Hi,
OK. For whatever (probably dumb) reason, I was defragging my tower from a remote desktop connection when the power went out of the house.
Upon restart, I got to the XP main screen and it looped. safe mode hangs at mup.sys (which I understand is not poor mup's fault but whatever comes after it)
the MS Recovery Console has this to say:
problem is, the motor burned out on my CD drive, and I am not in a position to replace/fix it. So...no discs.
Is there ANY way to get to my documents?
I have an external hard drive waiting to store all my data - years worth of stuff that I foolishly never backed up. I had actually just bought the EHD and was defragging to start that process!
Any help would be much appreciated, I've been looking things up for 2 days now. It's XP SP2 Media Edition, if that helps/matters.
Dan
OK. For whatever (probably dumb) reason, I was defragging my tower from a remote desktop connection when the power went out of the house.
Upon restart, I got to the XP main screen and it looped. safe mode hangs at mup.sys (which I understand is not poor mup's fault but whatever comes after it)
the MS Recovery Console has this to say:
later:A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
Every thing I've read suggests put SOMETHING in the CD drive, whether a repair/install disc, some miracle freeware disc, etc.Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x84B339E0, 0xC0000006, 0x000000000, 0x000000000)
problem is, the motor burned out on my CD drive, and I am not in a position to replace/fix it. So...no discs.
Is there ANY way to get to my documents?
I have an external hard drive waiting to store all my data - years worth of stuff that I foolishly never backed up. I had actually just bought the EHD and was defragging to start that process!
Any help would be much appreciated, I've been looking things up for 2 days now. It's XP SP2 Media Edition, if that helps/matters.
Dan