"Blue screen" troubles

[imported_miahallen]

I get the blue screen with an error in the ntfs.sys during boot. My computer won't boot under safe mode, won't "revert back to last known good config" or anything. I have two OS's on two seperate HDDs (one SATA and the other PATA) and both are giving me the same error with different memory address references. I also had weird things going one while the machine was still operational, random files on any of it's three HDs would become corrupt (pictures would become visibly fragmented, videos would have wierd digital noise introduced into them). I've previously tried reformattiong, and like I said, I have two OS's (XP Home, and MCE 2005), and I have the same problems regardless. But the problem I'm having now is even preventing me from reformatting again. When I boot from the Windows install CD, it gets to when it says "Starting Windows" and then says "examining 152626MB disk 0 at id 0 on bus 0 on si3112r" and then I get the blue screen again?

So I think this is a hardware problem. But is it in the mobo (the SATA controller card is a PCI expansion card) or the SATA controller. I'm pretty sure it's not all three HDD's right? Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[Andres3605]

unplug the SATA drive and try the PATA , then in the recovery console type Fixboot

 

[imported_miahallen]

OK, I tried this and it booted XP Home from the PATA drive properly, does this mean my SATA controller card is no good? And since it booted fine, I don't need to "fixboot" right?

 

[Bozo Galora]

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20608326.html

the way you access the answers in the above link is to scroll down past the question and then the ads

FWIW: You are spanning 2 O/S accross 2 HDD, and not only that, they are different protocols SATA and IDE.
IDE takes precedence over SATA (which is considered SCSI by O/S)
So if you install O/S to SATA first, then IDE, IDE will take over "C" drive letter and mix up all your associations.
You may also have a bad sector on one HDD, or FAT32 NTFS combo file systems.

Personally, if I was using IDE at all, I would make 2 O/S ONLY partitions on IDE "C" and "D", make both FAT32 or NTFS, make both 4.7GB for DVD backup and make a common 2GB "E" pagefile partition.

You are going to have to use manuf HDD utility CD disc (and set bios to boot from it) with each HDD plugged in separately by itself to do a checkdisc and reformat.

 

[imported_miahallen]

Thanks for the input, but this still doesn't help me identify the source or the problem. Both HDs are NTFS and The IDE OS was installed first. Also, I may not have been clear previously, but I had the system operational with the dual boot. And everything was working fine with the exception of the file corruption problem mentioned earlier.

I should also mention I do not with to keep the dual OS setup, I only had the XP Home OS as a backup in the event of a problem with my MCE installation. I was just about to reformat the IDE drive when this problem occured.

So, does anyone thik they might know what caused this problem in the first place. The file corruption problem. I have UPS power backup, and I haven't had any power problems. And the file corruption has been random accross all three drives and when using both OS's.