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Mrrr Psycho
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OK, here's the rundown of events so far:
1. I turn on my computer this morning, send an email perfectly normally and shut down again. Everything is working fine. (8am)
2. I turn on my computer a few hours later (12:45ish) and EVERYTHING IS SCREWED
3. By screwed, I mean that it won't even boot into windows XP. It gets to the windows XP loading screen, the blue bar thing scrolls for a couple of seconds, then the machine restarts spontaneously. It then goes to the "we're sorry, but windows XP did not start properly, choose safemode blah blah" screen. Choosing any of the options on said screen results in exactly the same behaviour.
4. I tried to do a repair install, managed to get setup to see the SATA controller and things were going well until it got to the "setup is examining drive (my hard drive) at (my SATA controller)". Then I get a nice big blue stop screen with words to the effect of "Windows has been stopped to prevent any damage to your computer... If you get this screen more than once disable virus scanning software, and run CHKDSK /f to check for corruption on your hard disk". It references ntfs.sys as the cause of the problem.
5. I would dearly love to run chkdsk, but can't as it won't let me into a recovery console where this is an option! I've tried selecting "install windows xp" and "repair windows xp" - same problem occurs.
Any suggestions? My system specs are as follows:
AMD 2800+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
120 GB SATA hard disk (unsure of manufacturer, I think it may be maxtor..?)
Radeon 9800 pro
WinTV Express TV card
1gb PC 3200 RAM
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Normally I'd just slave the drive up and have a look at it using a working windows XP install on another drive, but unfortunately I don't have access to another drive If you're suggesting boot disks, bear in mind I'm using the onboard SATA controller for hard disk access, which Windows XP requires special drivers for (so I'd imagine it's the same for bootdisks...).
1. I turn on my computer this morning, send an email perfectly normally and shut down again. Everything is working fine. (8am)
2. I turn on my computer a few hours later (12:45ish) and EVERYTHING IS SCREWED
3. By screwed, I mean that it won't even boot into windows XP. It gets to the windows XP loading screen, the blue bar thing scrolls for a couple of seconds, then the machine restarts spontaneously. It then goes to the "we're sorry, but windows XP did not start properly, choose safemode blah blah" screen. Choosing any of the options on said screen results in exactly the same behaviour.
4. I tried to do a repair install, managed to get setup to see the SATA controller and things were going well until it got to the "setup is examining drive (my hard drive) at (my SATA controller)". Then I get a nice big blue stop screen with words to the effect of "Windows has been stopped to prevent any damage to your computer... If you get this screen more than once disable virus scanning software, and run CHKDSK /f to check for corruption on your hard disk". It references ntfs.sys as the cause of the problem.
5. I would dearly love to run chkdsk, but can't as it won't let me into a recovery console where this is an option! I've tried selecting "install windows xp" and "repair windows xp" - same problem occurs.
Any suggestions? My system specs are as follows:
AMD 2800+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
120 GB SATA hard disk (unsure of manufacturer, I think it may be maxtor..?)
Radeon 9800 pro
WinTV Express TV card
1gb PC 3200 RAM
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Normally I'd just slave the drive up and have a look at it using a working windows XP install on another drive, but unfortunately I don't have access to another drive If you're suggesting boot disks, bear in mind I'm using the onboard SATA controller for hard disk access, which Windows XP requires special drivers for (so I'd imagine it's the same for bootdisks...).
