Well, you know billy boy had to get someone, read on...

Last Saturday I did a clean install of a virgin (un-patched) WinXP MSDN using a blue list PID 640 key. Installation went fine.System ran great all weekend, Then last night (Monday) I decided to try SP1 1078.

Files verified when unpacking and installed with no prob and when the time was right I rebooted. And here is what I got...

...The procedure entry point AssocIsDangerous could not be located in the dynamic link library SHLWAPI.dll...

All I could do was click 'ok' Boink!...

...The login interface DLL msgina.dll failed to load. Contact your local administrator...

Uhm, that would be me.

Safe mode does the same thing. Last know good...also does no good.

Fair enough, I was half expecting trouble and had copied the stuff I needed from my Cdrive before I installed MSDN so this wasn't that big a deal...

Untill I decided to reboot from the MSDN Format C, and reinstall. MSDN will NOT BOOT, the loading procedure says it's looking for boot record from CDrom,waits a few seconds and then continues to boot fron the HD.

So I try the good old 'Devil' copy. Reboot sees this and goes into "Windows in now checking your hardware" and the screen goes BLACK,waits about 3 minutes, reboots and does the same thing over and over and...

Super ERD disc is seen as bootable and says "ok" and sits there saying 'OK' Same with Norton Syswrks.

Fortunatley I have Win2K lying around and it BOOTS! And INSTALLS! I figure, "OK, I'm home now! Lets do a clean install of XP Devil (after confirming MSDN still wont 'boot')" Same deal, gets to the checking hardware and dies!

So, lets boot into 2K and just do a 'full' install from the CD. (forgeting that this will create a dual boot system) It copies all of the files to beging installation, reboots and, you guessed it, BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH. Only now I have a freakin' dual boot system with Win2K (which works) and a beautiful BLACK SCREEN XP PRO!

Can you say ARGAHARAGHARAGAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've come to the conclusion that SP1 realy messed my MBR up. Why 2K boots but nothing else is does is beyond me but the bios seems ok so repair MBR is the only thing I can think of.

After that it's write zeros to HD with Western Digital 'tool kit'. But I'm not sure if that will wipe MBR and let me reinstall HD from scratch.

Any suggestions?


:( :( :(

you may need to do a "low level" format. that should clean everything up. you can d/l good low level formater from maxtor's site.

Use PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 and make an image before you do anything dramatic. Saves a lot of hand wringing. Gets you back where you were, pronto



Last edited by rikytik at Jul 23 2002, 03:27 PM

hello... excuse me but what is "MSDN" and what is "PID 640 key" , please can somebody explain,,

MSDN - Microsoft Developement Network

PID 640 key - The Key that shows microsoft that you have a authorized copy of XP when trying to do updates .. If you have a key that is not 640 you will not be able to update, Which I can't see why anyone would want to anyhow.

hmm, if win2k will install (same kernel base) i don't see why xp won't, boot to dos, do a fdisk /mbr to try to repair the master boot record, or go to the win2k recovery console and do a fixboot and fixmbr , that will write a new boot sector and mbr to the drive, i still don't see why it won't boot from the msdn cd though, if repairing the boot sector and the mbr don't work, lemme know and i'll see what else i can come up with

Can't boot from Win9x/ME start disc, so can't do fdisk /mbr. Ran fixmbr and fixboot from 2K recovery console. Still can't boot from ANY XP CD! Only thing I can boot from is Win2k CD/floppies.

After runing fixboot/mbr I can no longer run my Western Digital 'disctools'! I now get a "devide error' after it boots into dos. ?!?!?!?!? I was going to just write 'zeros' for a low level format and now I'm locked out of that!

ARGARGARGHHAGH!

I do NOT like SP1 1078 :angry:

If 2K Boots from CD, why not do a full format of your c:\ drive. This should write over the boot sector.

Can't you even boot from a Win9x startup disc and FDisk?

Althernativley, if you have another hard drive, set that as the Primary Master and the other as a Slave, use a CD/disk to boot, and wipe the Secondary (low level) hard drive which would be your faulty one.

HTH.

Format C will not create new mbr. I *do* have another HD with XP installed and I just may have to put it back in so I can wipe the trouble one.

I'm moving this thread to hardware support as recovering my drive is now the main point.

Also, I resized some partitions last night before running fixboot/mbr this may explain my 'devide error'. I'll look into this when I get home.

Hmm ... I don't understand why 98boot disk won't work, it should.