Dave P

Oh dear. I upgraded to XP on Tuesday and now my system has totally broken. I am no techy so I am totally screwed.

I have been refered to www.technet.com and look at Q297185 which details exactly my problem. But what do I do? It talks about going into the windows set up screen, but the XP floppy doesn't seem to work.

I have an old Windows 98 Floppy start up disk, but when I use that and look at C:dir it gives me a very shortened version of what I have on my C Drive.

Any clues tips or hints greatfully received.

Dave

Jeff Wiltshire

Dave

Does the the stop code match the Damaged File system (0xC0000032) or is it a UDMA error ?


Jeff

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Dave I couldnt get onto technet, but try booting from the XP CD, and re-running setup, then following the instructions from technet, ie option R in the welcome setup screen.

If u cant boot from the CD, boot from your XP or 98se floppy with CDRom support, and then re-run setup from the XP CD.

If the repair option doesnt work u probably need to install the UDMA drivers for your HardDisc when you do setup.

shunty

Dave P - just to add to what the other guys have said:

if the repair doesn't work you can do an install over the top. This installs into "c:\windows" & leaves "c:\winnt" as a seperate install,this is good & bad depends on your view.
It leaves all your programs, files etc in tact

fyi - The roll back facility works great (if you can boot into a successful version of XP of course), it puts you back to your previous OS level in tact.

shunty

Dave P

the stop code doesn't match the damaged file code, so I guess it's a UDMA error. But I haven't a clue what that is....

I don't have an XP start up disk, but I do have Windows 98 startup disk, so is it ok to get into the Windows XP CD rom from there?

Jeff Wiltshire

Dave

You'll need to go into your BIOS on startup and check that your Hard Disk drives are not UDMA enabled.


Jeff

shunty

Xp boot disk on www.bootdisk.com

shunty

Dave P

Cheers Jeff, what is UDMA enabled, is it important??

shunty

out of interest have you tried F8 & last known good yet Dave ?
but try the udma in the bios first though.

shunty

Jeff Wiltshire

The thing to do to get it working is to go back to factory defaults in the BIOS and see if that cures it.


Jeff

Shunty....go right ahead, I was visiting a client

bioforger

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if hes using a udma disc though, wouldnt it be better to find the controller drivers (promise?) On some mobos esp in win2k u have to tell the setup program to use your drivers from a floppy. I know XP has better driver support, but maybe his type of controller isnt supported?

Jeff Wiltshire

The technet article specifically talks about either...

a. a drive setting set to UDMA when it shouldn't be
b. using a 40 wire cable instead of 80
c. a corrupt file system.

It says that this has been done by design so I don't think that just adding some drivers will alter the result.


Jeff

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Agreed, but I think the corruption has arisen because XP did not recognise his HDD controller properly. Ive seen this happen before. I could be wrong of course.

Jeff Wiltshire

You could be......

shunty

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Jeff Wiltshire

Jeff

Dave P

All,

Just to say thanks for all the advice. I tried the startup disks and a host of other things but in the end I had to give up and rebuild. Only bummer is we lost the Quiz Night questions for the next PTA quiz night.

Thx Again

Dave

shunty

Dave - UDMA gives higher data throughput, it is not required just better obviously.
You will have a wider cable with a different coloured piece that goes into the motherboard, depending on your hard-disk is UDMA 66 or 100 determines the max data flow speed.
If you disable the udma setting in the bios the disk will still talk to the motherboard just on normal dma speed.
sorry Jeff not meaning to jump in here, I take it your on lunch

forgot to add you can use the udma cable (80 connections instead of 40) just as dma...thats ok
shunty

[Edited by shunty - 3/6/2002 1:05:00 PM]