Hi, my Lenovo laptop won't allow me to logon to desktop. WinXP start normally up to the point of welcome screen where I can click my user name, then the usual message "loading personal settings" appeared but NOTHING happen. The user icon appear again. I've tried the F8 safe mode and restore to last know configuation settings, but only upto the same point in the Welcome screen. Also, I've tried to recover the laptop through "dos" but it ask me to login as Administrator or User in the welcome screen, again, same thing happen, got stuck in the welcome screen again. Since this laptop doesn't have CD-rom, I can't re-install the win XP in the normal way. Any suggestion? Thanks
What were the most recent software or hardware installs? Please be very specific. In safe mode, run your antivirus software and see what it picks up. Cheers.
If some of your system files are corrupted, the computer will sometimes hang during startup. In order to fix file corruption you need to run a scandisk (with the boxes to fix errors checked) on the hard drive. In your case (no cd rom) you might have to remove your hard drive and use a "USB 2.0 to SATA + IDE (2.5 / 3.5 / 5.25") Cable Adapter to hook it up onto the usb plug of a working computer, from there you can run a scandisk. That's the first thing I would do to try and fix it.
I haven't install any new software or hardware to the machine, all i've done was adding the machine to my home wireless network through the "Home network wizard", at the end of the wizard, it ask me to re-start the computer to take effect. After clicking "Yes" to re-start the laptop, the problems occur as the topic. I can't login to desktop even in Safe mode, it asked me to select the user or administator in the welcome screen. Is there a way to run anti-virus even not in desktop? I do have the latest Norton Anti-virus installed in the machine. Cheers
I think the OS is installed in the Solid State Disk, I'm not sure whether I can take it out and connect it to a working PC? Plus I don't have any cable adapter for SSD to usb. I do have the WinXP cd with the laptop and I don't mind to format the machine and start from scratch, but with out a cd-rom, how can i do that?
Have you tried pressing F11 while booting? what model is this.. most lenovo machines have a built in recovery system but accessing it varies by model.
The model is Lenovo S9. i've tried pressing F11 while booting, but nothing happen. This model does have a recovery button to press for recovery, but it only work after window xp start. Cheers
I can't find any solution... I would boot to prompt not starting windows at all.. then navigate to C:\RRTmp and run the restore function from the exe there maybe? I forget.. head full of solaris today.. how to get stupid windows to show a boot menu. F8?.. then select "prompt with networking"? timing is everything What a half baked idea considering windows must be the most unstable and fragile OS there is.. a recovery system for windows which requires windows to start to run it... really??.. Was somebody on drugs the day they thought that one up?
that doesn't sound right. The recovery module has to load BEFORE the operating system, otherwise the files would be locked that it needs to overwrite. Try pressing that button as soon as you turn on the computer many times until you see the recovery screen.
Not necessarily. had a good read of the lenovo help and forums and this is common stupidity from IBM.. boot to prompt and chkdsk /f ?? http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/08/12/lenovo-does-one-button-recovery-work/
I've tried the prompt idea before, by pressing F8 and enter the safe mode with prompt, but same thing happen. Upto the welcome screen and require me to select user or admin, but couldn't get pass that neither. Any other suggestion?
Tried that as well, keep pressing the recovery button once the machine is turned on... and again at every 1sec interval, but the window just booting up to the welcome screennnnnnnnnnn. I really want to screammmmm...
