SERIOUS HDD PROBLEM - NUKED XP - CAN'T GET WINDOWS GOING A..

My C: drive has dropped plenty of bad sectors and much of XP went down the
drain with them. I have an identical (32GB) D: with some program and data
files on it that could be either sacrificed or copied to my 200GB E: drive
but none of this can be achieved without resurrecturing XP enough to A) See
the D/E: drives and B) shift the files around so I can get the remainder of
XP across to the replacement (D drive.

I've been through the Repair Install procedure as detailed by MS-MVP Michael
Stevens, including the link to Charlie White's article "Windows XP Crashed"
and the additional suggestions from MVP Alex Nichol, all to no avail.

When following Charlie White's process, I get to PART 2 where it's time to
reboot into W/XP and, after I enter the Administrator's password, the system
says it's loading personal settings and, after a pause, says it's logging
off - back to the log in screen.

I've tried to get into Safe Mode but get the same problem.

Is there any other magic I might use to at least get my Xp running enough to
get the stuff of the C: drive before I bury it?

My biggest concern is wiping out my Outlook mail file and other
documents/pics, etc that might get lost, not to mention going through a
clean install and the time/pain involved with that.

Can anybody offer assistance resolving this disaster?

Thanks in advance,
Geoff

"GeoffWHere" <gumboot.RemoveThis@shiftmail.com> wrote in message
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> My C: drive has dropped plenty of bad sectors and much of XP went down the
> drain with them. I have an identical (32GB) D: with some program and data
> files on it that could be either sacrificed or copied to my 200GB E: drive
> but none of this can be achieved without resurrecturing XP enough to A)
See
> the D/E: drives and B) shift the files around so I can get the remainder
of
> XP across to the replacement (D drive.
>
> I've been through the Repair Install procedure as detailed by MS-MVP
Michael
> Stevens, including the link to Charlie White's article "Windows XP
Crashed"
> and the additional suggestions from MVP Alex Nichol, all to no avail.
>
> When following Charlie White's process, I get to PART 2 where it's time to
> reboot into W/XP and, after I enter the Administrator's password, the
system
> says it's loading personal settings and, after a pause, says it's logging
> off - back to the log in screen.
>
> I've tried to get into Safe Mode but get the same problem.
>
> Is there any other magic I might use to at least get my Xp running enough
to
> get the stuff of the C: drive before I bury it?
>
> My biggest concern is wiping out my Outlook mail file and other
> documents/pics, etc that might get lost, not to mention going through a
> clean install and the time/pain involved with that.
>
> Can anybody offer assistance resolving this disaster?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Geoff
>
>
>


Replace the drive with a new one, then reload Windows.

After Windows is installed on the new drive, slave your defective drive to
the machine
and try to copy over all the data you want to save.
You may possibly have to take ownership of your "My Documents" folder