Blue Screen....how to run chkdsk?

[alphasigmookie]

Ok i've got a series of problems that are driving me nuts!!!!

this morning when i turned on my system it seems to be blue screening on boot every time. My guess is that there is something wrong with the boot sector of my primary HD. I put in my windows disk to use the recovery console to run chkdsk, but it asks for my "administrator password"....As far as I know I DON'T HAVE ONE!!!! I built the system myself and only one of my log on's have been set up with a password and that password didn't work. I've tried any password i've ever really used (along with of course no password at all). Since I can't figure out the random password it won't let me do anything...since i can't get to windows I can't reset the password with one of my log-on names with administrator priviledges.

I tried using a Dos bootdisk, but chkdsk doesn't work in dos aparently (although it does appear that the disk is ok). Does anyone know any tricks that will allow me to either reset the admin password, or run chkdsk without the password?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[RadiclDreamer]

A dos boot disk isnt going to help you since you likely have an NTFS partition and dos can only read FAT file systems.

As far as the admin password goes, it asked for one when you orignally installed the os, did you by chance leave it blank?

 

[alphasigmookie]

I thought I did, but if i leave the password blank it tells me that is an invalid password

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Reset it with this

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_...strator_password.htm#1

 

[robisbell]

how far along in the boot sequence are you getting before the problems arise?

 

[alphasigmookie]

Ok I figured out the password and ran chkdsk /r, it looked like it repaired a number of files, but it is still blue screening on boot. I had my system OC'd but turned the settings back to default, but that didn't seem to help. It blue screens while the windows xp logo is being displayed, right before it pulls up to log on screen. I've tried in safe mode but the same thing happens.

 

[robisbell]

ah hah!! you may have pushed the memory and burnt one of them out, or the processor.

 

[alphasigmookie]

I checked all my memory modules and they seem to be working. I'm pretty sure the processor isnt' fried, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to run chkdsk.

The error appears to be a
Stop 0x0000007E error

it looks like it's either a disk space or divice driver error. This may make sense because I was trying to install new nvidia drivers last night for my mobo and graphics card and the installation froze on both installations (stopped responding). My wife was bugging me so I didn't think anything of it and just shut the computer down.

Anyone have any idea how I can change/revert drivers when I can't boot? It doesn't seem to even boot in safe mode.

 

[robisbell]

http://www.softwarepatch.com/w...xp-stop-error-aec.html

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182

 

[alphasigmookie]

ok, so i'm definitely in a hole and I think it might be time to stop digging. I tried installing xp on my other HD and switched it to the master instead of the slave drive, but it says that it is not a bootable drive. Do I HAVE to format before installing windows? I didn't think I had to. It seems that both disks are still functional and i'd really perfer not to loose all the data on both.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer files from one disk to the other without making it into windows (then I could format one of the disks)? I guess another option would be to buy a whole new disk to install the OS on.

 

[alphasigmookie]

some mild sucess....i've gotten windows installed and working on the other drive...i can now selectively boot from each drive, but I still get BSOD if i try to boot from the original disk. The disk seems to be ok as I can acess the files on it from the new install. I guess at this point i can possibly give up on the old install. I've tried repairing it a couple of times using the XP install disk, but won't boot far enough to complete the repair process after restart.

Anyone know if there are ways of importing my old pofiles/programs from the old install to the new one? All my programs are still on the disks, but the new install windows has lost all the shortcuts and they don't show up in the start menu.

 

[robisbell]

no, you have to reinstall all software from scratch.