- 05
- Dec
Well 
Yea, that’s how long it is taking for my system to boot. I’m already .5 gig short off my RAM. And I think even the remaining .5 is about to DIE. 
The system has become dead slow. Today when I started the system, i took 37 minutes to boot. It stuck at the loading XP screen. After that, I received the error saying Windows cannot find the locally stored profile. Then it said that Windows is loading a temporary profile and that changes made will not be saved ( 
). I finally see my desktop. But hey wait, its not mine ( 
). SHIT.!! Everything’s gone. All customizations are nowhere to be seen.
What could have gone wrong ?
/////Edit:
Update 1: If I try to start any installed software, everything is taking upwards of 300 seconds to show up. ( 
) Add to that, all the softwares are behaving as if I’m running them for the first time
December 5th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Reinstall Windows
December 5th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Time has arrived to reinstall windows
December 6th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Yup.. Reinstall Windows..
December 6th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Yep
Did that already
I lost everything on my C Drive
Even the 1 hour Video I had captured for a client from his Handycam. Shit, I’m screwed !
December 7th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Next time, leave your antivirus on! I don’t think its any problem with your RAM. i think you got a virus from somewhere.
the only solution is to re-install windows… or you can try booting from a linuxdefender live cd and cleaning out all viruses before booting in windows.
if you don’t want to loose any data in windows partition, attach your harddisk in a friend’s computer(with an updated antivirus running) and copy all the important stuff in his harddisk.. thats how we save data in the hostel.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Well dude, I have not 1 but TWO Antiviruses running. Symantec Corporate Client and Avast Antivirus. Both updated to the latest. I even had Spybot S&D plus Ad-aware SE Professional.
Anywez, I already re-installed both Windows and Linux ( 6.10 Yayy )
None of the people I know in Mumbai have a SATA supporting Mobo, so I cudnt backup. I lost data, but only the one which was on C: Drive.
December 8th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Preshit,
What was the last thing you installed? You can do a rollback or System restore and everything should be fine
December 8th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
December 8th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Already did a re-install man
What ?
December 8th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
37 seconds is not too long
December 8th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Seconds ??
Did you even read it ??
Seconds ?? Come on Dude. It clearly says MINUTES !!
December 9th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
u sure its taking minutes ??? coz it feels like that when the amount of RAM decreases a lot.