Blue screen and reboot

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Will Denny

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Try tapping F8 to access a screen where 'Last Known Good Configuration' is
an option. If that doesn't work try accessing the same screen again, then
try a System Restore via Safe Mode.

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| I have Windows XP Pro and last night I ran DisKeeper before leaving the
| office and left it running.
| This morning when I came at the office the power was off (power shortage).
| I tried to restart the computer and I get a blue screen that flashes for
| half a second and then the computer restarts.
| I don't have time to see what the blue screen says.
|
| Is there a way out of this problem?
|
|
 
I have Windows XP Pro and last night I ran DisKeeper before leaving the
office and left it running.
This morning when I came at the office the power was off (power shortage).
I tried to restart the computer and I get a blue screen that flashes for
half a second and then the computer restarts.
I don't have time to see what the blue screen says.

Is there a way out of this problem?
 
Thanks for the reply Will.
Safe mode gives the same result.
I also tried the Last known good conf. and it doesn't work either.
 
Try Safe Mode with Command Prompt from the same F8 window. If you can
get into that try a restore from the commmand line:

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe then press Enter

If you can't get into Safe mode with command prompt try a repair install:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

You will have to reinstall all MS updates.
 
OK, I finaly managed to get my system working.
I will explain how it worked out.
I had in mind that I must reinstall windows, but befor that I had to backup
all the data on C:.
To do so I had to mount another HD and install on it Windows to access the
NTFS volume with the data to recover. (I could not take C to another
computer because it is a SATA disk and I have no othar computer supporting
SATA).
As I am installing windows, I suddently see that windows is performing some
security changes on some 150000 files.
The message I received was "Replacing invalid security id with default
security id for file xxxxx"
It took about five hours to run and then after I finished installing windows
I tried again to boot from the old Windows and it worked!
 
Yaacov Klapisch said:
I have Windows XP Pro and last night I ran DisKeeper before leaving the
office and left it running.
This morning when I came at the office the power was off (power shortage).
I tried to restart the computer and I get a blue screen that flashes for
half a second and then the computer restarts.
I don't have time to see what the blue screen says.

Is there a way out of this problem?
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yes, i've seen this error with diskeeper before, what has happened is that
when diskeeper was moving files, it messed up entries for critical system
files in the MFT (master file table), and now the system can't locate
certain files required to start. in the case that i've seen, diskeeper
messed-up the MFT entry for 'ntldr.dll' (nt loader).

the fix was to start the system using the recovery console (on the XP
installation cdrom) then run CHKDSK /P C: on the volume to correct errors in
the file system. note, this is more likely to work if your boot drive is an
NTFS formatted drive, as NTFS keeps a transaction log and is more
recoverable than FAT32 drives. try launching the recovery console and
running chkdsk on the drive (don't forget to use the /P switch which
instructs chkdsk to fix any errors it finds), there is a good chance that
will fix your problem.

tip - to get help with commands that you can use in the recovery console,
type HELP at the C:\ prompt, but the only command you should need to use is
CHKDSK, for which you can also type, CHKDSK /? to see help on how to use the
command.

btw, i strongly urge you to NOT use the retail version of diskeeper, the
lite version of diskeeper is built-in to windows, and that's all you need to
keep your drive SAFELY defragmented.
 
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