It could be possible norton deleted a "needed" system file whenever u uninstalled it.....Norton is good, but it integrates into your system and pretty much takes over.

JAM SIKO

Try last known good config, then windows repair

First of let me tell you this, these forums are fabulous, much learned info here, two thumbs up to all that have answered people with issues, glad to see there is still some good in the world! :mrgreen:


Now as for the problem, i bet it was Norton, I don't think it fully uninstalled and i think adding AVG just made it more complicated. I have tried to use the last know, but like others here on the forums, it just keeps rebooting no matter which one i select. The blue screen flies by and no way to tell what it could be saying. As for the repair, do i need the windows CD that came with the machine or can i use another windows ( both XP) the reason, his CD is a day away and I would have to go get it.

Any more help on this would so much be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Rabbitrob

Most virus creators have designed their virus to take over your Norton. To save many weeks of headaches you might want to take the loss & start from scratch. Much faster & you'll be happy with a smooth running computer.

OMG I cant believe it! Ok, first off, thanks everyone for suggestions and all.

The system is back up and running, heres what I did:


As suggested, i took the HDD from the broken PC and installed it into my computer as the slave, assuming I would be able to take the needed files off of the HDD before I reinstalled Windows. When I started my system up, my Windows XP fixed the issues the other "slave" HDD had and then my system booted up after making the scans. I then shut down my system and changed the slave HDD back to master and reinstalled it back into the other machine. To make sure things were ok, i booted up in safe mode, it went thru the normal lines, it then stopped as it had been doing, then after about 5 seconds, it booted up normally into safe mode. I then checked out things in my msconfig, made sure nothing from Norton was going to reload and restarted the machine normally.

Booooooom! Up it went flawlessly and I am able to make backups, just in case i ever need to reinstall Windows on this machine( learned my lesson )


Here is a bit of info about the two machines:

Both are Emachines

My model is a newer one, but both run XP

The master HDD is 80 gig ( my machine)
The Slave HDD is 40 gig ( The HDD with the issues)

I hope the others in this wonderful forum read this and they can try this out with the same sussess.

Once again, I so much appreciate all that poted here and "great job" to the people that have this forum(s) up and runnign with tons of helpful information!

Rabbitrob

Congrats. all computers have minds of their own & require new & sometimes very weird teqniques to fix them. it's always a joy to figure them out.