need help with system recovery

[Sally]

I am having problems with an HP Pavilion w/ XP. I keep
getting a black screen that says Operating System not
found. After several attempts I finally get it to boot up
and tried system restore to 3 different points which all
worked for a little while (about 30 minutes or so) then
the same message, OS not
found. I could get it to boot after several attempts and
started getting messages that said some files had been
corrputed. So I decided to do a non-destructive system
recovery. Half way through the system recovery I received
to dreaded blue screen that windows had shut down and
contained the following info:

kernel_data_inpage_error

technical info:

***STOP: 0x0000007A (0xE11FB428, 0xC000000E, 0xBF8FA278,
0x0D3DF860)

***win32k.sys - Address BF8FA278 base at BF800000, date
stamp 3b5ee2e6

Can someone please help me out with this?
..

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

"Operating System Not Found" Error Message When You Start the Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321626&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|I am having problems with an HP Pavilion w/ XP. I keep
| getting a black screen that says Operating System not
| found. After several attempts I finally get it to boot up
| and tried system restore to 3 different points which all
| worked for a little while (about 30 minutes or so) then
| the same message, OS not
| found. I could get it to boot after several attempts and
| started getting messages that said some files had been
| corrputed. So I decided to do a non-destructive system
| recovery. Half way through the system recovery I received
| to dreaded blue screen that windows had shut down and
| contained the following info:
|
| kernel_data_inpage_error
|
| technical info:
|
| ***STOP: 0x0000007A (0xE11FB428, 0xC000000E, 0xBF8FA278,
| 0x0D3DF860)
|
| ***win32k.sys - Address BF8FA278 base at BF800000, date
| stamp 3b5ee2e6
|
| Can someone please help me out with this?

 

[Bill]

I had that same problem a qhile ago and it turned out my
hard drive was going bad. I did a boot-up scandisk with
the "find and attempt to repair all bad disk sectors" set
to YES. It took almost two hours to check, but it did
find several bad sectors and remove them from use. I
haven't had a problem since. BUT (and this is important)
be prepared to replace your hard drive very soon.
Backups are important.