Flashing dash on startup

[Louis]

I have XP Home. The flashing dash on startup sometimes hangs and I have to
re-boot. How do I fix?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Press F8 during the startup and choose the bootlog option. Restart, and read
the NTBTLOG.TXT file in the system32 folder. You may discover file that is
hanging.
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Mark L. Ferguson



"Louis" wrote:

> I have XP Home. The flashing dash on startup sometimes hangs and I have to
> re-boot. How do I fix?

 

[Louis]

I pressed F8 and chose the bootlog option. I restarted and my pc rebooted
without hanging on the flashing dash. It did not give me the opportunity to
read NTBLOG.TXT file. How do I get to that file and what do I look for within
that file. Thanks

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Press F8 during the startup and choose the bootlog option. Restart, and read
> the NTBTLOG.TXT file in the system32 folder. You may discover file that is
> hanging.
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>
>
> "Louis" wrote:
>
> > I have XP Home. The flashing dash on startup sometimes hangs and I have to
> > re-boot. How do I fix?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

start/run, type:
NTBTLOG.TXT

The last entry might show you something, assuming you can get it to error
during boot once.
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"Louis" wrote:

> I pressed F8 and chose the bootlog option. I restarted and my pc rebooted
> without hanging on the flashing dash. It did not give me the opportunity to
> read NTBLOG.TXT file. How do I get to that file and what do I look for within
> that file. Thanks
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
> > Press F8 during the startup and choose the bootlog option. Restart, and read
> > the NTBTLOG.TXT file in the system32 folder. You may discover file that is
> > hanging.
> > --
> > helpful? click "Yes" button. Voting helps the web interface.
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...g=microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
> > Mark L. Ferguson
> >
> >
> >
> > "Louis" wrote:
> >
> > > I have XP Home. The flashing dash on startup sometimes hangs and I have to
> > > re-boot. How do I fix?