urgent help needed! BSOD error won't give me acess to drive

[csgudis]

I think this is best answered here because the harddrive is fine it's just the windows xp issue.

I have a 80gb harddrive and installed the ultra ata/100 controller which came with the western digital 160 harddrive i just bought.

After a day or so after installing norton utilities I have been locked out of access from this drive.

I tried doing repair console from win xp cd but on hardrive check instead of going to the dos prompt it has blue screen and reboots.

IT won't even let me format from windows xp CD

after this incident, any new harddrive I install I've been getting error messages in windows about system files being corrupted.

after windows xp cd installs it the files keep getting corrupted. what should I do?

I tried putting this drive as slave to just get acess so I can copy the files but it reboots when windows load up. how can I access this drive. I have another harddrive from a friend that boots up but when I set this as master and the messed up one as slave, i still get bsod. how can I get it to not check the slave and launch windows




error report!!!!!!!!!!!


this is the error I keep getting on the 80gb.

It says to disable any anti-virus, defrag, and to use chkdsk/f
(but I can't get acess to perform these functions)

stop 0x00000024(0x001902fa, 0xf89b518, 0xf89b5514, 0xf815abba)

ntfs.sys address
f815abba base at f814e000, date stamp 3d6d5c1


please someone help

[LooseChippings]

Have you used any type of diagnostic tool from the HDD Manufacturer as I suggested in your original thread in the Hardware Forum?

Does the drive work OK if you move it to an IDE Channel on your Mobo?

[csgudis]

Originally posted by LooseChippings
Have you used any type of diagnostic tool from the HDD Manufacturer as I suggested in your original thread in the Hardware Forum?

Does the drive work OK if you move it to an IDE Channel on your Mobo?

of course I've tried all those. It's a software issue. windows is locking me out to protect files
If anyone knows how to get rid of that error code please post

[LooseChippings]

Have you tried a Booting from floppy?

Thanks to the Elder Geek for the info

[csgudis]

I thought with windows XP, you can't access ntfs from dos. If you boot from floppy isn't it using dos or can u boot ntfs?
please I need more replies.

[LooseChippings]

If you read the info on the link I posted it will answer a lot of your questions.

[csgudis]

well looseclipping, it seems like u r the only one helping me out here.
I have yet to try the floppy method but i feel it i unlikely that it will suceed given how so many methods have failed thus far. i noticed when i did a search some companies have softwares to edit ntfs like dos. but it cost alot of mula.


I found part of the problem. I must have installed windows 20 times this week on 5 different harddrives trying various of things. all of the installs have endded up w/ corrupted windows files. I try installing it on my other comp and no corruption. I've narrowed down the cause to 2 things, my motherboard(specifically the ide slots on the motherboard) this is where I plugged the cdrom and I've gotten errors that it couldn't read it the first time around when files were being copied. the 2nd is the memory.
one of the memory chip turned out to be faulty.


do you know if a faulty memory chip will cause corrupted write when copying files to harddrive? i felt this was unlikely.

[LooseChippings]

I don't know about the memory but if it is bad it needs changing.

Have you tried slaving one of the HDs into anothe machine even to see if it will boot to command prompt.

Also try an install to a FAT 32 drive.

I would take the ultra ata/100 controller out of the system because it may have a conflict with another device.

Give the boot floppy a go - you might be surprised.

[csgudis]

i don't think you are understanding the problem. the boot up disk launches you into windows hence when it does the comp has error and reboots.
i need to somehow be able to edit in dos mode function in ntfs.
the seagate hd is the one w/ the error and i put this as slave and launched from a differen comp with a master harddrive. in win98, the windows only checks the boot-up drive but with xp it seems like when windows launches it check the slave harddrives and when it see it corrupted "protects it by denying acess bsod".

I need some way to remove the protection. i don't know why they put this protection in the 1st place it defeats the purpose since If i can't get acess i would have to format.

[LooseChippings]

In your shoes this is what I would do with this problem - basically start from scratch ...

Disconnect ALL your Hard Drives and Optical Drives.

Remove your Ultra ATA 100 controller card.

Set the 'Jumpers' on one Hard Drive to Master.

Connect The Master Hard Drive to your system IDE Connector 0.

Set the 'Jumpers' on one Optical Drive to Master.

Connect The Master Optical Drive to your system IDE Connector 1.

Switch your system ON and go to BIOS (normally delete key).

Remove any drives that are showing in BIOS.

Detect and Install you 2 drives into BIOS.

Reboot the PC - if you get a boot disk error put your XP Install disk in, reboot into BIOS and set your BIOS to boot from CD.

Reboot and see if you can get it going from there.

[csgudis]

surely there must be a way to have acess to ntfs without booting to windows.
i have 2 hd in my comp, the 160g and 80g. 80g is the one where windows corruption wont let me acess to the files. the 160 works fine by itself. but when i use the 160 as master and 80 as slave inorder to try to have access to 80g, i cant bsod. what i dont understand is why is the d drive being checked as well for consistency when i am booting from C drive?

are there any other windows forum that is more active where i might get some more input?




also are there utilites to check any problems w/ motherboard to see ide slots are funxctonal?

[LooseChippings]

Try Google

Use XP Forums for your search.

I got quite a few results. I am sure that you can find something in one of those to help.