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Steve2581

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October 24th, 2006 18:00

Error message: ox000000D1, ox000000A etc - Possible hard drive problem??

I have been advised having posted this is the Windows XP forum that the below problem I have may be to do with my hard drive....any thoughts greatly appreciated.
 
I have recently been experiencing problems with the start up of Windows XP on my PC with the deadly blue screen with various error messages appearing during the start up and boot sequence.....they have included  OX000007E, 0XC000005, OX0000018, OXF7B7B440, OXF7B7B13C, OX000000C5 and OX00000044.  However the most common that appear are the OX000000A and OX000000D1 error messages with the usual driver_irql_not_less_or_equal and iastor.sys jargon accompaning these error messages. 
 
I have had a look at other forums and microsoft support information about the possible causes of these errors, however there has been no change, infact despite not changing any settings I now cannot do a system restore or more recently get into Windows itself even in Safe mode, which worries me slightly!
 
I am aware that I have very little memory left so am guessing that this may have something to do with it.  I naturally uninstalled recent hardware which may have introduced the problems I am experiencing, however this brought about no change.  I am happy to do a restore factory settings, however it would be nice to try and keep my current files.  I have heard that this may be possible using a particular cable which works by transfering files from my PC to another even with my PC completely off...not sure how true this is....?
 
I am pretty stuck as to what to try next so any theories on all of this from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

dbramlet

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October 25th, 2006 03:00

I'm sure you will get other post and advice. I don't know of a cable where you can just use and capture your files. May be one. But sounds to me like you drive is bad or windows is totally corrupt now. If you have access to another computer you can remove your old drive and set the jumpers on it to slave. Then connect it to be a slave drive for the bootable computer you are using. The boot up and go to windows explorer and see if you old drive is listed and if so you can copy your files there. Once copied to the other computer you can try to format that old drive and if it will not format then the drive is bad. You can use your computer by buying a new drive and installing your OS and get it running. Then try the above to recover files off the old one. One other thing, a drive must spin to work so take the cover off the computer, put your hand on top the drive and boot the computer. You can feel the drive spinning if it in fact does. If no spin then your drive is bad and all I said above on recovering old files will not work. A drive must spin to read it.
dbramlet

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