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Ace
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
Just booted my fathers' PC today and it fails, saying that NTFS.sys is corrupted. OK, so I try safe mode, last known good etc, all no good. So I stick in a WinXP CD ready to copy the file over in the recovery console. It can't load the CD - it keeps complaining about ntfs.sys being corrupted, setupdd.sys and something else I can't remember.sys being corrupted. Sometimes it just gives error code 7. I always thought that Win setup would load no matter what your system setup was and that it ran irrespective of that. Anyway, any ideas anyone? Could I slap it in my PC as a slave any copy the file over that way? I *really* don't think he's appreciate a reinstall of his work PC... <BR><BR>edit/ Oh yeah, any idea why this happened?
MikEy
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
i have that exact same prob for the comp i'm building for a friend. i really dont know how to fix it. maybe a full reformat mgiht work.
Ace
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
That's what I figured... I'm just about to try and swap the HDD into another PC and see if I can replace any of the corrupted files. I assume all the .sys files are the same for any installation of WinXP.
MikEy
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
ya, i was thinking about doing taht, but i havent the time yet. tell me if it works. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Zefram
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
Just make sure they are on the same service packs. some file like ntoskrnl.exe and some other file is different on the service packs. say of you transfer ntoskrnl.exe from Win XP without SP1 to a PC with WIN XP SP1, it won't work
Dude
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
Sounds like bad ram, may want ot run <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://hcidesign.com/memtest/">Memtest</a>
Ace
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
Dude hit the nail on the head, it was the RAM. However, I think it was caused by a dodgy PSU which also burnt out a HDD, so beware... lol. <BR><BR>Thanks for the info Zefram... maybe that's why that didn't help much <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Dude
06-15-04, 01:27 PM
That's too bad about the lost hardware, at least you got it sorted out. Thanks for posting back your results. I just don't understand why some people leave you hanging. I see it on many of the forums I go to. They never post back one way of the other, fixed, not fixed. Nobody learns anything that way. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">