Re: Help! SCSI drive & XP crash BOSD

xpuser wrote:
> Oh boy, what a mess! Running XP Pro SP 1, fully patched, (ASUS P3B-F
> PIII/600 1GIG RAM) using Adaptecs 2940UW (bios 3.1 something) with a IBM
> DINES 17GB hard drive, and we were installing Roxio's damn CD Platimun 5.3.x
> software when it became unresponsive in middle of the install.
>
> Now, we are unable to get the PC going, it fails on the following stop code,
> no matter which safe mode option we try.... We even tried re-installing
> windows over the existing windows that too failed.
>
> BSOD -- STOP: 0XF79BE640, 0XC0000034, OX0000000, 0X0000000 - we assume this
> stop code is related to something Roxio's installer broke in one of the DLL
> files - but we need a way to figure out how to either reinstall windows -
> without loosing existing data files, or find a way to get the thing mounted
> as a drive. XP will start up but shortly after the spash screen we get the
> BOSD pretty quickly, we never do see the welcome/log in screen.
>
> We urgently need our data files from this SCSI drive!
>
> We have also tried putting the SCSI controller card and drive into our other
> gateway PC, which it's master drive is an IDE drive. However, doing this, no
> matter how we set the bios, the PC keeps trying to boot from the SCSI hard
> drive - and the IDE hard drive disappears from bios - Is there a way to
> make the IDE boot up and run XP and the SCSI drive just mount?
>


Have you changed the bios on the SCSI card? There should be a message
when it first boots showing what to press -- I think it is CTL-A or
ALT-A. From there you can change the controller to not boot from the
SCSI drive.



> Is there any utility we can use to help us force mount the scsi drive as a
> drive and not as a start up/boot up? We have no scsi utilities - none came
> with the scsi hard drive that was installed by our vendor.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>