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| Thread ID: 86939 | 2008-02-02 02:26:00 | Is BSD inescapable? inmountable_boot_volume | jarques (4877) | Press F1 |
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| 636444 | 2008-02-02 02:26:00 | Using a Dell Dimension 9100, XP Home edition, have about 70GB of music on two hard-drives totalling about 135GB. MS Media Player 11 started playing up by skipping from tune to tune at speed without playing any of them. Couldn't find any solution by internet checks. Decided to remove and re-install. Did so. Also installed latest version of Winamp as I was going to look at a process of controlling my iPod through it (didn't do so). Then, as I had a new 250GB standalone hard-drive sitting there, I started to download files into from my D drive. Transferred some small files OK. Then began with the large My Music file and went to bed leaving the PC to it. This morning, checked the D drive and K drive (standalone). It said transfer had taken place. Shortly afterwards, Blue Screen of Death descended with inmountable_boot_volume notification. Tried various stuff, rebooting with F8, last working configuration etc as I moved between the blue and black screens to no avail. I cannot reach Safe Mode. I disconnected the K drive but had no effect. Any thoughts folks (I'm not near my PC at the moment)? |
jarques (4877) | ||
| 636445 | 2008-02-02 02:42:00 | Check to make sure you're booting from the right hdd in the BIOS. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 636446 | 2008-02-02 02:44:00 | Haha, bloody WMP11 | --Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 636447 | 2008-02-02 03:16:00 | Skipping tracks without playing them usually means it can't access the file or it can't read it properly. That error is usually caused by corrupt filesystem - so It would be worth booting from the CD and running recovery console and then CHKDSK with /R switch. But it's not good to run CHKDSK if your drive is actually faulty as it may screw things up even more Might be worth downloading Seatools (assuming you have a seagate drive) and checking for problems, if there's nothing critical then run CHKDSK. Note that faulty RAM can also cause corrupt files - so running memtest first may be worth it too |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 636448 | 2008-02-02 04:37:00 | Thanks guys; I'll try your suggestions when I get home | jarques (4877) | ||
| 636449 | 2008-02-02 17:17:00 | Thank you very much Agent_24 (you have my grateful permission to advance your agent rating to 99+ should you wish). The CD boot did the trick (though I had to work out to go to F12 first to access the options) and the blue screen is no more. My girlfriend's XP PC went haywire recently, switching off constantly with screen pyrotechnics. Her PC repairer said it was a Windows fault, obviously did a CD boot and charged $130 for "two hours work." It wasn't just that as the fault continued. I found two Windows32/heur viruses that had arrived when she downloaded an attachment from a friend in Australia. Their elimination fixed it. The same company sold her the desktop with an expensive PC camera. The latter clearly states on its packaging it is for use with laptops! Anyway, thanks again for everyone's interest and help. |
jarques (4877) | ||
| 636450 | 2008-02-02 20:25:00 | Good to see you sorted the problem - it was chkdsk then that fixed it? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 636451 | 2008-02-06 01:20:00 | Yes it was. Thanx again | jarques (4877) | ||
| 636452 | 2008-02-06 02:04:00 | The same company sold her the desktop with an expensive PC camera. The latter clearly states on its packaging it is for use with laptops! errrrrrrrrrr.........but theres NO practical difference as far as a camera is concerned the machines possibly have the same or similar hardware just that they look different theres no such thing as a camera for laptops or desktops theyr'e STILL computers.......the camera wont know the difference |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 636453 | 2008-02-06 09:50:00 | Yes it was. Thanx again No worries, good to see you got it working :thumbs: |
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