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The only user account that will load is the Admin. All of the accounts with limited rights and the guest account will not load. It goes to a welcome screen and says it is loading your personal settings. It then says logging off and returns to the screen with the selection of accounts. I have...

I do have backup hard drives. If I make a clone using Nortons Ghost will that carry the problem over to another HD. What is the best way to transfer to another HD? I have all of my files and settings already running on another HD but I was hoping to find away where I dont have to reinstall...

bcastner and Linney, Your help is greatly appreciated. I have ran the manufacturers disk diagnostics utility and every test comes back good. At this time I am suspecting an bad registry hive as bcastner mentioned. The procedure you sent says it will not work on OEM versions. My Windows XP is...

If defrag is detecting that chkdsk is scheduled, any idea where it is finding the shceduled operation?

I got Windows to start. I have again disabled chkdsk from running by using chkntfs /x c: I have restarted several times now and all seems to be working. However, when I try to analyze disk using disk defrag, I get a message that chkdsk is scheduled to run. I have checked in scheduled tasks...

Thanks for all the tips. I was able to disable the chkdsk from starting but when I tried to defrag I was unable to because the volume was dirty. I ran chkdsk and this time if went through 5 steps (previously it was only going through 3 steps) After completing, it reported that volume was...

My OS is Windows XP Home (oem version), I keep my updates current as well as virus scans and ad aware scans. When booting up, the screen goes blue and I get a message stating that Windows needs to check my disk for consistency and then it runs chkdsk. It comes up clean then proceeds to start...

Linney, Thanks again for your help. I have managed to solve part of my problem. My file system is NTFS. I looked at the thread regarding drag and drop and it is not the same problem I am experiencing. Apparently in XP home ed. you have to go into safe mode and log in as admin. to access the...

linney, I don't know how to check permissions. I created both folders and have had no problem adding new files to either folder. So I assume I have full rights to all the folders. The problem folder was about 3gb, I know the contents of the folder was never moved, only the folder itself. The...

I am running windows xp, if I move a file or folder I can no longer open it. I get an error message stating "access denied". I can copy and paste to a new location without any problem. If I look at the proberties of the problem folder, it shows there are no files in it, however, the...

My internet options only has 5 tabs, the security tab is missing. It was there at one time but has disappeared. I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks!