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re: keeps rebooting
Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 6:04 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Johnoh
(41 messages posted)
this was due to a corrupt c:\winnt\system32\config\software file. I restored its
backup and all is well
On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 11:34 am, Johnoh wrote:
>Hi I am having this problem with a hard drive no matter if I connect it one machine
>or the other. Both machines have via chipsets and the drive used to be able to
boot
>from either machine. It shows the bar graph on the white windows screen, then just
>after that bar graph gets to 100%, just when it would normally bring up the desktop,
>it reboots. There is a 0.1 second flash of a bsod that starts with "STOP", but
I
>cannot get it to pause at that point to read the full message. Same thing happens
>when trying to boot in safe mode.
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>When I try to do a repair install it says "no windows installation found".
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>I have run fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console.
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>I have run thorough scandisk and maxtor powermax - both say the drive is fine.
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>If I boot from a different drive and hook this drive up as secondary, it is fully
>viewable and appears to be fine. Partition table and file system checker programs
>say everything is fine.
>
>When I enable boot logging, no log file is created.
>
>I have not changed any hardware for months. I've had machines fail right at this
>before and found out it was a corrupted driver, which is why I hoped that moving
>it to the second machine might allow it to work (other than the similar motherboard
>most of the hardware is different), but no dice.
>
>I have backup up all data on the drive however there are so many programs that I've
>loaded, I'd really like to avoid an OS relaod. All input is welcome
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