What if your problem isn't with the system rather than with your hard disk. I had problem with a HP laptop way back i problem reinstalling windows because it kept giving me the blue screen. then i...

what kind of memory stick was on your motherboard ddr1 or ddr 2 or sd ram what was the speed if it was a ddr2 533 or ddr 400 and was the memory stick you bought the same at that of the motherboard...

did you try the 'net user admin *' command

What have you installed that starts up when you windows logons and what video and audio plugins and codecs have you placed?

It seems you have alot of things which you are loading at startup that is why it's taking so long. use the run dialog and type 'msconfig'(without the qoutes) you will get to the system configuration...

Did you change the jumper of the 2nd hard drive to master or slave and by guessing you installed the 2nd hard disk the system which jumper did you use on it.

does the motherboard support the 320gb hard drive and when you remove the seagate drive does it work porperly

first of all is your motherboard compatible with the hard drive coz in most cases it might be overworking causing the stalling

Can you try entering in safemode to see whether you can go to scandisk or have a registry repair software which you can run.

Me i would use mini pe live cd as it has all the utilities neede to...

You could be having a virus call New Pe_Heur virus which clears up your desktop and renders your system useless. The best thing is to get a MINI PE or a UBCD to try and partition and move your data...

could be your registry is corrupt can u try and fix it and see what happens

That is a virus call 'New PE Heur' Virus which can be detected by nod32 antivirus it creates new folder by the type is stated to be an application so i would advice you to get a hard disk that has...

Download a software called unlocker it checks what processed are running on the file and can dive you the option to either delete the file or kill the process

Try this when you are at the logon screen press ctrl+alt+del as many time as possible you will get a dialog logon screen. On the user text box type 'Administrator' (without the '') and Press Enter no...