win XP BSD at boot up

Discussion in 'Software' started by fjdavid, Feb 1, 2015.

  1. fjdavid

    fjdavid Private E-2

    Dell OptiPlex 330
    Core 2 Duo E4600 processor
    2 gig ram DDR2
    250 Gig SATA Hard Drive
    Win XP Home
    Purchased 2008, new motherboard, memory and CPU in 2011 (under warranty)

    My computer fails during boot up and gives me the BSD. Here is what happened the first time. I got a Windows boot manager is missing or corrupt error
    I woke up the computer to start working. the desktop showed up but anything I clicked on showed the hourglass but never opened. I tried several different programs and nothing was happening. the hard drive light wasn't flashing either so after 5 minutes of waiting I did a hard reboot by holding the on button. the computer stopped at the screen to select safe mode, last known good configuration, normal boot etc. I selected boot normally. It got past the win logo with black background background and then went to the Blue screen saying a problem occurred and stopped. I rebooted several times trying the different boot options including safe mode with no luck.
    the stop code was 0x0000007B
    1. Rebooted and ran diagnostics - passed
    2. Rebooted and ran Memtest from CD - passed
    3. Rebooted and went into setup and reset the Bios to factory defaults - still BSD at startup
    4. I don't remember how I got to a dos window now, but I did get to one and run Chkdsk /f early on and found no bad sectors or errors.
    5. Rebooted with the Win XP installation disk to try and repair windows but it also failed, and went to the BSD when it tried to start up windows from the disk. also tried a Win 7 install disk, same problem BSD
    6. Rebooted and ran Knoppix from CD. It booted up and I could see the hard drives, open picture files, PDF's etc. from the hard drive.

    Any ideas?
    Thanks
     
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

  3. fjdavid

    fjdavid Private E-2

    I inserted the windows xp install disk. it loaded files for about a minute and then it said "start up is Starting Windows" then went to the BSD with the stop code was 0x0000007B.

    I took a look at the windows KB link but that was over my head.

    what should I try next?
     
  4. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

  5. fjdavid

    fjdavid Private E-2

    I did not try to install win7, It was suggested in other posts prior to starting this thread to just tried to get to the system restore with Win XP or Win7. However, neither system repair disk would load for me to even get to the option list to run system restore or install an OS.

    I tried several time to get a different win xp system restore disk that I made in 2011 to load and it finally did load. I clicked on Start up repair and got the message "Start up repair can not repair this computer automatically"

    this was the message under that error message:

    Problem Signature
    ProblemEventName: StartupRepairOffline
    Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
    Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
    Problem Signature 03: Unknown
    Problem Signature 04: -1
    Problem Signature 05: ExternalMedia
    Problem Signature 06: 1
    Problem Signature 07: MissingBootManager
    OS version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Local ID: 1033
     
  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Unfortunately that is not a Windows XP disk with the Recovery Console. It doesn't sound as if you've gotten to the Recovery Console to appear. (Blue Screen and loads lots of things).
    http://support2.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307654&Product=winxp
    requires the MS XP CD.

    There might be a way to repair the MBR of XP through linux but I'm not sure how to do this.
    This looks like it might be the way
    http://robert.penz.name/221/mini-howto-restore-windows-mbrbootloader-with-linux/
    but I'm not clear if this is used in a dual boot with linux and Windows. I hesitate to mention it. Use it as a last resort.

    If you have another computer, this will download an ISO that you burn to get a bootable CD with the Recovery Console
    Code:
    http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/bootdiscs/xp_rec_con.zip
    Perhaps the easiest way, is to borrow someone's XP CD, provided you can find someone who has one, and run the Recovery Console from it.
     

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