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Anyone seen this XP problem?

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fastman

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Did a fresh install of XP Pro lastnight. Occasionally I get two errors! The first one with BSOD was

"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"

the hard drive is used and and had a privious install of ME & XP on it.

Second is another BSOD with

"STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll"

These errors I get when booting up or re-starting after installing something. The BSOD happens before the splash sceen. I can restart, it boots normally and it takes?

Would a repair or reinstall help? Thanks in advance.
 
Apparently you did not do a "fresh" install. Had you installed on a clean newly formatted drive, that message would not have been possible.

I just finished 3 installations of XP Pro. The first was on a freshly formatted disk . . . totally clean. When it was done everything worked, but I had nothing except the OS. Bummer!

Then I did the upgrade route on a backup drive, and it was perfect, and I had a complete system afterwards that could go directly on line and get the updates. So I followed that with the other two systems and the upgrade path worked best for me.

The key was prepping the drive ahead of time by getting rid of all software that are known not to work or cause a problem. Some are good, but they have to be installed from scratch in XP (Norton Sys Wks,McAfee Vscan, and OmniPage Pro 11.)
 
The drive was formated. I also went on line and installed all the updates that's all. Would a reinstall solve the problem do you think?
 
It is sounding suspiciously like you have a hard drive problem. Each brand has its own utility for checking and testing the drive. With IBM drives it is IBM FTOOL, and it can be downloaded. It will even rehab your drive with a complete low level formatting. Of course, that wipes everything clean.

If you started with a newly formatted drive, then the existence of a previous OS has no bearing on the problem, because it isn't there any more.

Reinstalling over what you have might work if the problem is the software installation. If it is hardware, then that won't help.
 
When I want to ensure my hard drive is wiped slick, I always use fdisk to remove all the partitions first. Then create a new partition and run format. Not the quick format either. The long one, where you have time to do stuff while you're waiting like make coffee, you know, paint the house, invent a new alloy. Stuff like that.
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