Re: c000003a, werid message

When you reboot keep tapping the F8 key and select Enable Boot logging

A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/en-us

Then look in the Ntbtlog.txt file for the error and copy the section in
a further post.

Something is trying to start but cannot find a path to complete the
task. That is what I think the c000003a means. The question is what is
trying to start?

After you see this error is the the Free Agent Disk available. Are there
any visible signs there that there is a problem? What is reported in
Disk managent regard the status of the Free Agent Drive? Start, Control
Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.

It might also be useful to look in Device Manager to see if there are
any problems indicated for the removable drive. Start, Control Panel,
System, Hardware, Device Manger. Right click on the Device and select
Properties. If there is an Error Code please advise what it is.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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DUKEMON wrote:
I had tried the utility and set the timer but it failed to rectify
the weird message appearing on boot screen.

By the way, The screen background are similar to those windows xp
checkdisk with the:

InitializeCommand

c000003a

message.


.

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