XP Won't Boot

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Rebecca Owens

This is the problem:

When booting up, I receive an error message that states:

Isass.exe -System Error

Object not found

Ok

Click the ok and the system reboots. It is a constant
cycle. I have tried Safe mode, Safe mode with command
prompt etc. Still I get the same thing. Any
suggestions????

Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
This is the problem:

When booting up, I receive an error message that states:

Isass.exe -System Error

Object not found

Ok

Click the ok and the system reboots. It is a constant
cycle. I have tried Safe mode, Safe mode with command
prompt etc. Still I get the same thing. Any
suggestions????

Thanks.
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slave the drive and recover the data ,that is the login
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security and when it goes fubar you are unlikely to get
back in.
 
Thanks for your input. I am currently trying to get the
install cd's from Dell. Do not try this at home, my
friend. It is a nightmare.

I will try to slave to get the data but may just have to
dump the whole thing.
 
sue said:
I seem to have this problem. constant cycle of reboots. Since it
looks like this is an XP problem or a trojan, I need to get my data
off before I reload XP. You refer to "slave" drive to get the data -
can you explain how to do that?
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Please quote some of the previous post next time. To slave a hard drive,
you use a different, working computer. If your XP was installed using
the ntfs file system, the host computer needs to either be running XP
or a FAT32 system and allow booting with a Linux disk like Knoppex.
Easiest for a home user not used to Linux is the former. Shut down the
sick computer and remove the hard drive. Look at the back where the
power connector and IDE cable go. You'll see an area that has a little
plastic covering called a jumper. Make a note of the settings as they
are now. You need to move the jumper to set the drive as slave. If
there is no jumper legend on the drive itself, you can go to the drive
mftr.'s website and look up the jumper settings there.

Then take the properly jumpered drive and attach it in the slave
position in the (shut down and opened) host computer. When you boot
that computer, the slave hard drive should show up. If you are using XP
and that computer normally only has one drive, you would then have your
C: drive and a new D: drive. This is just an example, YMMV. Now you can
drag data from the slave drive to the C: drive with Explorer just as
you would from any drive. Burn the data to a cd. This step isn't
necessary if both computers are on a network. After the data is
rescued, shut down, remove the slave drive, restore the jumper to its
original setting, put the drive in the other machine, boot with the XP
cd, delete partitions, format, clean install Windows, whatever. This is
far easier and less time-consuming to do than it was to write about it,
but if it sounds daunting, take the computer to a good local computer
repair shop (not a BestBuy or CompUSA store).

HTH,

Malke
 
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