XP-Pro Rebooting...Rebooting...Repost

[wjell]

I have a client running XP-Pro whose laptop started
continually rebooting. I tried to do a repair with the XP
CD and blue screened after I choose repair with the
message:

"Windows repair has detected a problem and must shut
down...bla..bla.

STOP 0x00000024

ntfs.sys - Address FCDE9857 base at FC0DF000

OK. I put the laptop drive into a tower already running
XP-Pro (with no problem) and it started doing the same
thing (continually rebooting)

OK. Thinking it might be some weird boot thing, I ghosted
an image of the drive to a partition on the tower. Still
the same thing.

My problem of course, is I can't get to the drive (now a
non-active partition) I can't recover the data.

What am I missing? Probably something really obvious.

Thanks,

Bill

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Maybe it is infected with the MSBlaster worm
see
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

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[Ali]

If you can run the comman prompt and type "shutdown -a"
without the quotation marks. This will abort the shutdown
process thus allowing you to update the patch from the
microsoft site.

 

[Glenn Eaton]

Try pressing F-10 while it is starting up. It worked for me after I tried to
get it to do a chkdsk command and it continually re-booted.