Jon
December 6th 03, 10:21 AM
Can you boot off the winxp cd and run the install, but
tell it to just repair? This should take care of the
corrupt file.
Jon
>-----Original Message-----
>I am running WinXP with SP1. Last night there was a major
power outage
>in my building while i was using my comp. I have two
windows partitions:
>one NTFS (C:) and the other FAT32 (D:). After the power
came on, I
>chose every option to try and start windows and everytime
it restarted.
>Everytime it restarted I caught a glimpse of a blue
screen w/ some info
>about whats wrong w/ the system but I couldn't read it
fast enough. I
>got out my windows installation disk and ran the recovery
program. The
>blue screen came up and stayed on this time. It says
under the
>"technical information:" ntfs.sys - address F72CF943 base
at F72c000,
>datestamp 3b7dc5d0. And there it was stuck; it wouldnt go
into recovery
>mode or anything; just stay there until i restart. I
searched with
>google and it seems that in several places the suggested
solution to
>this problem was to copy the ntfs.sys file from xp cd on
to the
>/system32/drivers/ folder (where ntfs.sys resides). But
the problem is
>how do i achieve this? I have linux installed and i can
acess the
>windows partitions; put linux has only read capability of
NTFS; and i
>have thought of using a WIN98 boot disk but i believe
since its a dos
>based, it cant access ntfs either.
>
>Could somoone plz help me out of this quandry!!
>
>ASiF
>
>.
>
tell it to just repair? This should take care of the
corrupt file.
Jon
>-----Original Message-----
>I am running WinXP with SP1. Last night there was a major
power outage
>in my building while i was using my comp. I have two
windows partitions:
>one NTFS (C:) and the other FAT32 (D:). After the power
came on, I
>chose every option to try and start windows and everytime
it restarted.
>Everytime it restarted I caught a glimpse of a blue
screen w/ some info
>about whats wrong w/ the system but I couldn't read it
fast enough. I
>got out my windows installation disk and ran the recovery
program. The
>blue screen came up and stayed on this time. It says
under the
>"technical information:" ntfs.sys - address F72CF943 base
at F72c000,
>datestamp 3b7dc5d0. And there it was stuck; it wouldnt go
into recovery
>mode or anything; just stay there until i restart. I
searched with
>google and it seems that in several places the suggested
solution to
>this problem was to copy the ntfs.sys file from xp cd on
to the
>/system32/drivers/ folder (where ntfs.sys resides). But
the problem is
>how do i achieve this? I have linux installed and i can
acess the
>windows partitions; put linux has only read capability of
NTFS; and i
>have thought of using a WIN98 boot disk but i believe
since its a dos
>based, it cant access ntfs either.
>
>Could somoone plz help me out of this quandry!!
>
>ASiF
>
>.
>