re: Hi! Cannot repair, format, or access my hard drive due to corrupt file(s) in any way. Please help, really urgent...
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 11:37 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Harry Clark
(475 messages posted)
Download the Free Seagate drive utility, Seatools I think it is called, create a
bootable CD and use it to set the drive back to the way it came out of the factory
(Zero Filled)
I think you can also use this to partition the drive before you start the Windows
install process
Cheers HC
On Monday, February 2, 2009 at 9:43 am, grana wrote:
>Hi everyone, i can normally fix or overcome xp 'nightmares' myself but this one
has
>really got me! Please help as I have important recording session for a movie soundtrack
>tomorrow and rely on all my equipment!
>
>I formatted and reinstalled a new copy of XP Pro a few days ago on my Samsung R560
>laptop(Centrino dual core 2.66GHz, 4GB Ram). Spent all weekend and today re-installing
>apps-software and optimizing XP (using w/ professional recording studio).
>Everything was going excellent and nearly ready until i decided to partition my
internal
>laptop HD w/ Partition Magic. I recently bought and installed the current HD and
>has been working no probs till today. It is a Seagate Momentus SATA 7200 rpm for
>faster handling.
>Partition Magic froze half way thru the 1st 'job' which was re-allocating C drive
>size. I had to switch off.
>Since it's all gone very wrong! If i choose to boot in safe mode(s) it reads of
a
>stream of .sys files, freezes and then blue screen (a problem has been detected...
>error message).
>If i boot w/ normal windows start-up option it freezes during xp load screen and
>also jumps to blue screen.
>Even worse, if i boot to XP Cd, before it even reaches the repair or install screen,
>it says that 'The file i2omp.sys is corrupt. Press any key to continue' and then
>restarts.
>I cannot use the ASR function as this requires floppy(s) as far as i have seen.
>Worst case scenario, i could format and restart all again but a can't even achieve
>that at the mo. The HD doesn't have a 'reset' jumper either.
>I apologize for the long message but i felt it necessary to include all the above.
>I would really appreciate any support/advice as i need an up and running OS with
>all my progs by tom morning. My neck is on it! I also have a macbook but that is
>also playing up for other reasons so other option 'not an option'...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Tony.
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