PC will not boot-up, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

[Guest]

I cannot get my PC to boot up in any mode, even from the XP CD.
I've eventually tracked this down to the HDD, seems like corrupt boot area.
I've put the HDD in another PC but this PC requests that I format the drive
and will not allow access to the data. I cannot run chkdsk or any other
windows utility. The file system is now RAW.
Can anyone advise how I can get my data recovered or even better repair the
disc.

 

[Guest]

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!

I would suggest that you read up on MBR's. Just do a google search on MBR,
and focus on anything coming up that pertains to hard disk MBR's. It sounds
like this sector of your HDD has been somehow corrupted. I would also
strongly suggest that you go to Micorsofts knowledge base and do some
searching on the same subject of MBR's. There are of course a lot of other
things that could be going on, this is just the first thing that came to mind
when I read your message, plus I've had problems with MBR's a long long time
ago back when I was running just DOS and no windows environment.

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!

I hope this helps.

Lonnie

 

[Guest]

Robbo,

Be careful putting the disc in a good system. There is a killer virus out
that has the same effect. I am not saying this is your problem but if you are
only worried about the Data on the disc, it might pay for you to find it
elsewhere and discard the disc.
Again, I can't say for sure if this is your problem. Best of luck..
Ron

 

[Guest]

I have been having a problem when I start my computer I get an error message
that states I recently installed hardware or software that is causing a
problem. I restart in safe mode and run Spybot. I get a fix problem message

DSO Exploit 4 entries I fix that problem and I am able to get to
windows.

Widndows XP home edition Mike l

 

[Richard Urban]

EasyRecovery Professional from www.ontrack.com has a specific module for
recovering from a RAW partition. I have used it about 5-6 times for just
that. Each time I have had 100% recovery of the data.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

More than likely Mike, it is just because you have rebooted. The reason I
say this is because I used to run SpyBot all the time, just about everyday I
ran a scan and every single time that DSO EXPLOIT came up. It really doesn't
fix anything according to what I've read as it has already been taken care of
by MS. SpyBot, because it is free I'm assuming, just hasn't been
re-written/patched whatever you wanna call it, to include MS's patche(s) to
fix the DSO EXPLOIT. Do a google search on DSO EXPLOIT, and you'll see what
I mean. That's what I did a couple of months ago, and one of the results that
came up was actually about how that error comes up all the time with spybot.
I hope this helps.

Oh by the way, did you recently install hardware or software as the error
states, or what???


Lonnie

 

[Guest]

Guys,

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions. I reckon its just a corrupted
boot area.

I eventually bought another disc drive and rebuilt my system, configured the
corupt disk as a slave and bought some software - File Scavenger for $40 - to
recover my data. I think I've recovered almost all of my critical files now,
it took about 8 hours for 30Gb of data in over 100,000 files.
I haven't formatted the old drive yet but will clean it some time next week
when I know that I've recovered as much as I need.

Richard, why do you think you've needed to recover so often? I'm hoping
never to experience this problem again.
The one thing I've learnt is that I need to copy my key data on a regular
basis to avoid this type of issue.

Cheers to one and all for your thoughts and help.

Robbo

 

[Richard Urban]

Robbo,

I have used it on my clients computers, booting from the created
EasyRecovery Professional floppy disks to recover "their" information. I
have made a good amount of money doing it, by the way!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!