Windows XP stuck at logo screen

I turned off the iMac for about 30 minutes, and then restarted the machine, and it seemed to have fixed itself and Windows XP booted up without any problems and I was able to eject the Windows XP boot disk.

Yesterday I started to have problems booting from Windows XP. It would get stuck at the Windows XP logo screen. I would power down and then start the machine again, it would give me several options to boot, and I would select the last configuation that worked, but it still got stuck at the Windows XP logo screen. Even putting the Windows XP boot disk in did not help, the disk just got stuck in the drive. I tried several times, then left the machine off for about 30 minutes, than tried again, and it booted OK.

I thought it might be the Chinese Data Entry software that I just installed that might have caused the problem, so I uninstalled the software, still the same problem persisted. Eventually after trying several times, and waiting for about 30 minutes, it was OK again.


I think I have to restore Windows from backup back to a point where it booted OK, but I have to first of all be able to boot into Mac OS, which means I have to be able to boot into Windows XP first in order to switch. So it is like a catch 22 situation. Shall I just keep trying till I can boot successfully from Windows XP.

What can I do in future if I am stuck with Windows XP not booting successfully?

Thanks

I have got the same problem again

I continue to have "problems" with Windows XP Startup on my iMac.

I restored my XP back to the point when it last booted without any problem. It then booted without any problem. Then when I restart or shut down and boot again, I am stuck at the XP logo screen again, and I have to power off and start again, choosing to use the last good configuration. I have turned on the switch to generate the boot log file, but it does not appear to have logged anything for the sessions when it did not boot up, but only logged information for the sessions when I chose the last good configuration.

So I am at a loss as to the cause of the problem. I suspect it is some interaction between XP, Boot Camp and the iMac, but I just cannot pinpoint where the cause is and fix it. Somehow some of the values for the XP Control Sets are not quite right or settings are not saved properly when Windows XP is shut down.

Would appreciate any help or suggestions from anyone who has similar problems

Yes, I do have a WD external drive plugged in which I use for backup of my hard drive for Apple OS X, as well as back up of my Windows partition using Wincloe.

So you are suggestinjg that I should:

1. Unplug the WD external drive
2. Boot up Windows XP
3. Plug back the WD external drive
4. Update the firmware of the WD external drive

Then it should boot up every time while the ED drive is plugged in.

Hi,

I did what you suggested and it solved my problem. In any case, my WD external drive is used for backup of both the Mac partition as well as the Windows partition running under Mac OS X, so I really do not need to turn it on when booting into Windows.

Thanks very much.

Alex.

Hi,

Thanks very much for your similar suggestion for disconnecting the external WD drive when booting Windows. It solved my problem.

Alex.