re: When I try to boot normally, I get an error message "Windows protection error. Restart computer. System halted."
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:47 pm
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Posted by Ed
(659 messages posted)
The hard disk can NOT have died.
The error message is a Windows message, meaning that Windows has been successfully
read from the hard disk, and has at least partially loaded into memory: this would
be impossible if the disk could not be accessed (e.g. because it was a dead disk).
It would also be impossible for Windows to have loaded if there was physical damage
to the hard disk (e.g. to the MBR sector or the Boot Sector), or if there was data
corruption affecting either the partition structure or the boot sector.
The most likely cause of a Blue Screen error, given the specified error message reported
by the user, is the presence of an incompatible device driver file.
Ed
On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 7:26 pm, Steve wrote:
>My bet is the Hard Drive has died. Might be time for a New Computer. If you decide
>to buy a New Drive, stay at a 120 gigs or smaller. Just a question if the old Computer
>is worth the trouble.
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