Let me preface this with I don't reboot my windows machine very often (maybe once every ~3 months) and it's running windows xp sp2 32bit
I updated my video driver in hopes of improved performance in some games. I reboot my computer. Halfway into booting up I realize I have a new hard drive I've been meaning to put in so I power it off. I add in my e-sata bracket and hook it all up. I go to boot it up but my boot.ini is hosed. I boot from hiren's disk and edit my boot.ini and it works properly. I get in to windows and its trying to do a 5 phase chkdsk, you know the one that takes years. Well I was like fuck that, no way I can sleep through that noise. I reboot and quit the chkdsk and goto login. My credentials are accepted but as soon as I login and start loading personal settings, it starts the logging off procedure. This is true for every account on the machine in safe mode and not in safe mode. I tried some fix about userinit needing to be renamed (again, using dos4ntfs off the hiren disk) but that produced nothing. I haven't had any malware/viruses in years and noticed no strange behavior prior to this reboot. Any ideas?

[Edited on December 23, 2008 at 5:20 AM. Reason : .]

12/23/2008 5:13:31 AM

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"Halfway into booting up I realize I have a new hard drive I've been meaning to put in so I power it off."

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"Well I was like fuck that, no way I can sleep through that noise. I reboot and quit the chkdsk"

here are your problems

12/23/2008 2:36:15 PM

^there are your problems

12/23/2008 3:07:02 PM

The problems have been identified

12/23/2008 4:24:44 PM

I believe the causes your computer's malfunctions have been revealed

12/23/2008 5:11:41 PM

due to the diligent work of others, the maladies regarding your computing device have been exposed to God and all

12/23/2008 6:29:47 PM

ibtl

12/23/2008 6:50:10 PM

Hah

TWW, you're my hero.

12/23/2008 7:29:42 PM

noob

12/23/2008 10:48:45 PM

contrary to popular belief, windows is fairly stable. long story short something in the registry corrupted when I added another disk (fucked up the drive letters) and I had to repair somethings.

12/24/2008 12:23:08 AM

good thing the problems were identified

12/24/2008 12:24:42 AM

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"long story short something in the registry corrupted when I added another disk"

i am thinking this has something to do with the problems identified above

12/24/2008 1:55:08 AM

^is speaking the truth here
If this thread could have a shape, I think it would be a circle.

12/24/2008 11:14:23 AM

User error.

12/24/2008 5:04:27 PM

PEBKAC Error

12/24/2008 5:25:16 PM

The error lies perhaps juxtapositioned in betwixt said board of keys and four legged sitting device upon which the user of said board of keys has rested his posterior

12/24/2008 8:28:00 PM

this thread is a prime example of why i thoroughly enjoy the wolf web

12/25/2008 12:27:36 AM

i would read this thread again.

12/25/2008 12:47:26 AM

I read this thread again, enjoyed it, then I shared it, and enjoyed the ensuing laughter.

12/25/2008 3:22:27 AM