(note: i had to spell f0rmat with a zero because everytime I spelled it correctly, it would show it as ****)
Recently my computer wouldn't boot into windows. I tried numerous times, and even tried to boot into safe mode and it would just keep rebooting. I tried to fix the problem with Windows Recovery, but that didn't work as well. Where it usually tells you to choose which OS you want to restore, mine would just go strait to a C: prompt. NOT a C:WINDOWS prompt, just C:. I tried typing dir and an error came up saying "an error occurred during directory enumeration." I ran chkdsk /r, and it said the drive may have unrecoverable errors. Tried to do bootcfg/ rebuild, and it wouldn't work because it said it couldn't find windows. I rebooted again with the winxp cd and went through like I was going to install windows. When it showed my partitions, C: was an "unknown partition." All my other partitions were fine. (I have my computer partitioned into C,D,E,F,G drives) I tried to actually reinstall windows, and it wouldn't let me f0rmat the drive. So I go back into DOS and type f0rmat C: and it works. I go back into the setup program partition menu, now it is showing a regular partition. I chose to install it without f0rmating (since I just did it in DOS) So after the grueling task of reinstalling windows, I can go into windows now, yay! Now I notice that the load time for windows and programs is ridiculously slow . I install Comodo Firewall/BOclean, NOD32, Spybot, perfectdisk, Windows Cleanup! and regcleaner pro. I defrag all my drives, cleaned the registry, cleaned all unnecessary files (including prefetch), optimized my memory and my system, disabled unwanted services, ran a spybot check, ran a nod32 system diagnostic, went through msconfig, chose selective startup and unchecked everything, I ran disk check, I even ran bootvis in an attempt to shorten load times.
There are a couple things that I think could be the problem:
1. When my computer was working fine, windows was setup as a FAT32 partition with the label WINDOWS. When I tried to reinstall through the CD and it wouldn't let me f0rmat it, I had to go through DOS. So when I went back into the setup program with the newly formatted drive, I just installed without another format. Now windows is setup as a NTFS drive with no label. (I have since gave it a label on windows through disk management) I don't know if this would cause problem or not, but It something that is different from when my computer was working fine.
2. When I go into device manager, It shows that I have 2 drivers not installed, both of them under "Other devices." One is an ethernet controller, which I don't know what it is because I have my ethernet controller installed, and the other one is an "unknown device" which obviously I don't know what it is. these are the 2 things I can think of that would be causing all these problems.
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