ntfs.sys problem won't let me boot - even from XP CD!

[stewart.midwinter]

My wife's laptop may have a flaky power supply, because it blinked off
when she moved it today. After that, it would no longer boot. When
started in safe mode, it got as far as alim1541.sys and then stopped.

I tried booting from the Windows XP CD so I could get into the repair
facility, and as soon as I selected R for repair, Windows brought up a
BSoD with a stop: 0x00000024 error (ntfs.sys).

When I try to instead just reinstall Windows, I get the same result:
stop on ntfs.sys.

When I try booting with a Bart PE CD, I get the same result.

What can I do to make this drive usable? I've got half a mind to use my
Ubuntu Linux Live CD to just reformat the drive, or switch it to FAT32,
but I'd think it would be embarrassing for Microsoft that the only way
out of a problem that Windows created is to use Linux.

Any ideas?

thanks
S

 

[Rock]

My wife's laptop may have a flaky power supply, because it blinked off
when she moved it today. After that, it would no longer boot. When
started in safe mode, it got as far as alim1541.sys and then stopped.

I tried booting from the Windows XP CD so I could get into the repair
facility, and as soon as I selected R for repair, Windows brought up a
BSoD with a stop: 0x00000024 error (ntfs.sys).

When I try to instead just reinstall Windows, I get the same result:
stop on ntfs.sys.

When I try booting with a Bart PE CD, I get the same result.

What can I do to make this drive usable? I've got half a mind to use my
Ubuntu Linux Live CD to just reformat the drive, or switch it to FAT32,
but I'd think it would be embarrassing for Microsoft that the only way
out of a problem that Windows created is to use Linux.

Any ideas?

thanks
S

Take a look here.
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
0x00000024: NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM

Do you really think anyone cares how you fix it?

 

[BigJim]

could be a bad drive, if it is Linux won't help.

 

[Guest]

Hello , I agree with BigJim . Also , When I suspect strange activity like you
have described , I start transferring the Hard Drive data to a Backup
Drive/External Drive A.S.A.P. .

 

[HeyBub]

My wife's laptop may have a flaky power supply, because it blinked off
when she moved it today. After that, it would no longer boot. When
started in safe mode, it got as far as alim1541.sys and then stopped.

I tried booting from the Windows XP CD so I could get into the repair
facility, and as soon as I selected R for repair, Windows brought up a
BSoD with a stop: 0x00000024 error (ntfs.sys).

When I try to instead just reinstall Windows, I get the same result:
stop on ntfs.sys.

When I try booting with a Bart PE CD, I get the same result.

What can I do to make this drive usable? I've got half a mind to use
my Ubuntu Linux Live CD to just reformat the drive, or switch it to
FAT32, but I'd think it would be embarrassing for Microsoft that the
only way out of a problem that Windows created is to use Linux.

Any ideas?

Do you think Linux will fix a "flaky power supply?"

Well, it might. I've heard people claim Linux is good for bee stings,
drought, low oil pressure in a 1956 De Soto, and killing weeds.

 

[stewart.midwinter]

thanks for all the replies - unfortunately, nothing I can use there to
fix the problem. To those that suggested that the drive might be caca
without asking how old it was, there's nothing helpful there. It's a
new drive just past its burn-in period, so hardware failure is
unlikely. the MS support site has several items on this problem, and
none of them suggest that hardware is the issue. It's a flaw in the
operating system that causes this problem! (a power interruption hosed
my access to the drive)

I was lucky to find a blog posting on a german enthusiast's site that
helped me solve the problem. Knoppix (a Linux Live CD distro) includes
a utility called ntsfix that solved the problem with the drive after I
used cfdisk to rewrite the partition table on the drive. I then
rebooted and was able to restart Windows, running chkdsk to clean up
any final small issues.

I'm grateful for the existence of Linux otherwise my drive would have
been useless. Microsoft, a billion $ company, can't even figure out how
to provide its users with tools to fix the problems that its OS causes,
yet unpaid volunteers can.