re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 6:58 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ghahndaulf (1 messages posted) I actually disassembled the CD ROM drive and cleaned the optics with windex and my T-Shirt. BANG! It works great. There must be some supersensetive code that Windows uses that cannot handle large data tolerances. Go Figure. THanks for the posts all. This is definitely a very worthwhile thread. On Monday, October 2, 2006 at 7:47 am, Paul Littler wrote: >Hi all, > >I have just had the same problem with windows 2000 which was running fine and just >decided to show the message. I have just fixed it, so if this works for you then >this post was worth it. > >Got to a DOS prompt where I could access my hard drive (Used a XP disk) and typed >in CHKDSK /F > >It found a couple of index problems then a whole load of others but afterwards the >computer booted fine. > > >Hope it helps >Paul > > > Written in response to: re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Paul Littler: Monday, October 2, 2006 at 7:47 am) Responses to this message: re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Tony: Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 5:38 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Rod : Sun, Apr 4, 2004, 10:16 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Retro: Mon, Apr 5, 2004, 1:45 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Rod : Mon, Apr 5, 2004, 6:30 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (muelv: Mon, May 3, 2004, 11:41 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (ernie: Sat, Nov 27, 2004, 8:04 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Jesse: Tue, Oct 4, 2005, 2:57 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Steve: Sat, May 20, 2006, 5:24 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (donald: Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 7:17 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Paul Littler: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 7:47 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Ghahndaulf: Thu, Nov 2, 2006, 6:58 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Tony: Thu, Nov 9, 2006, 5:38 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Shawn Anderson: Tue, Dec 5, 2006, 7:30 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (Dr. Levy: Sun, Mar 18, 2007, 4:54 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (cssilver: Sat, Jan 20, 2007, 11:21 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (David K: Thu, Mar 1, 2007, 12:45 am) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP (lucam: Sun, Mar 11, 2007, 4:42 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (lucam: Tue, Mar 13, 2007, 6:32 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (crtalbot: Sun, Nov 4, 2007, 3:36 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (Brian: Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 4:21 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (Bruno: Wed, May 7, 2008, 3:08 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (Bruno: Wed, May 7, 2008, 3:15 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (Mehere: Thu, Oct 9, 2008, 9:31 pm) re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (kgirlx: Thu, Jan 29, 2009, 7:11 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum