[Pedigree]

the disc that came with my computer installs windows XP sp2, my computer decided to go a bit dodgy about 2 weeks ago and i haven't came round to sorting it out until now.

it was very unstable, crashed a lot and was very slow(i know the description is all the same but you know ). a friend said just re-install windows...I agreed, as i was re-installing it came to formatting, so i tried to format and then it says it was unsuccessful (i used the normal format not the quick, after the first fail i tried again using the quick format), i followed the instructions from the error message, still the same story.

read a guide on the web how to do it, now it gets to the partition menu, when i do anything from there it comes to a blue error screen saying the following: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

problem caused by file: setupdd.sys

try the following steps: blah blah blah

technical information: STOP 0x00000050 (0xE10DC008, 0x00000000, 0xF84BD9EF, 0x00000001)

setupdd.sys - address F849C000, datestamp 41107C8F


now i don't know what to do so any help is much appreciated.

 

[Old Rich]

First thing I would do is run diagnostics on the Hard Drive, to rule out drive failure

Depending on the Brand:

Samsung http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_HUTIL.html
Seagate/Maxtor/Quantum http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
fujitsu/Seimens http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

If the drive check ok, run diagnostics on the Memory . . click on the Memtest link in my signature for that.

 

[cheescake]

Try the usual chkdsk /F through the Windows XP recovery console.

This sounds like a HDD problem before anything else. You say this happen out of nowhere (have you changed anything recently?).

 

[Pedigree]

i haven't changed anything recently just tried to do different things.

 

[Pedigree]

when i ran chkdsk it said: this volume appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems

so...erm, its broke? if it is unfixable it don't matter building a new comp soon

 

[Old Rich]

It may well have failed . . the diagnostics will confirm

 

[Pedigree]

i cant log into windows so how could i run the diagnostics

 

[Old Rich]

look at the links . . you create a bootable cd or Floppy that does not need windows

 

[Pedigree]

oh right

 

[Pedigree]

wont let me boot from cd

 

[ThorXP]

Go into the BIOS and set the boot order to CD-ROM first.

 

[Pedigree]

thor, i have done

well i tried installation a few more times and it got past formatting, stopped then i tried again now its installing windows properly