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If anyone can take a look at the above and tell me how the hell to fix my system, I’d be most grateful.
Details: I was preparing for my trip to New Mexico and needed more room for music to take with me, so I torched my Linux partition and reformatted it NTFS, mounting it in the “My Music” folder of my profile. I wasn’t thinking too far ahead and forgot that the Grub stage 1.5 and config files were on the Linux partition, so I had effectivly nuked my boot loader as well, turning my laptop into a brick.
I attempted to use Vcom’s “Fix-It Utilities” to repair the damage with no luck (hint: their software is junk).
I eventually restored a working boot loader by reinstalling a minimal Mandrake installation. This installed Lilo, which recongized my Windows install. My first boot into Windows went right in as I had shut down by “hibernating”. However on my frist attempt to do a full shutdown and restart of windows, it died. It gives me the boot logo screen with the scrolling bar, then the screen goes black and the system locks up. I’ve attempted to do a “safe mode” startup, which gives me the text mode display of all the drivers it loads, but it locks up just after “loading agp440.sys”. I know from experience that this means agp440.sys loaded succesfully and the problem is something AFTER this point. However, finding nothing else useful in the MS knowledge base, I went with what it suggested anyway and used recovery console to disable agp440.sys. This had no effect.
The above is my boot log from my last attempt to boot.
I HAVE successfully reinstalled XP into a new directory, but it is a (ahem) less than legit CD key, does not have my user profile and none of my software. Since the CD key is bogus, I can’t go through Windows Update. I’d like to have my fully legitimate XP Pro working with all my installed software and user profile.