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09-08-2003, 09:54 AM
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System boot failure...
That was what my comp annouced this morning.
That was followed by : insert system disk and press enter. I did that and eventually got : Couldn't find NTLDR Then I hit the reset switch and the comp booted with no trouble. Puzzled, I went to Microsoft help & support, and found a sort of explanation under windows 2 K. Among the solutions was to flash an outdated bios ( and why would it be outdated this morning and not any other ) and to do a repair install. I chose the later and booted from the OS cd. It loaded set-up files preparing to ask me what I wanted to do and then came to a blue screen halt with the following message: Stop: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error\SystemRoot\System32\ntd77.d77 . I could turn up no explanation of this at the help and support site. I know I'm in trouble and it's hardware; but what hardware ? And why would it boot without trouble almost immeadiately following it's initial failure? edit : that should read ntdll.dll . As far as I can tell everything is working now but I'm not turning it off again till I'm sure I can turn it back on.  My specs are in the sig.
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09-08-2003, 11:25 AM
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Check the content advisor, and/or encryption pack details.
Windowsupdate should sort this out. If you're doing the reinstall over top, do it under Administrator, and make sure your security is set nil. You can readjust later. |
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09-08-2003, 11:34 AM
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Will do now.
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09-08-2003, 03:03 PM
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It worked !
Windows update did sort it out when I reinstalled XP from within XP. I still don't know how I got whacked in the first place but everthing is working as it should and it wasn't a hardware problem ( my wallet is happy about that ). Thanks Jim. |
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09-08-2003, 04:00 PM
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Glad to help
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09-08-2003, 04:07 PM
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pam123
i had this ntldr missing problem a few wks ago at work we reinstalled windows and it ran fine for a few days then the hard drive died you may or may not have the same problem but to be safe i wood back up all important data then down load your hdd diag software and test the drive
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09-08-2003, 05:07 PM
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Andyms18a,
Thanks for the heads up. I just finished testing the drive with the Maxtor diagnostic. It passed, no trouble there, yet. |
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