power loss during partition magic resize = blue screen

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gu014

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Hello,
Recently i was attempting to resize my HD using partition magic(i did not backup prior ). During the process my computer lost power. Upon rebooting i receive the following blue screen error message:


a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to our computer

if this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. if this screen appears again, follow these steps:
disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentatio or backu utils. check your HD config, and check for any updated drivers run CHKDSK /F to check for HD corruption, and then restart your computer.

technical info:
*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x8a368268, 0xc0000102, 0x00000000)

After receiving the error msg i restarted and received the same error. I have valuable informaton on the HD that i can not do without. Knowing that, i still tried to reboot with the dell recovery cd and i again receive the following blue screen:

*** STOP: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf748e08f, 0xf78da208, 0xf78d9f08)

*** pci.sys - address f748e0bf base at f7487000, datestamp 3c0bfadb


I was reading that the pci.sys error has something to do with service pack 2. If i spstream the SP2 into the recovery cd i could possibly get around such a msg. However, i would rather avoid such a procedure as i do not think it would provide a solution.

I have tried to boot with the "last known good configuraton," debug mode, all with the same results.

I performed all possible HD tests within the system settings and the included dell utilities, receiving a "pass" from each.

I removed the HD and booted the PC with only the windows cd from the ide cd/dvd drive, all yielding the same results.



Here are my comp specs:
Dell dimension 9100.
3.0 ghz
2gb ram
250gb MAXTOR 7L250S0 PORT SATA-0
WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION

anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
So you completely removed the hdd and only booted from the windows cd...but still got the same error? If that's the case, the only thing I can suggest is to try resetting everything in your bios to default...and possibly try reseating the ram.
 
nick5449 said:
So you completely removed the hdd and only booted from the windows cd...but still got the same error? If that's the case, the only thing I can suggest is to try resetting everything in your bios to default...and possibly try reseating the ram.
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what purpose is reseating the ram going to do? his problem is that he was partitioning a drive when the power went out. do you know what it was doing? was it resizing the windows partition? if it was you probably lost some windows configuration files. i have no idea how to fix it but there probably is some way to rebuild the windows files. any one know if, how to do it?
 
way2evil said:
what purpose is reseating the ram going to do? ?
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If I'm understanding this right, he removed the hdd but was still getting the error? I had similar error before and the ram had come a little loose and reseating it helped. Or maybe Im just losing it and dont know what I'm talking about haha.
 
removing the hard drive wont help. the problem is it moved some of the core files, then the power blacked out. do you have another computer? if so put your drive in it and see if you can access the files from it. you will have to reinstall windows unless someone else knows how to rebuild the windows files
 
Solution:
Put in a new HD...installed Xp clean. Put the damaged HD as a slave. i was able to access the damaged HD from windows. then ran a chkdsk on the damaged HD...then i changed the comp back to factory defaults...booted up as normal. worked.

only think i had to changed was the raid settings in my bios so that windows would see the damaged HD as a slave.
 
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