Windows NT, 2000, and XP remember drive letters previously assigned to partitions. Unload the hive, and boot the machine - should run like a champ Load the hive "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" either with regedit or loadhive.exe, and navigate to "MountedDevices"Įxport the key to a file (for backup purposes) then delete all the entries located in the "MountedDevices" key - do not delete the key itself. I dinked around a bit - and stumbled upon the answer -Įither boot the machine with BartPE, Winternals, or some other "live cd" windows environment, or attach the drive to a machine with a running copy of XP. The mouse and keyboard still responded - it just stops there as if it can't load the next step in the login process.Īfter running a chkdsk and making sure the drive order and whatnot were right, I was kinda at a loss. When I booted the SATA drive, it got through the initial loading screen, then stopped just before the welcome screen where it's just the blue background with the small Windows logo and name. This time around, I cloned an IDE drive over to an SATA and removed an add-on IDE controller. I've seen this a few times, but had never found a fix or seen the cause before now. I had this problem, and found no answers anywhere - then figured it out, so I thought I'd share my experience. I'm new to this forum - I found it while googling the title of this thread.
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