Looking at Disk Management, you have 3 partitions, C:, D: and Z:. D: and Z: are both marked as Active.
Which one do you normally boot from?
What is on each partition?
ok…
c: is my main hard dive, where i have all my files…
d: is my spare hard drive, the one i was using to connect & post on these posts, that is until i think it got infected also…
z: is my portable hard drive, the one i use to transfer large files from one hard drive to another…
i have xp professional x64 edition ver 2003 service pack 2 installed on c: & d:…
I've not used Soluto in a while so I'll have to install it and see what happens. It was pretty simple when it was first released but it looks like they added a lot of complexity. I'll post back once I've tried it.
I posted info for getting help with Soluto from the Soluto support folks, so give that a try.
Disconnect D: and Z:. Try booting with just your C: drive connected. From looking at your Disk Management image, I don't think it will boot as it looks like the D: drive is the Active drive. Not sure if you even have the required boot files on the C: drive. If it won't, you can boot the D: drive as you are doing now, then:
You need to show all files as follows:
Open Control Panel then Folder Options and click on the View tab.
Select "Show hidden files and folders"
Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" (click Yes when prompted)
Click Apply and OK
Now look at your C: drive. It should have these files in the root (C:\):
Next, open Disk Management and see if you can make C: Active. If yes, then shutdown, disconnect D: and see if C: will boot now.
If you can't make C: active that way, you can do the following:
Boot your XP install CD
Enter R as soon as possible to get to the Recovery Console Command Prompt.
Type diskpart and press Enter.
Type list volume and press Enter. The only one listed should be your C: drive, which may or may not be listed as C:.
Type select volume # (# is the number in front of the XP boot drive, 0 1 2 …. Again, not necessarily C:.
Type active and press Enter. That will make the boot partition (volume) Active.
Remove the CD and reboot and see if C: boots now and how the boot time is.
I hope the instructions are clear. If not, please ask any questions and I'll try to make them better.
If the boot time still sucks then I think it's time to do a Clean Install of XP X64 on the C: drive after backing up your data. Do this with D: and Z: disconnected.
Ran Soluto and I do have data in that area:
Got this after the first reboot. I don't know why you are not getting anything there. That's the part we want to see the most.
Found this on the Soluto site. You might want to post there and see if you can get some help: No information after reboot: Soluto Support
I posted info for getting help with Soluto from the Soluto support folks, so give that a try.
i posted the question regarding the lack of info, on their forums…
Disconnect D: and Z:. Try booting with just your C: drive connected. From looking at your Disk Management image, I don't think it will boot as it looks like the D: drive is the Active drive. Not sure if you even have the required boot files on the C: drive. If it won't, you can boot the D: drive as you are doing now,
i am booting from drive c: (where like i said have all my files & folders & programs…
this is the drive where the mayor booting problem is… sometime close to an hour to boot…
on drive d: i only have xp professional installed…
& on drive z: i have only files… no os nor any other programs…
ok…
c: is my main hard dive, where i have all my files…
d: is my spare hard drive, the one i was using to connect & post on these posts, that is until i think it got infected also…
z: is my portable hard drive, the one i use to transfer large files from one hard drive to another…
i have xp professional x64 edition ver 2003 service pack 2 installed on c: & d:…
do you still want me to try this:
You need to show all files as follows:
Open Control Panel then Folder Options and click on the View tab.
Select "Show hidden files and folders"
Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" (click Yes when prompted)
Click Apply and OK
Now look at your C: drive. It should have these files in the root (C:\):
If they are not there you can copy then from D:.
Next, open Disk Management and see if you can make C: Active. If yes, then shutdown, disconnect D: and see if C: will boot now.
If you can't make C: active that way, you can do the following:
Boot your XP install CD
Enter R as soon as possible to get to the Recovery Console Command Prompt.
Type diskpart and press Enter.
Type list volume and press Enter. The only one listed should be your C: drive, which may or may not be listed as C:.
Type select volume # (# is the number in front of the XP boot drive, 0 1 2 …. Again, not necessarily C:.
Type active and press Enter. That will make the boot partition (volume) Active.
Remove the CD and reboot and see if C: boots now and how the boot time is.
I hope the instructions are clear. If not, please ask any questions and I'll try to make them better.
If the boot time still sucks then I think it's time to do a Clean Install of XP X64 on the C: drive after backing up your data. Do this with D: and Z: disconnected.
When you boot from D: it boots normally, right, no long delay? If so, that's why I'd like you to try booting with just your C: drive connected, see if the slow boot remains.
If it does then the problem is with the C: drive, either hardware or data/drivers/corruption and the only fix I can come up with is to do a Clean Install. Painful and time consuming but certainly better than waiting an hour for the computer to boot.
When you boot from D: it boots normally, right, no long delay? If so, that's why I'd like you to try booting with just your C: drive connected, see if the slow boot remains.
yes the problem has always been the c: drive…
so can we say with certainty that is not a virus, maleware or something like that?… that is in fact a drive, data or drivers corruption / problem etc…
what a bout the ""recycler virus"" i was told about?… is it real?… is it a virus or not?…
before i do a total clean install, i would like to be sure im not backing up anything that has a virus or something like that…
i been thinking on buying a new comp, & i just dont want to transferred something that is indeed infected…
If you backup just your data you should be okay, even if there is a virus.
If you'd like, have out malware gurus check it over before you do anything else, even though the Spybot folks have already looked. Maybe they will spot something that the others missed.
Go to the Spyware / Malware / Virus Removal forum, read the info there and follow the posted directions. Once you receive a clean bill of health, come back here if you have any additional questions or concerns or it turns out not to be a malware problem.
