0x0000000A and Knoppix

[Propaganda]

I have a windows XP box that is getting a stop 0x0000000A error. Ive narrowed the problem down to a bad device driver. So I just wanna transfer data between this drive to a new one that has an XP setup. So I used the prog Knoppix, a live bootable linux cd. So this is as easy as a little partitioning and mounting, but the faulty HDD is not there? only the new HDD is displayed and active?? Faulty is set to Master and the new one is Slave, both iternal. When I use the XP bootable CD it shows me that the faulty HDD has 2.2 gigs and no empty space, when it is a 20 gig HDD?! Oh and it cant tell what file system it has? When just a few days ago before it totally went out it was running XP Update. Now it is just in a precise boot loop. It does not hang on the stop screen. See it is Windows Update, from a FAT32 to NTFS, so thats where I get incompatible device driver. I cant believe thought that a device driver is keeping me from entering into safe mode. Knoppix is a nice little tool. Im just in a rut.

[ffreeloader]

See it is Windows Update, from a FAT32 to NTFS, so thats where I get incompatible device driver. I cant believe thought that a device driver is keeping me from entering into safe mode. Knoppix is a nice little tool. Im just in a rut.

I agree that Knoppix is a great tool.

Are you saying that upgraded your system drive from FAT32 to NTFS? If so you may have all kinds of problems. I've done this exactly twice--upgraded a system drive from FAT32 to NTFS--and it corrupted the system partition both times. If I remember correctly from the Knowldge Base Microsoft does not recommend upgrading the system partition from FAT to NTFS. That upgrade works very well on non-system partitions but not on system partitions.

The two times I've done this I've had corrupted drivers on time and the second time some of my software would not work. I uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled said software several times and it would never work. Both times I had to reformat the hard drive to NTFS and then reinstall the OS to fix the problem.

[Propaganda]

I know the Windows XP Upgrade turns Win 9x into Win XP but the file system still shows up as Fat32. (Dont ask me why?) So I dont know exactly what you mean about which partition because your upgrading an older version of windows to XP, so you wouldnt create a side partition to install Win XP Upgrade. But I do not recommend anyone use XP upgrade.

[ffreeloader]

I misunderstood you. I thought you were upgrading the FAT partition to an NTFS partition. If you do that on a system partition you usually end up with a corrupted partition. As to why you're only seeing 2.2 gigs of hard drive, here's why from MS's XP resource kit.

FAT16 volumes larger than 2 GB are not accessible from computers running MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and many other operating systems. This limitation occurs because these operating systems do not support cluster sizes larger than 32 KB, which results in the 2 GB limit.

That means XP is going to see the same limit when it's installed because you are upgrading not doing a clean install, and you may be running into corruption problems just because you're running out of disk space trying to upgrade to XP on a partition of that size that has existing files on it.

As to why XP keeps the FAT32 file system read the above about corrupting system partitions when converting FAT32 file systems to NTFS.

[Propaganda]

ffreloader, thats my fault completly, I read my first post and I left out that this guy installed XP Upgrade over his existing Win 98 box. So thats where I get FAT32 to NTFS. No problem though cause I got past that. I have found out alot in the last 3 days. Well I realized that there was a bad partition. So I used this prog called Hard Drive Mechanic. Worked like a charm. So I dl it and ran it form floppy. It fixed a damaged boot sector and now I can repair missing or damaged files. My error screen has changed completely, easier to troubleshoot. Maybe you can help me with this, it says im missing the following from my faulty drive:


1. Normal
2. Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3. Safe mode
4. Step-by-step confirmation
5. Command prompt only
6. Safe mode command prompt only

Enter a choice: (Any choice prompts the following below)

Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error.
Choose command prompt only and run SCANREG.

(SCANREG prompts error too)

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM

Type the name of the COMMAND INTERPRETER (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)

C>_


Im guessing if I had a Windows 98 boot CD maybe I could fix this? XP boot CD will not give me an option to repair. So the question is how can I get these missing files back in memory drive.

[glc]

That sounds more like bad ram memory.

[Digitalic]

It seems to me that you have a mess. Most of the files your utility is reporting are W9x files and I suspect a bad Install of XP.

If I were handed this machine to fix and came up with this mess I`d inform the customer that it would be most cost effective to save critical data and then install XP from scratch. (nuke and pave glc?....) Not to mention saving me from pulling out what little hair I have left trying to straighten this out.

Since you are familiar with Linux then boot your Knoppix disk from Cd and copy files to a FAT partition. Since you have an upgrade of XP it`s a matter of running the installation and sticking your valid copy of W98 in to verify when prompted and then continue with a fresh install.