Re: Windows XP Failure - Hardware, Software or Virus?
- From: "peterk" <peterk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:40:29 -0600
Actually, you may be able to avoid much of the drama by examing the existing
Boot.ini. The problem may be that it is not referring to the correct
location of the windows installation.
Boot to a command prompt and type the following
This can be done with a 98 boot disk or if you made one an XP disk
Copy boot.ini boot.bak - to make a backup
(if you get in trouble type "copy boot.bak boot.ini" to restore)
attrib -h -r -s boot.ini
to make the file editable
then type
edit boot.ini
under the heading [operating systems]
you'll see something like default
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
might be a little difficult to figure out where the mistake is, but multi 0
means the primary controller, disk (0) is always (0), rdisk is the physical
disk number, and the partition is the partition number.(beginning at 1, not
0)
Basically if windows is on the first partition of your only hard disk, it
should be multi 0, disk0,rdisk0,part1
and if you installed on d, it'll mean the partition value is 2. (Unless
thats a second disk, then the rdisk value is 1, and partition is also 1)
once you have made changes, press alt, f and x to exit
hope this helps
peterk
--
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about
the problem
"robh" <robh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1B2D248D-791F-4A7E-9E8B-929F83577082@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> Im currently in the process of bringing my PC back from the brink. St
> present I am unable to boot because a system32/hal.dll is not present.
> Before
> this I was unable to boot without seeing a blue screen showing a lack of
> memory.
>
> I have been having problems for a few weeks now. At first just a little
> slow
> down and the occassional crash, but it has recently escalated to large
> scale
> slow down and fatal errors causing the pc to reboot. From the performances
> menu in Task Manager I can see large large CPU usage peaks with the
> processor
> running at 100% consistantly with no programs running. Simil;arly, on
> startup
> the PF usage is settled around 200MB but gradually increases over a matter
> of
> minutes until it is 2 or 3 GB+. This is usually about when the system
> declares a fatal error and reboots itself.
>
> The only process that appears to be taking processor power at these points
> is svchost, that will usually run between 0-1%. I have been aprehensive to
> end this though as I know it to be a core process. I also had similar
> problems with lsass.exe. I researched and figured it could be the Welchia
> Worm or MSBLAST.D virus but have found no trace with any anti virus
> software.
> I tried the suggested treatments regardless with no success.
>
> A couple of days ago the problems got to the point where no prgrams would
> open and the system rebooted every few minutes. I managed to rectify this
> by
> reinstalling windows, but it appears to have been short lived. Now, after
> a
> fatal error the PC has been unable to reboot.
>
> Ironically I was planning on moving all of my work across a network and
> reformatting the hard drive this weekend. A boot disk won't work so I have
> been booting from CD. Apparently my hard drive is partitioned, which I
> didnt
> know about. I'm given the option of 8MB unpartitioned, D:partition 2
> [unknown] 2494MB (2494 MB free) or C:partition 1 [unknown] 114738MB
> (114737MB
> free).
>
> I cannot reinstal windows without formatting one of them, and I'd rathjer
> not loose any of my files.
>
> Can anybody suggest a possible cause or solution?
>
> Thanks in advance. Im running a P4 with around 80GB harddrive and plenty
> of
> SDRAM. Specifics on request
>
> Ps. I apologise for not knowing the specifics of some of the error
> messages.
> I would replicate them if I could.
.
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