XP hangs druing black boot screen

Hi,

I am having problems running windows XP Home,
I only get as far as the Black Loading screen, then hangs forever,

If i try and boot into safe mode it works fine, but safe mode with networking doesnt work either.

Prior to this problem another harddrive was put into the pc, to copy some files accross, this worked fine, and the harddrive has now been removed.
I am getting a message in safemode about xmasbus.sys, which i think belongs to Alcohol 120%

Ihave a Geforce 2, AMD XP 1800+

I dont have a network card, only use dialup modem.


Could this be causing it?
Can i repair the startup from Safe Mode?

Thanks
Richard

Welcome to the forums.
You might want to try installing the Recovery Console from the 2K CD, and running FIXMBR [device], device being your boot drive. It should be something like Device\HardDisk0

Just run the repair from the XP CD