win xp crash, now xp wont boot up.

[druxboyzz]

i was in windows xp, and then my computer crashed. So it auto resets.. and while windows is loading and the windows logo pops up, the blue screen of death comes on which then resets the computer again. Its a never-ending cycle.

i took out some pci cards.. but it wasnt that. I took out the hard drive, and put it in my 2nd computer as a slave, and then that computer wont load up either, (blue screen/reset) ... i take it back out, and my 2nd computer works fine.

So, i think i have here in my hands, a corrupted hard drive? How can i go about fixing this?

i want to try and boot it up with a floppy disk and format it, but i dont have a boot disk made, know of a site?

solutions? thanks in advance

 

[KGB]

Try booting to your XP CD and repairing the install.

 

[druxboyzz]

yes, i tried that. while it was loading up the drivers from the boot cd, the blue screen comes up and says..

STOP: 0x000000024 bla bla NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM

Check hard drive config, Run chkdsk /f to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

i understand that part, but, how do i go about running the chkdsk /f
from what i think i know, since my hard drive is in ntfs format, i cant boot up in ms-dos and view my drives and therefore check them? anybody got a link to a boot disk site that lets me be able to run chkdsk ? thanks guys!

 

[ianbergman]

you can run chkdsk from the WinXP CD -- boot into the repair console from the CD (just press R, I think) -- that will give you access to your drive to do repair, or reformat, if you want.

 

[druxboyzz]

yea, i tried that, but it wont even let the cd finish loading before it says..

a device driver has corrupted the executive memory pool..

 

[SpanishFry]

You could try Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt

 

[MrYogi]

I do not think it would boot into Safe Mode either. I had a similar problem before. I tried everything, but it would not work. I reinstalled WindowsXP on the top of the existing one, recovered all my files and formatted the harddrive to install XP once again.