Re: Problem with disk upgrade of Windows XP Pro

From: Dustin Cook (bughunter.dustin_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/15/05 

Date: 15 Nov 2005 13:45:14 -0800

Damian wrote:

[this wasn't originally crossposted, Damain decided he wanted to show
his/her trolling ignorance to many of you. I'm simply leaving the
headers as is, aside from the google 5 limitation.]

> Dustin Cook wrote:
> > Julie wrote:
> >> Dustin Cook wrote:
> >>> zarta...@comcast.net wrote:
> >>>> I recently cloned my existing hard drive, via Drive Image 7.0, to a new
> >>>> larger disk. The new disk boots WIndows XP Pro just fine. However, when
> >>>> I try to log into any account the usual start-up message "Loading your
> >>>> personal settings ...", is displayed for just for a split-second. Then
> >>>> the message "Logging off ..." is displayed and stays displayed for
> >>>> some time. Eventually the login window is redisplayed. All accounts,
> >>>> including the the Administrator account, behave in this manner. Safe
> >>>> mode also behaves the same way.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is going on? Can this behavior be fixed?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Zartan2k
> >>>
> >>> Hmm... Are you sure the clone was succesful? A certain registry key if
> >>> a certain piece of spyware is removed will cause this behavior, but you
> >>> didn't mention you had that problem.
> >>>
> >>> I'll need more details in order to help.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Dustin Cook
> >> zartan2k@comcast.net wrote:
> >>> Drive Image reported that the cloning completed with no errors. I
> >>> don't believe this system has any spyware issues.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I would recommend killfiling Dustbin Kook, he will just drive you to
> >> drink. Have you tried booting into Safe Mode?
> >
> > You have to be able to login to boot into safe mode. It's not allowing
> > user/admin logins. You knew that tho, right?
> > :)
>
> <s***>
>
> >
> > Zartan, if you know how to use a bart disc, you can boot the box from
> > it, and mount your registry and check a particular key. If the key
> > looks right, then you have some other problem; A bad profile perhaps,
> > and/or corrupt registry hive. If you haven't disabled system restore,.
> > you can find backup registry hives in the systemvolumeinformation
> > folder, under _restore (long clsid)/rp# (# is incremental, go back a
> > few days and enter it by date), inside you will find amongst other
> > things a folder called snapshot, in here is a backup of the registry
> > hive.
>
> <chorttle>
>
> >
> > You can try copying the hive back to c:\windows\system32\config and
> > rename them from _registry_blah.software to SOFTWARE. You'll need to
> > do the same for others.
>
> <guffaw>
>
> >
> > If your original backup is still working, you can also try cloning
> > again, try a different package this time.
> >
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Damian, do you have any suggestions for the user? Do you disagree with
anything I've said in the post? What other alternatives should said
user try?

Regards,
Dustin Cook
http://bughunter.atspace.org