From: bsoerhei@nixspam.online.no   
      
   I got a booting problem on my Acer Xp-machine that I don't understand,   
   and I have had for over half a  year. Which has led me to abandon the   
   machine for most of the time, since it is almost impossible to get   
   through.   
      
   It may have something to to with the boot disk being almost full? It   
   is a 200 Gb disk, and when the problem started it had maybe less than   
   2Gb free, even 1Gb. The exact number, I'm not shure of. Currently I   
   had about 10 Gb space when I last booted, and have been able to remove   
   3 more since then.   
      
   I'm keeping the machine on for a week at a time, thus avoiding the   
   booting process, cause it's a real pain trying to boot. Once it's up   
   and running there is no problems at all it seems, rock steady. So why   
   is it so hard to boot?   
      
   What happens when I try to boot is this:   
   -Going through BIOS ok,   
   -Windows start up image showing, loging in,   
   -Windows final background with icons coming up partly - but   
   having come partly through the number of icons showing up one after   
   the other slowly, about 10-20 seconds or earlier into this process, it   
   crashes then tries to reboot!   
      
   The system then gets into the blue screen and wants to check the file   
   system for consequence. It does not seem to have any bad effect to   
   skip this process by my choice (as it takes a whole 10 minutes), but I   
   do it once in a while to 'clean up' the disk.   
   I have to do this partly booting cycle up to 20-30 times before the   
   system is able to boot properly. Sometimes I just give up and abandon   
   it. I have gotten into the habit of being very quick to log in as I   
   have possibly found a connection of being fast in this process and a   
   successful boot. With the progressing number of boot tries, there   
   seems to be a slowly (but slightly erratic) increasing number of   
   seconds into the process of icons appearing. Once you get pst 30-40   
   seconds into the icons, a successful booting will ensue. But as   
   mentioned, this may take 20-30 tries or more!   
      
   An added problem is that I have a second disk attached, and going   
   through this constant rebooting, I'm fairly nervous this whole thing   
   may wreck that disk. Another reason to avoid it all.   
   I have removed many icons, putting them into folders, but the problem   
   persists. It is possible this has diminished the problem, but not   
   shure about that..   
   I have also removed most of the elements of the automatic start up   
   programs in the Boot-folder.   
      
   Any suggestions to what is going on here and a remedy for it?   
      
   Bjørn Sørheim   
      
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