Major problem after converting from FAT 32 to NTFS -urgent help ne

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 9/18/2008 4:18 PM, and on a whim, razz pounded out

All is fine with heat issues. what you think of this page that I found - in
your opinion, is it worth just doing that ?
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Are you sure about the heat? Have you gone in to your BIOS and let the
computer sit for about 5-10 minutes and monitor the temp settings?

A Repair Install may or may not cure it. If you have the original CD
you could give it a try (not a recovery CD).

You could possibly try a program that has the capability to convert NTFS
to FAT32. I know Partition Magic can do it and there might be a free
alternative (for at least long enough for you to convert it) like BootIT NG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

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[sgopus]

Can you boot to your install cd?
if so, do that and let it sit waiting for you to respond for 5-7 minutes see
if it crashes on you, if not, then I suggest your hd has gotten corrupted
files and they need to be repaired, perform a repair install.

it wouldn't make sense for anything like hardware to go bad just because you
changed the file structure, but it does happen, if it does crash on you, then
I would think your hd has gone bad, any idea of how old it is?

 

[Alias]

The date and time was 9/18/2008 4:18 PM, and on a whim, razz pounded out


Are you sure about the heat? Have you gone in to your BIOS and let the
computer sit for about 5-10 minutes and monitor the temp settings?

A Repair Install may or may not cure it. If you have the original CD
you could give it a try (not a recovery CD).

You could possibly try a program that has the capability to convert NTFS
to FAT32. I know Partition Magic can do it and there might be a free
alternative (for at least long enough for you to convert it) like BootIT NG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

It's doubtful that whatever CD he has has SP3 so a repair install is out
of the question unless he slipstreams SP3.

Alias

 

[razz]

All problems seem to have been solved (a looong day/night trying tons of
things finally paid off) EXCEPT for one more problem that I need help to
solve. I have NO Internet connection. My modem and router are working fine
(so is my wife’s PC which is 3 ft. away from mine).

Here is my current status for settings in msconfig:

General Tab
I am using Selective Startup and have a check mark in Process SYSTEM.INI
File (so all items are checked under the SYSTEM,INI tab).

I am using Original BOOT.INI

I have enabled a few of the programs that I want to run under the Stratup tab.

WIN.INI Tab
I have all items listed disabled (i.e. not checked)

BOOT.INI Tab
Nothing checked so all disabled

Services Tab
Checkmark for only 3 items, as follows:

DCOM Service Process Launcher
(under Essential heading it says Yes) – (Under Status it says
Running).

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator
(under Essential heading it says Yes) - (under Status it says
Stopped).

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
(under Essential heading it says Yes) – (under Status it says
Running).


If anyone can suggest what to do to get Internet Connection, I would greatly
appreciate it!
I assume its just some setting or something I have to activate.

Thank you all for your help.

 

[razz]

GOOD news all, for me and I am sure for you too because now I won't be
bothering you with the problems I have had over the last 2 days.

All has been fixed. My PC is running like new, Internet connection and all.

Thank you all for all your support and help regarding all my issues. I
really, really appreciate it. You guys are the best!

I will outline my fix, in case you are wondering and to close this subject
with a comment that may serve someone with a similar problem to mine:

What caused the blue screen coming up every 3 minutes or so after each
start-up was "dumprep 0-k", which has now been disabled. I gather this
certainly is not needed because dumpreg is for the message pop-up "program
has encountered an error and must close, to report this error to Microsoft,
click send".

I tried the following steps in order to totally get rid of it, but it still
shows up under startup items (but like I said, now its disabled), but these
steps may work well for others:

Right click My Computer and select Properties, now click the Advanced Tab,
look under Startup and Recovery, click Settings, down towards the bottom
there is a drop down box under Write Debugging Information, click the arrow
and select none and make sure that the word None stays in the box and click
ok, now click the Error Reporting button and choose Disable Error Reporting.
Now click OK and Ok.

Now go to start, search Local Drive, search for *.DMP and delete the files
that it fines, empty recycle bin.

Now run MSCONFIG and see if that program is still in the startup area, if
it's gone great, if not you may need to edit the registry:

Start Run type regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Select
KernelFaultCheck name and hit delete.

So after I disabled “dumprep 0-k†all worked fine on my PC but I did not
have Internet connection. To finally solve that problem I contacted my
Internet provider and he was able to help fix the problem. This was the fix:

Click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network
Connections

Now “LAN or High – Speed Internet “ window opens and shows Local Area
Connection.
It should say Connected. If not then right – click and click disable.
Reboot. Get back to same place then right – click and click on Enable. Now
Local Area Connection should say Connected and now you should have Internet
connection.

Hopefully this may be of some help to some people.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 9/20/2008 8:48 AM, and on a whim, razz pounded out

GOOD news all, for me and I am sure for you too because now I won't be
bothering you with the problems I have had over the last 2 days.

All has been fixed. My PC is running like new, Internet connection and all.

Thank you all for all your support and help regarding all my issues. I
really, really appreciate it. You guys are the best!

I will outline my fix, in case you are wondering and to close this subject
with a comment that may serve someone with a similar problem to mine:

What caused the blue screen coming up every 3 minutes or so after each
start-up was "dumprep 0-k", which has now been disabled. I gather this
certainly is not needed because dumpreg is for the message pop-up "program
has encountered an error and must close, to report this error to Microsoft,
click send".

I tried the following steps in order to totally get rid of it, but it still
shows up under startup items (but like I said, now its disabled), but these
steps may work well for others:

Right click My Computer and select Properties, now click the Advanced Tab,
look under Startup and Recovery, click Settings, down towards the bottom
there is a drop down box under Write Debugging Information, click the arrow
and select none and make sure that the word None stays in the box and click
ok, now click the Error Reporting button and choose Disable Error Reporting.
Now click OK and Ok.

Now go to start, search Local Drive, search for *.DMP and delete the files
that it fines, empty recycle bin.

Now run MSCONFIG and see if that program is still in the startup area, if
it's gone great, if not you may need to edit the registry:

Start Run type regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Select
KernelFaultCheck name and hit delete.

So after I disabled “dumprep 0-k†all worked fine on my PC but I did not
have Internet connection. To finally solve that problem I contacted my
Internet provider and he was able to help fix the problem. This was the fix:

Click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network
Connections

Now “LAN or High – Speed Internet “ window opens and shows Local Area
Connection.
It should say Connected. If not then right – click and click disable.
Reboot. Get back to same place then right – click and click on Enable. Now
Local Area Connection should say Connected and now you should have Internet
connection.

Hopefully this may be of some help to some people.

Hi Razz,

You didn't mention how the blue screen issue was resolved. Did you
perform a repair install?

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