Re: Corrupted Partition and Continous Reboot problem
- From: "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:19:12 -0500
Chkdsk /F is the WRONG thing to do in your case. Chkdsk may fix
the errors, but in the course of doing that remove data. It's possible
the partition table is corrupt. I would stop all operations until a more
specific diagnosis can be made.
<gbozovic11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1133032542.330993.122720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Last night when I went to bed I left my computer running. This morning
> there was a blue screen of death. Unusal on this computer, since its
> about 1 month old, never happened before. I reboot the system (hard
> reboot). As soon as the computer and the Windows XP logo shows up, the
> computer reboots itself. Then I get to the safe boot mode, any boot
> option it will not work, as soon as it hits the Windows XP screen and
> starts loading, it reboots.
>
> 1) I took Win XP CD and booted to it, then went to repair/reinstall
> operating system option. At this screen it could see the hard disk, but
> could not recognize the partition without formating it.
> 2) I then booted to the XP recovery console. When I tried something
> like "dir" it would not allow me to saying access denied
> 3) I ran FIXMBR C: and nothing happened (no response)
> 4) I ran FIXBOOT, it said it could not identify the partitition, so it
> re-identified it as NTSF (which it is)
> 5) I am now running through chkdsk /r which is running through slowly
> (at 52%)
>
> The priority to save the priceless data on the hard disk, even if the
> hard disk went bad (although its new). I have priceless photos and
> documents that I spent years working on. Yes, I had backups but
> ironically two days ago I erased my DVD-RW with backup preparing to
> make a new backup this week (updated) Now its all on this disc that I
> cannot boot.
>
> The hard disk is a SATA WD 74gig 10,000RPM.
>
> Rest of the system is:
> Athlon64 4000+
> Asus A8N-SLI Premium MB
> 2gig Corsair XMS memory
> MSI NVIDIA 7800GTX
> Plextor 712 EIDE DVD-Writer
>
> It's Windows XP Pro (32-bit); the system is self-built, one month old,
> no other hardware was added last couple of days.
>
> I have another older computer (p4 1.8) with an 120gig EIDE disk. I
> could start backing stuff up, however I do not have a SATA interface on
> this computer. I could go to local computer store and pickup an
> interface.
>
> Please any help would be appreciated. Any course of action recommend
>
> Kind regards,
>
> George B.
>
.
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