BSOD - 1E following stuck cd...

[Mike]

Okay,

I was playing an old cd-based game and the game froze because the drive
couldn't read the cd, so I manually ejected the cd using a paperclip. Has
happened before, no big deal. Wife wanted to go out so I left before the
machine completed an intentional reboot. I rebooted because Windows was
whining about an unexpected device disconnection (liteon cd rom). I get
back and the machine is constantly rebooting with a BSOD just before the
logon prompt.

The BSOD (straight from a camera... heh)

STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x80458676, 0x00000000, 0x0000038C)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Address 80458676 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3ee6c002 - ntoskrnl.exe
Beginning physical dump of memory <FAST REBOOT!>

No hardware has been installed for some time and it has been rebooted
several times within the last few weeks (last h/w install was a month or two
ago when my HP CDRW died and I replaced it with a spare CD-ROM). My initial
guess is that data got corrupted.

Any solutions (aside from going to the MS site, I've read through the BSOD
material). I read on one site that 1E/C0000005 errors are caused by
registry corruption (software hive?), should I attempt to restore a generic
HKLM/software? If it's a driver causing the issue, how can I detect the
problem driver and prevent it from being loaded? Any other suggestions?

I might just write this one off, save the data, and start over. But I'd
rather not.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You can try this:

- Boot with your Win2000 CD
- Select "Repair" when prompted
- Select "Command Console" when prompted
- Enter the Administrator's password
- Navigate to c:\winnt\system32\config
- Rename "System" to "System.bad"
- Rename "System.alt" to "System"
- Type "Exit"

 

[Mike]

You can try this:

- Boot with your Win2000 CD
- Select "Repair" when prompted
- Select "Command Console" when prompted
- Enter the Administrator's password
- Navigate to c:\winnt\system32\config
- Rename "System" to "System.bad"
- Rename "System.alt" to "System"
- Type "Exit"

I tried it, same result... isn't that the same thing as last known good
configuration from the windows boot options? Oh well...

I even tried reinstalling windows, but the result is the same. I might go
in and nuke the windows directory, then reinstall windows. I tried using
the recovery console to just copy over the files I want, but it says access
is denied when I try to write to a second hard drive. Lovely...

Ah... I'm installing XP w/o formatting and it *SEEMS* to be working, that is
it got to the second stage of setup without rebooting (w2k rebooted before
finishing setup lol). I'll keep my fingers crossed, all I need is the data.

Thanks for helping...