=D thanks!
-Zack
-Zack
Computer Restarts Itself When Booting Up
Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2
I come back from school to find my computer monitor looking as it should, except with an error message. The message was over the password prompt (which I use), and nothing (mouse and keyboard) responded. Like an idiot, I didn't write down what the problem was. I just rebooted. I got as far as the BootScreen (windows logo, green/blue loading bar), then the screen blanked, flashed a few times (LCD), and started the boot process again, as if I'd hit the restart button.
This happened twice more, and on the second time, at the BootScreen, it just blanked. The power was on, but I had a blank screen. I gave it about 2 minutes before I restarted.
When booting in safe mode, it gets as far as the Drivers loading screen. After it decides to load SPTD.sys it restarts...
Currently, I have put in the windows XP CD and am about to try to "repair" my windows.
Losing all the data on this hard drive would equate to a few thousand dollars, so that's ... not what I'm hoping for. If in the end I have to reformat, no problem, as long as I can get all my data. (Hopefully!)
Thanks,
-Zack
I come back from school to find my computer monitor looking as it should, except with an error message. The message was over the password prompt (which I use), and nothing (mouse and keyboard) responded. Like an idiot, I didn't write down what the problem was. I just rebooted. I got as far as the BootScreen (windows logo, green/blue loading bar), then the screen blanked, flashed a few times (LCD), and started the boot process again, as if I'd hit the restart button.
This happened twice more, and on the second time, at the BootScreen, it just blanked. The power was on, but I had a blank screen. I gave it about 2 minutes before I restarted.
When booting in safe mode, it gets as far as the Drivers loading screen. After it decides to load SPTD.sys it restarts...
Currently, I have put in the windows XP CD and am about to try to "repair" my windows.
Losing all the data on this hard drive would equate to a few thousand dollars, so that's ... not what I'm hoping for. If in the end I have to reformat, no problem, as long as I can get all my data. (Hopefully!)
Thanks,
-Zack
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I've been having good luck with this method... Until now. I have one large folder left to copy over, 12.5gb. I'm using the 40gb hard drive, which, on two other computers, i have confirmed has a little over 27gb of free space left. Yet, when I plug it into the computer running Knoppix, it says it's full, having about 87mb left, and it fails to copy anything over.
Any ideas?
Thanks
-Zack
Any ideas?
Thanks
-Zack
Fat32
if I reformat to NTFS, will it still be compatible with both computers?
if I reformat to NTFS, will it still be compatible with both computers?
It's a single folder of many, many subfiles and folders. A folder in Program Files. Overall, it is 12.7GB, and nothing in is over 4gb, or anywhere near. The problem seems to be that Knoppix thinks the disk is full, when it is actually not. I have cleared the whole disk out, and checked the capacity on two other computers.
I am stumped.
-Zack
I am stumped.
-Zack
I was wondering what that was, but it was, and still is, only 1.4MB... =(
Also, it only shows up on the Linux, it does not show up on the Windows (even with hidden files on)
-Zack (sorry for the long wait time to my response)
Also, it only shows up on the Linux, it does not show up on the Windows (even with hidden files on)
-Zack (sorry for the long wait time to my response)
OK.. thanks, then.
-Zack
-Zack
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