4) The start-up process then stalls and hangs, the login screen is never displayed. 5) There is also NO response to pressing (CTRL-ALT-DEL) multiple times in an effort to reach the text based login screen. --. The problem is very similar to what happens when the Windows system drive LETTER inadvertently changes, such that Windows cannot find Possibly looking at what is listed under the tabs will give a clue on what is causing the black screen. Not sure if you checked the winlogon registry key but make sure the key has a value of Update on how to change "partition ID" drive letter without using a "boot corrector". If you boot up your xp computer (after a restoration) and windows xp hangs at the logon screen, and resetting the "mounted devices"drive letters doesn't fix it. Do the following. Make a bartpe bootcd with the "driveimage xml" plugin. The "Welcome to Windows Setup" screen never came up. I was thinking about applying FDISK to the new 500GB drive, and formatting out the errors on the hard drive, but I cannot do that since I cannot terminate the Setup process. I feel stuck in a bad situation where I cannot get into DOS to FDISK and FORMAT my C: drive. Pls help! Thanks! -Windows won't start up. It gets stuck at welcome screen. -The mouse and keyboard are working. -CTRL+ALT+DEL not working-In safe mode the same.-Removing the HDD and copying registries SECURITY, SYSTEM, SAM, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT from an early snapshot into \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG not working either. Computer stuck in Windows XP logo boot screen Hi, After running Lavasoft Adaware, Spybot, and a couple of anti-virus programs, using "The Ultimate Boot Cd.", I am no longer able to get the laptop to boot normally -- it just stays in the Windows XP logo boot screen. Windows XP machine normally hangs on "Applying Personal Settings" If windows tries to create a paging file on NTFS Volume. This issue might be true if following are the reason as well. You use the Welcome screen to log on to the system. You have a network share mapped to a drive letter. The network share has been made available offline. 1) Click on Start, Click on Control Panel. 2) Double-click on Add or Remove Programs. 3) Find the Network Associates or McAfee product listed and click on it. It should look similar to the following. 4) Click on Change/Remove. 5) You'll see a screen similar to the one below. So i put a computer together this summer, I went to the AMD/Microsoft "tech tour" and purchased an Asus A8N-E socket 939 mobo with Athlon 64 bit processor and Windows XP64 Pro. I then bought a Fix #3: Boot into Safe Mode and update Driver Software. Boot into Windows Safe Mode first by pressing F8 repeatedly after you restarted your computer. After you select “Safe Mode” from the Options menu, follow these steps: Go to the Start Task Manager by right-clicking on the task bar. Go to the Processes tab of this Manager. iAsd.