Re: XP media center reinstall didn't complete, now what do I do?!

"Haybound" wrote

I recently installed a tv tuner that was not compatible with wmc. I
uninstalled it, purchased the correct WinTV PVR 150, but this wouldn’t work
properly. I was told by Haupaugh to reinstall xp. I’ve run the diagnostics in
setup and everything passed. Now my concern is recovering my files. Is there
a way I can do this? I have a Windows XP Pro disk that I intended to install
in a different partition, but I get a message saying I’m already in the
process of upgrading Windows, do I want to continue? I also have a portable
hard drive with Windows installed connected to this pc.. Can I somehow boot
off of it and save my files, then clean install XP Pro? Dell support has
provided no help at this point. Thanks for your reply!

"Rock" wrote:

"Haybound" wrote

> XP media center reinstall didn't complete, now what do I do?! I have a > 1
> year
> old Dell XPS600 that came with Windows Media Center pre-installed. I > tried
> reinstalling Windows Media from the cd-rom supplied, but it didn’t
> complete.
> There were about 50 files that couldn’t be found and now all I get is a
> blue
> screen with the error message “Stop: c0000221 {bad image checksum} The
> image
> ntvdm.exe is possibly corrupt”. What do I do now? TIA

This could be due to a bad/damaged CD, dirty CD reader, problems with memory
or the hard drive. Why were you trying to reinstall in the first place?
Also have you contacted Dell tech support?

It's a good idea to backup files. Of course you should not be in the position of needing to do this now. It should have been done before trying the recovery, and having a full and complete backup at _all_ times is essential.

There are several options open to you for this. One is to put the drive as a slave drive in another XP or Windows 2000 computer and copy the important data.

Another option, if the computer has two CD drives one of which is a burner, or one CD and you have a thumb drive with enough capacity to hold all the backed up data, is to download a Linux distro called Knoppix. This will create a bootable CD. Boot from it and copy the data to the thumb drive or burn it to CD. If you want more info on how to do this in Linux post back and maybe Malke will see it and respond.

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Rock [ MVP User/Shell]

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