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I had this problem - turned out something had gone weird with my usb ports. Unplugged my usb devices and rebooted. All was fine.


Glad I'm not the only one to have this issue. I wonder what triggers it, as my gaming laptop no longer boots right unless any USB storage device I have is unplugged. Normally I keep a portable drive attached to it for CD images instead of taking my CDs to LAN parties.

Mine started doing it when I went to uninstall betas of .Net 2.0 for the final, and of course I blamed the betas and not the USB drive. Only by chance did I unplug the drive later andfind that was the problem, after wasting a few hours on the issue and ranting here.