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Hours to boot into safe mode Win XP sp3

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Win XP Pro running on a 10 year old Dell Dimension.

Ran fine until I plugged in my SD card reader from my camera. SD card produced 3 instances of "full" drives: G;H; & I. Even though there were very few pics on the card (I could scroll through on the camera).

I decided to delete the "extra" drives in device manager. (But left my HDD alone)
Since then, XP boots to a black screen, and IF I can get it to boot to safe mode; it takes HOURS.

If I ever get into safe mode (still waiting) someone suggested uninstalling the USB host controllers.
These will be re-created next time XP starts (yes?)

I will re-format the SD card before I try it again. It must have been plugged into too many different systems, and been assigned a new drive letter each time.

Thx

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