- Can't recover from bad NTFS unmount (post crash)
- Posted by mechphisto@gmail.com on January 21st, 2008
I have a PC I'm working on that crashed in Windows XP Pro, and since,
will BSOD upon reboot before it gets to the Windows splash screen.
"Load last good configuration" changes nothing.
In safe mode it scrolls a page of drivers before it BSOD.
The message is:
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
....
STOP: 0x0000006B ...
From everything I can find, this is a messed up unmount problem.
When I load Knoppix and try to access the drive, it tells me it has to
"force a dirty mount," but I can still access the data.
fdisk -l tells me that "partition does not end on cylinder boundary".
With the Partition Magic 8 boot disk, it tells me the partition has
several:
Error, Number 1608, File record marked used, File [file number]
then after chkdsk /r, it comes up with a 1516 error.
I used repair console to chkdsk /r a couple of times, and Partition
Magic actually no longer detects a problem!
Except...it's still BSODing when trying to boot up.
Any ideas or suggestions what to do?
Thanks!
-Liam
- Posted by Rod Speed on January 21st, 2008
mechphisto@gmail.com wrote:
Thats what backups are for.
If are stupid enough to not have backed up what you care about losing,
does the knoppix mount allow you to copy off what you need to recover ?
If not, try a decent recovery app. I like easy recovery pro,
but it aint cheap if you have to pay for it.
- Posted by mechphisto@gmail.com on January 21st, 2008
On Jan 21, 1:52 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
I no stupid enough: *g* I do have a backup of all the info.
I spent two days last week reinstalling Windows and whatnot on this
machine and I'd really like to avoid having to repartition and format
the drive and start all over if there's some way around it.
I don't know if they would do any good in this case, but something
like FIXMBR or FIXBOOT.
If there is nothing that can make the drive boot into Windows again,
then I'll do what I have to, but I like to see if I have options.
- Posted by Rod Speed on January 22nd, 2008
mechphisto@gmail.com wrote
Then why did you ask the original question ?
If you had done the backups properly, it would only take 30 mins at most.
There is, work out where the hardware problem is, fix that, and do the backups properly,
a full physical drive image to an external hard drive with something like True Image.
Those only fix a very trivial subset of what gets corrupted and wont
do a damned thing about the hardware problem that system has.
Most likely the hard drive is dying. Post the Everest SMART report on the drive.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181
- Posted by Michael Hawes on January 22nd, 2008
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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suitable option to repair file system.
Mike.
- Posted by mechphisto@gmail.com on January 22nd, 2008
On Jan 22, 6:50 am, "Michael Hawes"
<michael.hawes1rem...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Yep, like I said in my original post, I did that.
Several times in fact.
Thanks,
Liam
- Posted by Rod Speed on January 22nd, 2008
Michael Hawes <michael.hawes1remove@tiscali.co.uk> wrote
Pointless if the drive is dying and thats very likely.
Stupid to be ignoring what produced the corruption in the
first place and just closing your eyes and hoping for the best.
- Posted by Eric Gisin on January 22nd, 2008
You have corruption of a kernel file (one listed during safe mode boot).
Try copying ntoskrnl, hal.dll, atapi.sys, from XP SP2 CD or working computer.
If that doesn't work, a repair install will fix it but takes longer.
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- Posted by mechphisto@gmail.com on January 22nd, 2008
Darn it, you gave me hope. =)
I did the copy, and ntfs.sys (after copying those files you mentioned,
safe mode prompted me a new message that ntfs.sys was corrupt), but it
still BSOD at bootup.
=(
Unfortunately, repair (not repair console, but repair the installed
OS) is for some reason not an option.
Thanks for replying. =)
On Jan 22, 3:25 pm, "Eric Gisin" <gi...@uniserve.com> wrote:
- Posted by Michael Cecil on January 22nd, 2008
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:34:50 -0800 (PST), mechphisto@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly, it's not an option. In other words, the screen doesn't offer
that. What people mean when they say to do a repair install is just to do
a regular install on top of the existing install.
I had a machine a short while ago that had a similar problem where I
didn't have access to the installation media so what I ended up trying was
doing a binary compare between the windows, system 32 and drivers folder
and the backup files in the dllcache folder. I copied over the files from
the dllcache folder to the other locations as needed. Then I booted up
the system and re-ran windowsupdate, and finally ran sfc /scannow.
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