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xp gave blue screen then was no longer installed

Started by msc , Apr 01 2008 07:14 PM

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msc

Posted 01 April 2008 - 07:14 PM

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So I did a fresh install on a Dell Inspiron laptop. It ran great for about a week then suddenly gave me a blue screen of death for unknown_boot_file I believe. So anyway when I tried to repair from the xp pro repair cd the operating system was GONE! Any ideas? I think its a hard drive but not sure any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Ztruker

Posted 02 April 2008 - 06:32 PM

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See this post by Happyrck for how to create a live Puppy Linux CD.

Boot the CD then try to access your hard drive. Post results here.

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msc

Posted 02 April 2008 - 08:28 PM

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I was able to get into the hard drive but I ended up running a hd analyzer and found 371 bad physical sectors so just bought a new hard drive and it works great now!