Windows won't boot up

[gd253]

I just had an annoying Windows XP Pro problem, it wouldn't boot up. It was stuck on the windowpane part of the bootup sequence. I shut down several times, tried to reboot and it still wouldn't get past that screen. I haven't come across this problem before.

Luckily I'd listened to TTR talking about backups a couple of weeks ago and after the show I bought Avanquest Drive Image (I usually use Ghost) and immediately did a backup of everything. I restored an image last night and it worked a treat.

So thanks guys for the timely reminder!! Everyone, make sure you do your backups!

[Dr Ron]

Glad you had your backups done GD!

Did you try to boot into Safe Mode? Hit F8 for a boot menu just before that 'Windows loading...' screen.