Crashed! HELP!

[Glenn]

Something has happened to my HP, and I can not get it to
boot (even in safe mode) without getting a blue screen of
death.

I have both Windows ME & Win XP Pro operating systems on
the machine. I can pick between either of them when I am
booting - and both come up with the same blue screen that
basically says system halted.

I was able to create a startup disk on another computer
and can at least boot to the a: prompt and then switch to
c:. When I type DIR I get a listing of all my
directories and files.

What I would like to be able to do is copy the ones I
want onto another computer.

Is there a way to create a startup disk that will allow
that computer to be seen by another computer on my LAN so
that I can copy files from the HP to a computer that
isn't having difficulty?

TIA,
Glenn

 

[Frank]

Have you tired going into dos and typing sys c:. This will at least allow
you to maybe get into windows me so you can get on the network and move
programs.
Sys c: repair your boot sector but will destroy the dual boot which allows
you to get into xp.

 

[Glenn]

I get "Bad Command or File Name"

-----Original Message-----
Have you tired going into dos and typing sys c:. This will at least allow
you to maybe get into windows me so you can get on the network and move
programs.
Sys c: repair your boot sector but will destroy the dual boot which allows
you to get into xp.



.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I get "Bad Command or File Name"

I'm assuming the boot disk you created was a 9x boot disk. If yes, did you
first boot from that disk, change to the C drive and then type the sys c:
command?

 

[Glenn]

Yes, I did that and it doesn't work. HELP!

Thanks.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I'm assuming the boot disk you created was a 9x boot disk. If yes,
did you first boot from that disk, change to the C drive and then
type the sys c: command?

What is the error message on the blue screen?

 

[Glenn]

The blue screen says:

While Initializing device IOS

Error: an i/o subsystem driver failed to load either a
file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt, or the
system is low on memory. System halted.

Thanks.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Here's a few things to try.

Boot the system and start pressing F8, this should bring up a menu, select
"Last Known Good Configuration"

If that doesn't work, try the recovery console, assuming you
have a retail version or full OEM version of XP as opposed to the
manufacturer's recovery disks that don't have this option though they might
offer their own recover
scenario.

Be sure your system is set to boot from the CD. If you are not sure, when
the system first boots you usually see message about how to enter setup or
something similar and tells you to hit a key, sometimes it's del, sometimes
it's esc, just hit the key. This takes you to the system bios, you need to
navigate to where the boot sequence is set, put the CD-ROM drive first in
line.

Place the XP CD in the drive, save your settings and exit. The system will
reboot and should boot from the CD. If you see a message to hit any key in
order to boot from the CD, do so, otherwise, assuming your system supports
it, the system should boot from the CD on its own as it can't find
an OS on the hard drive.

XP Setup will begin by examining your system, don't worry, just let it run,
it's just copying some files to a temp folder. Ultimately, you'll be
brought to a menu. Choose, "Repair a Windows XP installation using the
Recovery Console, press R.

You will be asked for an administrators password. This is not any of the
accounts you've created for XP. It's a hidden system account for which
users are asked only to create a password during setup. Most leave this
blank. If you left it blank, when asked for a password, just leave blank
and press enter.

At the prompt type bootcfg /rebuild and press enter.