Tag: xp

  • Windows endless loop of CHKDSK

    Symptom: You schedule a chkdsk before rebooting a Windows machine (can be Windows XP or any flavor of Server 2003, possibly others as well) it appears to run through the chkdsk successfully, then reboots again and continues the cycle, continuously running chkdsks on startup, but never getting up to Windows.  Sometimes the Windows splash screen…

  • Installing LLTD on XP SP3

    If you have WIndows XP SP3 and you try to install the Microsoft hotfix to install the Link Layer Topology Discovery service, you’ll get an immediate error message saying: “Setup has detected that the Service Pack version of this system is newer than the update you are applying.  There is no need to install this…