hi all, i have installed windows XP SP2. upto that i am using sp1 which has very lil' problems. but when i installed sp2 i got lot of problems. i got lot of spywares which i cleaned with mcafee antispyware. since then windows is crashing. i updated once again. again it crashed n now i am unable to login. it boots upto the bootscreen n then restarts automatically. with f8 at OSs menu i tried all options. using LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION it boots upto the login screen n then restarts. i have 2 OS in my system winxp n win2k. i tried to update winxp from win2k. Booting from winxp cd also i tried to repair n reinstall. but it ask to format. i have lot of downloads pending n installed software n data, so without formatting is there any option to solve it? i don't want to format. plz help

Sounds like you are in abit of a mess ther my friend !!!!!!!!!! tell us how you have the rig configured, dual boot ??? Which partition is the xp on ? And which Partition is 2000 ON ? Did you try booting in safe mode and running system restore from there ?? IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

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Win XP SP2 broke applications all over the place, so at least take heart in being not alone. however, to analyze your many problems as best as my single-tasking brain can do: 1. spyware after SP2 is not the fault of SP2. As far as I know most attacks are still based upon XP code, not specifically SP code. 2. crashes most likely related to scars left on system files by malware. try "sfc/ scannow" at a command prompt. Use a registry checker to repair registry (in safe mode). 3. last known good configuration only works to restore the last time you successfully logged in. 4. crashing at the login screen indicates Master Boot Record is okay, but critical system files are damaged. Try booting to your WinXP c.d. as you did, but get to the recovery console and type "fixboot C:" 5. If you can get to your windows XP after this, check the Data Execution Prevention setting. control panel>system>advance>performance settings>data execution prevention the upper radio button should be selected, i.e. turned on for essential windows programs.

Sometimes this helps. If you have trouble with sp2 after installing boot to the safe mode and go to the boot.ini file in C: drive, Open properties and uncheck the read only box. Then open the file with notepad. Look for /noexecute=optin. Change it to /noexecute=AlwaysOff. This has worked for me as drwtsn.exe file has stopped the loading at the desktop http://computervitals.com/