Drive inaccessible with x00000024 STOP error

[Guest]

Issue: After upgrading to a new hard disk successfully-ish and then restoring
a drive image I now have a x00000024 STOP error which prevents me also
getting into safe mode and the Recovery Console or anything.

Train of events: I set up the new 300GB Maxtor drive with 3 partitions, as
with the old disk. I put the old disk in as slave and copied the partitions
over using ‘MaxBlast 4’ after having formatted them to NTFS with that utility.

So far so good? Booted normally. Access to all data fine BUT odd icons for
programs missing AND Outlook insisting on re-activation using update file
which was missing…. AND System Restore inaccessible (error message again
mentioning missing files.

So, I copied back an up-to-date Drive Image (Powerquest). It copied across
fine BUT at the end when it goes through file checking the progress bar shot
back a bit, the program said it was trying to resize the file structure (?)
and seemingly crashed and rebooted to the x00000024 error. Tried again with
same result. Now, interestingly (if that’s the right word) the Drive Image
Restore Environment reports the boot partition as being unnamed and with no
file system (NTFS). The other 2 partitions are correctly reported?

Goal: To get the system copied back using the drive images without having
to reinstall all the hardware and programs for a rather complicated set-up.
The original HDD has been re-partitioned and so contains nothing. My data is
backed up on an external HDD.

Any help greatly appreciated and any ideas as to why Drive Image tried to
resize the file structure and how I can prevent this from happening if I can
get to have an another attempt?

Many thanks.

Steve

 

[DL]

24 stop msg is usually as a result of currupt file, ntfs.sys. Can also be
caused by physical hd errs.
As a first step visit Maxtor site and download and run their checking
utility

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try the Maxtor checking utility. I take it that this is PowerMax?

Steve

 

[DL]

I believe so.
PS Sometimes using a third party utility to prepare a hd, as apposed to the
methods supplied on the win install cd, can cause problems. I have seen such
problems that were cured by using the win cd to partition/format instead.
Why........? I dont know.