Re: I Forced a Shut Down During a Memory Dump...

I ran a chkdsk and it said it repaired the disk and my BIOS is
correctly IDing and seeing the size on the disk now, so I think now it
IS a software issue. In Safe Mode, it is stopping after TDI.SYS and
rebooting. I can use the XP CD to get into the recovery console -
what can I do to fix it?
thanks!

On Dec 20, 7:11 pm, "Gerry" <ge...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recover your important data whilst you can.

Try running HD Tune(freeware).

Download and run it and see what it turns up.http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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mwie...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks all so far for your help - I think we're getting close:
UPDATE:
I removed the HD, opened it up and manually moved the arm back and
forth a few times (don't worry, I've been in HDs before and know to be
super careful). I closed everything back up and reconnected and now,
it no longer fails with a BOOT FAILURE, but in fact, begins to load
Windows, then shows a black screen with a progress bar along the
bottom, and then after the progress abr completes (approx 1 minute)
the system reboots. I restarted in Safe Mode and saw the last thing
to get loaded before the reboot occurs is TDI.SYS. What do I do
know? Could this be due to one of the things I tried was booting from
teh Win XP CD and it overwrote some SP2 files with the original
ones?
Thanks a bunch!

On Dec 20, 5:04 pm, db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. .
<databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote:
actually, it may be a bigger
problem than simply the
boot sector.

when you successfully boot
with the cd, the setup files
would then be installed onto
the hd.

if these primary files from
the cd can't be transferred
onto the hd, then the hd
has a serious problem.

it would seem equally impossible
to re install windows, repair windows
or install a parallel windows into
a different partition or folder, the
setup and installation files cannot
transfer onto the hd.

what you might want to do
is make it a slave drive and
see if possibly you can log
onto a master drive and then
access the corrupted slave,
at least to get your personal
files off of it.

if by chance you can see files
on the corrupted drive, then
let us know then we can take
a different route to help you.

you might also want to visit
the hd's homesite and see if
there is a utility to check the
state/validity of your hd.

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<mwie...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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OK, I have made my XP SP2 machine very angry.

Upon recently shutting down, I encountered a BSOD. Needing to leave
swiftly, I did not have time to wait for the entire "Dumping
memory...." so I went to the box and held the power button until the
machine shut down.

Bad idea.

Now, as soon as I turn it on, the motherboard is beeping at me
(sounds almost like a tune from an old video game) and a red
failure light is visible on the MB. It tries to detect the drives
and then I get a "BOOT DISK FAILURE." It allows me to boot from
CD, so I put in my XP installation CD and it starts loading all the
drivers. When it gets to the part about starting Windows, I get
another BSOD - error 0000007f.

So, what do I need to do to repair the messed up boot sector on my
HD? Is there a boot utility somewhere I can download and have it
boot from?

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