I encountered an unfamiliar problem last night. I recently discovered the extra power cable / 4 pin connector on my AGP card is loose. It is actually the retention clip on the card that has the problem. When I moved another cable, the power cable came off AGP card and the PC froze. When I rebooted I had a real hard-drive problem.
XP is loaded on the 2nd partition or D drive. C, E,F are basically data and apps.
XP would not load - - ntoskrnl.exe missing from windows root \ system32
I booted from the XP cd, and tried going the recovery route. That did not work because the D drive was empty with errors.
From the recovery console, I tried chkdsk and also with /p with /r. It would only come back "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems." (FYI: chkdsk has different parameters under the recovery console than it does under XP ). Doing a DIR would return "an error occured during directory enumeration."
Eventually, I tried fixmbr, but it did not help.
I used The Ultimate Boot CD to at least access my computer. It reported D: as a 1mb partition. GParted could see the partition as the correct size 27GB, but it could not tell if it was unformatted or just had errors. The other drive letters were working. This told me something is wrong with D: partition.
I could not figure out how to fix the problem, so I used GParted to format the partition again. I reinstalled XP to the same partition. Five automated XP updates later, so far so good.
Can somebody tell me how I was supposed to fix the problem?
Dig
XP is loaded on the 2nd partition or D drive. C, E,F are basically data and apps.
XP would not load - - ntoskrnl.exe missing from windows root \ system32
I booted from the XP cd, and tried going the recovery route. That did not work because the D drive was empty with errors.
From the recovery console, I tried chkdsk and also with /p with /r. It would only come back "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems." (FYI: chkdsk has different parameters under the recovery console than it does under XP ). Doing a DIR would return "an error occured during directory enumeration."
Eventually, I tried fixmbr, but it did not help.
I used The Ultimate Boot CD to at least access my computer. It reported D: as a 1mb partition. GParted could see the partition as the correct size 27GB, but it could not tell if it was unformatted or just had errors. The other drive letters were working. This told me something is wrong with D: partition.
I could not figure out how to fix the problem, so I used GParted to format the partition again. I reinstalled XP to the same partition. Five automated XP updates later, so far so good.
Can somebody tell me how I was supposed to fix the problem?
Dig
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