Unable to logon and activate

My PC strated blue-screening on boot following an aborted (power loss) during a system restore. I successfully ran a system repair and managed to boot to the logon screen as normal.

At this point I am told the system needs to be reactivated. Problem is when I select any user to log on in order to activate, the user screen starts to appear but then logs off again.

Same problem in safe mode "you must activate but can't in safe mode restart in normal mode ".

Administrator is the same both safe and normal mode.

Catch 22 I need to activate but can't logon to activate!!!!!!!!!!!

Helllllllllllllppppppppp

 

I think you may have some other problem in addition to the Activation issue and it is causing the reboot.

Try pressing the f8 key repeatedly at boot up and getting the Advanced Boot Options screen. Select to item that disables reboot on system failure. Then reboot normally. This may allow you to at least get an error message to help define the problem better.

 

The machine doesn't actually reboot on failure, it just returns to the welcome screen

 

Did you do an actual Repair Install? If not, do so. With multiple issues it will be hard to repair the system by troubleshooting individual issues when system files are missing or damaged.

As a grasp at a straw, you could run chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console.

 

Dytrog

-------What is your OS

 

XP Home

 

do you have a full version cd ? or a startup floppy. you can do a clean install if you have full version and p/n if you have full version you don't have to do a full install. i think you can do a update not a new install. i keep full xp and floppy's for 98 se and xp. to help my kid's friends