k0rnh0li0

one thing good i read out of this whole thread.

if its corrupted did you make a partition for just the OS. if you didn't that's ok to.

could you try repairing it with a disk? maybe boot to safe mode screen and see if you get anything.

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Zzyzx

Before you get to the Windows loading screen, press F8. You can choose to disable automatic restarts. This will give you more information because at least then we'll know the stop code. From the F8 screen, after restarting and getting the stop code and any driver file if listed, I would boot into safe mode and see if I could completely uninstall the Nvidia drivers, wipe them with something like Driver Sweeper/Cleaner, and then reinstall them. It sounds like something went screwy with that last driver install. This sounds a bit more like some sort of driver issue than an hardware one, but it's hard to say.

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FlaKing

Ah, okay. That makes sense. I'll give those things a try first thing in the morning. Thanks for the help and I will post back soon.

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Bazuny

Maybe resetting the Cmos and if you need to backup your files you can install ubuntu on another HDD and do that. (That is if this isn't a hardware failure.)

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If it is available to you, and you have a sata/ide converter to USB , remove the drive, place it on a working pc, hit with every virus scan out there, and try to boot again.

If that is not avaialable run this...

http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootab...download-list/

This will help you isolate the problem, and at least give you an idea if its virus-related or not

Also

A Repair Installation is also a pretty low-risk alternative, and essential to determining the problem to be hardware or software

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Also, one very good sign of corrupted hard drives, from my experience, is when you attempt to boot of the XP CD , it will not get past the black loading screen, this also happens with SATA DVDs and SATA Hard Drives as well. So dont be shocked if you get problems trying to boot from the XP CD, This still does not guarentee 100% that you have hardware failure


If you still have the problem, open your case, and judging by your sig, you are using Western Digital Hard Drives , and you can download diagnostics tools here

http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...vel1=6&lang=en


Another great way to test the functionality of your whole system, is to remove your hard drive controller drivers from that K8 machine, stick the HD in the non-working PC, and see if you are receiving any errors, if you don't receive any errors like you are receiving , it is almost definite not hardware.
If you attempt this step, and get a blue screen on boot, perform repair installation.

The most common parts to fail on a PC are PSU, Hard Drive, and Fans.

FlaKing

Alright, I'm getting an "Unmountable Boot Volume" as a stop code. Safe mode does not work either. So, I loaded my RAID drivers and went into Recovery Console. I'm running a Chkdsk /r right now.

If that doesn't work then another option would be to run a fixboot.

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In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

simfreak47

fixboot and/or fixmbr might do the trick. Post back with results

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Zzyzx

Yeah, that's almost always a boot.ini issue. CHKDSK + FIXBOOT should pretty surely take care of that.

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Photographer

might i suggest installing linux on a pen drive....... just boot off the pen drive and see if your drive is detectable there, then just copy over your important files and reformat......

hope i helped

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Posting from the computer right now. Chkdsk /r did the trick and I am now able to get into Windows. I'm not sure how stable it is right now, we'll see if it lasts through the night. One weird thing though. I get the same errors at startup that I had before it started bluescreening at startup. Are these files damaged and need to be repaired?

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In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.