I tried going through the guide to stop error messages, but I wasn't making any progress. Hopefully someone can give me some guidance.
*HP desktop computer w/ Windows XP Home Edition
Problem: A couple days ago, while the computer was being used it would shutoff and restart automatically, without notice. It starting doing it more frequently so I automatically thought virus. But, I couldn't do the 8 steps because the computer would restart in the middle of the tests. Soon, the computer wouldn't even get past the startup screen before restarting. Once in a while it would start up all the way and then restart later. NOW, it won't get past the startup screen...just starts up, restarts, starts up, restarts etc. Not even Safe mode will work.
At that point, all I wanted was to save some documents off the drive and then reformat it. So I plugged the drive into another computer (as a secondard drive), but doing that caused the other computer to act the same way and I could not gain access to the screwed up drive.
Next, I tried to repair the windows installation but using the recovery disc. But as soon as I hit "r" to repair, I would get the BSOD:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
....
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x8CBDE014,0x00000002,0x00000000,0xF7074416)
I restarted and tried "To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER", but again, after pressing ENTER this time I got a similar BSOD:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
...
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x8CBDE014,0x00000002,0x00000000,0xF7074416)
*** ntfs.sys - Adress F7074416 base at F7073000, DateStamp 41107eea
I don't know what else to do. Is there any way I can save some data on the drive? Mostly all my other data is on an external drive but there are some things that would be nice to get back.
I am already planning to pick up a new drive, but is there anything I can do with this one? Any help would be great! Thanks!
*HP desktop computer w/ Windows XP Home Edition
Problem: A couple days ago, while the computer was being used it would shutoff and restart automatically, without notice. It starting doing it more frequently so I automatically thought virus. But, I couldn't do the 8 steps because the computer would restart in the middle of the tests. Soon, the computer wouldn't even get past the startup screen before restarting. Once in a while it would start up all the way and then restart later. NOW, it won't get past the startup screen...just starts up, restarts, starts up, restarts etc. Not even Safe mode will work.
At that point, all I wanted was to save some documents off the drive and then reformat it. So I plugged the drive into another computer (as a secondard drive), but doing that caused the other computer to act the same way and I could not gain access to the screwed up drive.
Next, I tried to repair the windows installation but using the recovery disc. But as soon as I hit "r" to repair, I would get the BSOD:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
....
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x8CBDE014,0x00000002,0x00000000,0xF7074416)
I restarted and tried "To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER", but again, after pressing ENTER this time I got a similar BSOD:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
...
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x8CBDE014,0x00000002,0x00000000,0xF7074416)
*** ntfs.sys - Adress F7074416 base at F7073000, DateStamp 41107eea
I don't know what else to do. Is there any way I can save some data on the drive? Mostly all my other data is on an external drive but there are some things that would be nice to get back.
I am already planning to pick up a new drive, but is there anything I can do with this one? Any help would be great! Thanks!