XP refuses to boot after ghosting

**Anilrgowda** · 22-Jan-2007, 06:57 AM

Question

I recently ghosted a machine and now it doesn't want to boot.

Originally the OS was on a 3gb partition which quickly ran out of space. So I ghosted the partition, deleted the old partition, made a larger partition, and put the ghost back in. Now it won't get past the screen that says "windows xp" in the middle, just before the login screen. I can move the mouse around all I want, and ctrl+alt+del does nothing. It does the same thing when I boot into safe mode. I used Ghost 8.0, so it's not a compatability issue.

Why is microsoft torturing me? I'm stumped.

Soln
boot from your xp cd goto recovery console:

run fixboot
then run fixmbr
chkdsk can't hurt to run either
chkdsk c: /p

same hardware except for hard drive right?

22-Jan-2007, 06:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,702 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	XP refuses to boot after ghosting Question I recently ghosted a machine and now it doesn't want to boot. Originally the OS was on a 3gb partition which quickly ran out of space. So I ghosted the partition, deleted the old partition, made a larger partition, and put the ghost back in. Now it won't get past the screen that says "windows xp" in the middle, just before the login screen. I can move the mouse around all I want, and ctrl+alt+del does nothing. It does the same thing when I boot into safe mode. I used Ghost 8.0, so it's not a compatability issue. Why is microsoft torturing me? I'm stumped. Soln boot from your xp cd goto recovery console: run fixboot then run fixmbr chkdsk can't hurt to run either chkdsk c: /p same hardware except for hard drive right?

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