Hi guys =] My computer broke a while back, so I bought a new system, and placed my old hard drive within that system. It works a treat, other than the fact that quite often, why I try to startup, it performs a search for corrupt files, and then, again, quite often, the computer randomly restarts (as it would if there had been a power cut). When it reloads windows, it says that the system has recovered from a serious error, and when I get more information, it gives me this error account: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011308-01.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\Matt\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml I ran tweaknow, to try to clean the registry a little, but is there anything more specific I could do to help my problem? Thanks a lot in advance =]
Can you reply and attach (by browsing to) C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011308-01.dmp This file may help in diagnosing the error
Inside DMP file Could not read faulting driver name Probably caused by : ntoskrnl.exe ( nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+770 ) Sorry, this DMP file is not a good reference to what is happening You will need to post more of them - ideally zipped up in one file
Another two restarts today... C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011608-02.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\Matt\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml The zipped file is too large, so I'll have to do them singularly. Sorry =/ I've uploaded the minidump from the last error, wonder if that helps Thanks for your amazing help thus far =]
Inside the DMP file: This type of fault can be repaired by : Full Check Disk on your drive Do a full Defrag of your drive Is this drive NTFS ? (if not type: CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS at the command line) Running Memtest on your Ram Also MS has addressed this error and solution HERE Please reply back once these things are done
I did all of the above, and still the problem persists, and I'm having major errors with other games and such. Will I need to replace the hard drive? =/
That would likely fix it But before you go out and purchase another drive Do a full back up (likely already done, I hope) Run a full Repair on Windows Mind you if the drive is 80Gig capacity or under, I'd replace it.