re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 7:11 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by kgirlx (1 messages posted) i was trying to install winxp pro. install would BSOD with the same message as everyone here. changing my install dvd drive to my other dvd drive solved it. it installed with no probs after that. i couldnt believe it. i was pulling my hair out before that. all these components are only bout 3-4 mos old. anyways, all the great advice i got from here worked. thanks everyone. On Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm, Mehere wrote: >FYI >Had a laptop come in with this. >BSOD reboot cycle. >recovery cds could boot and run winpe and read or recover deleted files. HDD scans >(3 diff products) gave no hdd or file errors. >Had to do repair with slipstreamed xpsp2 cd. It worked, removed novell client nwgina >from login back to msgina but easily fixed. >found eventvwr msg about last boot had run a chkdsk itself (or the owner) and found >LOTS of errors and orphan files. >So I assume error was due to damaged OS file not being repaired or read after chkdsk >ran for the owner... >Not hardware this time. BUT backing up their files to be sure to be sure... > >Also FYI XPsp3 has downloaded and is ready to install for this person. shouldnt be >related, will finish the install. > > Written in response to: re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP/2K (Mehere: Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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