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zaczac
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:20 pm    Post subject: BSOD on startup Reply with quote

Heres the problem everytime i boot up my pc it starts up fine then it starts to load up windows xp and about 3 seconds into that it bsods, i cant even look at the bsod to see what the problem is cause it poofs to fast Sad.
is there any way to disable automatic restart with out logging into windows?
i tried hitting F8 and it didnt show in the menu -.-.
if theres no way to do that any suggestions?
its not the memory,graphics card. both tested
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The same thing happened to me last month and my friend's moms boss's friend last week, and now you.
Let me explain what happened..
Your hard drive was fried.
All your files are deleted.
Forever.
Not even the FBI can fix this.
You need to format and install windows again, sorry.
Tough beans.
Major bummer.
Big sigh.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if it was fried how would reformating it fix that....
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your hard drive is scrambled, the computer can't read the OS info, so it reboots.
If you were to slave it to another computer (which I tried) it won't register.
Even if you force it, it will say the drive is corrupted.
The electrical socket your computer was plugged into probably wasn't grounded, and a power surge just fried the thing.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

run the XP disc and start the recovery console.
In the recovery console type in chkdsk /p and press enter.

Another way is to take that drive into another computer and run a scandisk before windows windows loads.

If scandisk does not run automatically, open up command prompt.
in command prompt, type in chkdsk (the letter of the drive you want to check) /f and press enter.

Cmd will say do you want to dismount? press N
CMD will say do you want to schedul a scandisk after a restart? press Y.

Restart and let windows scan your requested drive.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i tried the recovery consol and chkdsk /r nothing:( and i tried puttin it in my other comp, just made it restart constently -.-
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cryoma wrote:
The same thing happened to me last month and my friend's moms boss's friend last week, and now you.
Let me explain what happened..
Your hard drive was fried.
All your files are deleted.
Forever.
Not even the FBI can fix this.
You need to format and install windows again, sorry.
Tough beans.
Major bummer.
Big sigh.


Pretty quick to jump to the conclusion of catastrophic file system corruption huh?

It's not that "Not even the FBI can fix this", I've recovered data from several drives transferring PCB's, and platter transfers are possible too. It's not rocket science if you have access to a clean room. There's plenty of data recovery establishments that can recover data off of almost any drive accident.

@OP

If you've ruled out all possibility of it being a driver or memory issue, try using a different SATA/IDE cable and seeing if that helps.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

k well i still get the problem but i loaded windows xp onto the 2n hard drive on that computer and i can access all the files on C:\ so its not fried...
i just cant boot from it with out it bsoding -.-

LOL i got the error message on my camera O_O

heres the code 0x0000007E
I have not recently upgraded to windows.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zaczac wrote:
k well i still get the problem but i loaded windows xp onto the 2n hard drive on that computer and i can access all the files on C:\ so its not fried...
i just cant boot from it with out it bsoding -.-

LOL i got the error message on my camera O_O

heres the code 0x0000007E
I have not recently upgraded to windows.


Bad driver or a system file is corrupted, most likely the former.

Reinstall your drivers. If that doesn't help, do a Windows repair.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know why hackers keep airport wands on their desks?
If the authorities knock on their door, they switch it on and wipe over all their computers.
This literally wipes the entire drive so that it's physical memory goes from 1's and 0's to just 0's.
Same thing happens when there's a power surge.
If a drive is all 0's and no 1's, that means there is NO DATA LEFT.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cryoma wrote:
You know why hackers keep airport wands on their desks?
If the authorities knock on their door, they switch it on and wipe over all their computers.
This literally wipes the entire drive so that it's physical memory goes from 1's and 0's to just 0's.
Same thing happens when there's a power surge.
If a drive is all 0's and no 1's, that means there is NO DATA LEFT.

i think you watched too much die hard 4

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

zaczac wrote:
i tried the recovery consol and chkdsk /r nothing:( and i tried puttin it in my other comp, just made it restart constently -.-



In the recovery console it's chkdsk /p
In the command prompt within Windows it's chkdsk <your drive letter> /f

It looks like the drive you want to fix is taking over, you will have to go into your bios and change the hard drive position in order to boot from your main drive.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sadly iv tried all those and still nothing...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

can you start in safe mode,
that would just mean a bad driver if you can,

otherwise maybe a virus is keeping you from booting,

when you put your drive into your friends pc did you make sure your drive was made the slave with the jumper on the slave pins,

to make sure you don't infect your friends pc in case you have a virus it would make sense to slave your drive to his when his and make sure he starts up in a limited user account,

then he can scan your drive safely without getting infected

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