful. Thanks.
     
    Ardroth, Mar 21, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    tried safe mode?
     
    flipfire, Mar 21, 2008
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    Ardroth Notebook Consultant

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    Well... It's fixed now. Here's what I did: used Acronis True Image 11 instead of Norton Ghost (I have both). Norton Ghost really sucks... I re-cloned using Acronis and it worked perfectly. I should have just stuck with Acronis in the first place... there's a reason it's widely accepted as the best disk copying software.

    One quick question: My new drive is currently configured to a jumper setting of 1.5Gb/s transfer rate... I left it at that because I wasn't sure if my system supported 3Gb/s... how do I find this out? If I can support 3Gb/s transfer rate I'd defnitely like to use it!
     
    Ardroth, Mar 22, 2008
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