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Hi all...
I'm currently tearing my hair out and getting somewhat fed up with xp...
I've a newish machine that I installed aprtition magic on and created a
couple of new partitions. Something went wrong, seriously wrong and I could
no longer boot my computer (possibly not related to the partitioning... I
don't know).
Anyway, I finally decided the best thing to do was to start afresh... I have
the xp installation cd-rom, so I want to wipe the disk clean and reinstall
from scratch. However, when i try to boot from the cd-rom, it goes through
the loading drivers, etc., but when it gets to Starting Windows, I get a
blue screen... The page-fault-in-unpaged-area error message is given with
the technicial information (if it's worth anything) at the bottom:
*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0x98891BFD, 0x00000000, 0x98891BFD, 0x00000000)
I can't seem to get anywhere other than this.
It may be due to the way I've formatted the drive, perhaps, but I can't find
anything that suggests how else I might do it - in the end I had to use
fdisk. And nowhere ca\n I find any information on how to install xp if there
are problems with the cd-rom so that I can't get to the welcome screen.
If anyone can suggest things to try or places I can look (I seem to have
exhausted the microsoft support site without luck) I'd be very (very!)
grateful.
tia
chris
I'm currently tearing my hair out and getting somewhat fed up with xp...
I've a newish machine that I installed aprtition magic on and created a
couple of new partitions. Something went wrong, seriously wrong and I could
no longer boot my computer (possibly not related to the partitioning... I
don't know).
Anyway, I finally decided the best thing to do was to start afresh... I have
the xp installation cd-rom, so I want to wipe the disk clean and reinstall
from scratch. However, when i try to boot from the cd-rom, it goes through
the loading drivers, etc., but when it gets to Starting Windows, I get a
blue screen... The page-fault-in-unpaged-area error message is given with
the technicial information (if it's worth anything) at the bottom:
*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0x98891BFD, 0x00000000, 0x98891BFD, 0x00000000)
I can't seem to get anywhere other than this.
It may be due to the way I've formatted the drive, perhaps, but I can't find
anything that suggests how else I might do it - in the end I had to use
fdisk. And nowhere ca\n I find any information on how to install xp if there
are problems with the cd-rom so that I can't get to the welcome screen.
If anyone can suggest things to try or places I can look (I seem to have
exhausted the microsoft support site without luck) I'd be very (very!)
grateful.
tia
chris