XP Repair install hangs, other woes

[Guest]

OK, this is wierd, last night I posted in the XP "Configuration and
Management" newsgroup, today I can't find the newsgroup. Oh well.

Repost - I have a Gateway 500S, P4, that suddenly went south. It blue
screened several times then wouldn't boot up at all. Used the Gateway OS CD,
checkdsk'd it, used repair console to get it to boot up somewhat. It will
boot very slowly to Windows, mouse doesn't work, very poor graphics - then
BSOD with 0x7F error. Haven't installed any hardware or drivers lately
except a Linksys router. Tried to do a repair install from the CD and it
gets to about 20% max and then says it can't copy the file. Won't copy any
others after that. Tried several times with same result. Sometimes it gets
to 5%, sometimes more, never stops at the same file. DIR of HD says 8.5GB
left on HD.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Adam Leinss]

OK, this is wierd, last night I posted in the XP "Configuration
and Management" newsgroup, today I can't find the newsgroup. Oh
well.

Repost - I have a Gateway 500S, P4, that suddenly went south. It
blue screened several times then wouldn't boot up at all. Used
the Gateway OS CD, checkdsk'd it, used repair console to get it to
boot up somewhat. It will boot very slowly to Windows, mouse
doesn't work, very poor graphics - then BSOD with 0x7F error.
Haven't installed any hardware or drivers lately except a Linksys
router. Tried to do a repair install from the CD and it gets to
about 20% max and then says it can't copy the file. Won't copy
any others after that. Tried several times with same result.
Sometimes it gets to 5%, sometimes more, never stops at the same
file. DIR of HD says 8.5GB left on HD.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Sounds like the hard drive is dying. STOP 0X7F is a kernel trap and
could be related to anything.

What did chkdsk show?

If you can, get a blank hard drive from a friend...see if you can
install XP clean. If it works, it's likely the other hard drive is
bad.

Adam