Desperate
December 11th 03, 11:31 PM
John,
Thanks for the tip but unfortunately it didn't work. But
I do have some good news and this is how it happened.
I tried your tip of booting from the CD but that didn't
work. So I booted the pc ito 'Safe mode with Networking'
the idea being to get the peer to peer network with the
laptop running, transfer or copy all the important stuff
to the laptop then do a fresh instal.
I was having a prob with the NICs in the pc so someone
else in another part of this Newsgroup suggested I
uninstal and reinstal the NICs which I did. Not only did
the NICs start working but the pc also rebooted
successfully twice.
It was not to be third time lucky though. I got the blue
screen of death on the third time. So I looked up the
Microsoft knowledge base for the specific error code the
Stop Error gave me and followed the instructions there.
That involved the Recovery Console and using the command
CHKDSK /R.
Since then the pc has been booting up successfully every
time but the NIC's in each machine, although now working
won't talk to to each other but that's a problem for
another bottle of whiskey and I've already been given some
tips on how to fix that.
In the meantime if anyone from Microsoft is reading this
how about a GUI in Recovery Console? It would make things
a lot easier for us idiots on the outside. Just visualise
it, it's possible.
Thanks for you help everyone.
>-----Original Message-----
>How about using the XP installation CD to repair the OS
>already on the machine? If you already know how to do
>this and I'm insulting your intellagence then I
>apologise. But if you don't know how then here's the
>basic instrucitons.
>
>Boot from installation CD. Select the option that seems
>to suggest completely reinstalling XP and erasing the
>current copy (top one). Don't bother using the repair
>consule, this is easier. Select the partition the
current
>OS is on and press enter to install XP on this
partition.
>The Cd will then warn you that an existing OS is already
>installed and ask if you want to repair it or install
from
>scratch. Select repair existing OS.
>
>See if that fixes it.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am running a stand-alone with XP-Pro that has a peer
to
>>peer network with a laptop running XP home. The desktop
>>was recently hit with worm_bugbear.a and bugbear.b
>>viruses in the 24 hour period between expiry of old
virus
>>scanner license and purchase of new one.
>>
>>After following the virus scanning software vendor's
>>instructions for deleting the viruses I performed a
>>defrag. Now pc will boot as far as Windows welcome
>>screen and then switch off.
>>
>>I have tried running system file checker '/scannow'
>>in "Safe mode with command prompt" but get the following
>>message:
>>
>>"Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of
>>protected system files. The specific error code is
>>0x000006ba [The RPC server is unavailable.]"
>>
>>I can't imagine why the pc is looking for the RPC
>>server. Any clues???
>>.
>>
>.
Thanks for the tip but unfortunately it didn't work. But
I do have some good news and this is how it happened.
I tried your tip of booting from the CD but that didn't
work. So I booted the pc ito 'Safe mode with Networking'
the idea being to get the peer to peer network with the
laptop running, transfer or copy all the important stuff
to the laptop then do a fresh instal.
I was having a prob with the NICs in the pc so someone
else in another part of this Newsgroup suggested I
uninstal and reinstal the NICs which I did. Not only did
the NICs start working but the pc also rebooted
successfully twice.
It was not to be third time lucky though. I got the blue
screen of death on the third time. So I looked up the
Microsoft knowledge base for the specific error code the
Stop Error gave me and followed the instructions there.
That involved the Recovery Console and using the command
CHKDSK /R.
Since then the pc has been booting up successfully every
time but the NIC's in each machine, although now working
won't talk to to each other but that's a problem for
another bottle of whiskey and I've already been given some
tips on how to fix that.
In the meantime if anyone from Microsoft is reading this
how about a GUI in Recovery Console? It would make things
a lot easier for us idiots on the outside. Just visualise
it, it's possible.
Thanks for you help everyone.
>-----Original Message-----
>How about using the XP installation CD to repair the OS
>already on the machine? If you already know how to do
>this and I'm insulting your intellagence then I
>apologise. But if you don't know how then here's the
>basic instrucitons.
>
>Boot from installation CD. Select the option that seems
>to suggest completely reinstalling XP and erasing the
>current copy (top one). Don't bother using the repair
>consule, this is easier. Select the partition the
current
>OS is on and press enter to install XP on this
partition.
>The Cd will then warn you that an existing OS is already
>installed and ask if you want to repair it or install
from
>scratch. Select repair existing OS.
>
>See if that fixes it.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am running a stand-alone with XP-Pro that has a peer
to
>>peer network with a laptop running XP home. The desktop
>>was recently hit with worm_bugbear.a and bugbear.b
>>viruses in the 24 hour period between expiry of old
virus
>>scanner license and purchase of new one.
>>
>>After following the virus scanning software vendor's
>>instructions for deleting the viruses I performed a
>>defrag. Now pc will boot as far as Windows welcome
>>screen and then switch off.
>>
>>I have tried running system file checker '/scannow'
>>in "Safe mode with command prompt" but get the following
>>message:
>>
>>"Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of
>>protected system files. The specific error code is
>>0x000006ba [The RPC server is unavailable.]"
>>
>>I can't imagine why the pc is looking for the RPC
>>server. Any clues???
>>.
>>
>.