Windows XP BSOD goes by too fast to see..

[TheVrolok]

So I was screwing with my partitions because I need another one, so I went about creating an logical partition and upon reboot Partition Magic errored and rebooted, now Windows won't boot, just BSODs but the BSOD just comes on and it instantly reboots, I don't even get a second to look at it. Is there a way I can slow it down somehow? It's not big deal, I can easily reformat my Windows partition because the only thing I use it for is playing DVDs (Until I find better Linux DVD playing software)..

 

[stash]

Right click on my computer, go to properties. Then go to advanced and click on the advanced button at the bottom (startup and recovery). Then uncheck the box under system failure that says automatically restart.

Edit: nevermind, the system wont boot. Can you get into safe mode?

 

[MedicBob]

Try a repair, but I think you hosed it. I was doing a similar operation last week and got pretty much what you have now. I reinstalled after setting the partitions how I wanted them.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: STaSh
Right click on my computer, go to properties. Then go to advanced and click on the advanced button at the bottom (startup and recovery). Then uncheck the box under system failure that says automatically restart.

Edit: nevermind, the system wont boot. Can you get into safe mode?

Can't do that .. 'cause I can't boot into windows, hence the BSOD.

nod, doesn't look like I can do much, I think I'll just reformat and reinstall.

 

[djdrastic]

A riskier approach would be to boot into recovery console and launch these commands and see ehat happens


chkdsk
diskpart --> And Check how your partititions look
Warning ! ! ! Do not try these unless you have to
fixboot
And Even More Dangerous
fixmbr

 

[Captain4]

If you have another computer that you could hook the drive into as a slave, you could open the event log on the faulting computer to get the text of the error. Just open the .evt file from the slave drive in the Event Viewer on the other PC. Should be able to find an entry in the System Log related to the crash.