Extremely Weird Constant Loop Re-boot issue

[bob4432]

my machine in sig has been working fine, no issues until this morning. last night i shut it down no issue, this morning i started it up to only have it do a reboot loop. when i try it in safe mode i get a "press the esc key to stop loading sptd.sys", which i have tried with no difference, the machine just reboots. i read up on sptd.sys and found that it is related to daemon tools, which i do run, but have for many months/years without a hitch. i recently installed the student versions of solidworks 2k6 and autocad, but since their install i have rebooted without any issues. i run of a scsi hdd and all the scsi post screens are exactly normal. i run av/spyware (the newest version of antivir, ad-aware and spybot all updated at least 1x/week) at least 1x/wk and occassionally will have some issues, but nothing that the software doesn't catch.

any ideas as to what is going on with this? i have a relatively recent image of the hdd, but would like to get a couple of files i created yesterday off the hdd as easily as possible, and they are small files, so they could transfer to a floppy, which i have but not sure about the scsi issue, i run a lsiu160 card. i do have a copy of knoppix linux. could i put in the knoppix disc, copy the files to a floppy or flash drive, then just put my latest image back on? or is there a way i can fix my current issue while viewing/editing files from within mepis?

thanks in advance for your time

 

[bob4432]

i think i found the problem. it appears that it is the 80->68pin adapter on my 15k hdd. i opened up the machine and noticed that there is some movement with the way the adapter connects to the cable, so i pushed it back in nice and tight and viola, booted right up. unfortunately now my scsi hdds are showing up a 40MB/s and not 160MB which is the max for the card, but the hdds are u320.

so i am removing the 18GB hdd and making the 36GB the system drive since it is native 68pin.