Re: Windows XP keeps restarting, never loads

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨

    Re: Windows XP keeps restarting, never loads

    When you boot the XP CD what exactly happens? When does this 024 error appear?

    You might consider trying to boot a KNOPPIX Live CD just to see if that would boot:

    http://www.knoppix.org/

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    GalrieXII is offline Newbie
    OK when I boot it goes through the motions of setting up and loading all the stuff it needs to. Then I load my Drivers for my SATA controller and it then sees my to HDDs. After that I can choose either Repair Council or Install. Either way when it examines the disk it gives me the BSOD with the error 024.

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Do you have an IDE drive that you could try to install on?

    This would test your SATA controller question.

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    GalrieXII is offline Newbie
    Yeah I slammed in an IDE HDD already and it wouldn't even finish post. I was like "SOB" oh well I am DLing the Linux software you recommended and I guess I will try to get that IDE HDD to boot again.

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    GalrieXII is offline Newbie
    So Yeah I just accidently formatted both my HDDs with my BIOS RAID utility and then I am suddenly able to install windows... GO fig. I wonder if I DLed a virus or something >.>; I hope not but here is hopping it works now for good.!

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Glad you got it going.

    I just tried yesterday to reload XP onto a SATA drive that was previously in a RAID array and after the XP CD took an hour to format it told me that it could not because the disk was damaged. I then formated it with GParted and reloaded XP without a problem.

    Could be something in the RAID!

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