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The horrors of a year ago came back when today I noticed that I can't boot windows. The first time I tried booting the load screen was extremely long and came to a blue error screen with something such as a "session 3 init failure" note.

I turned it off and tried to boot in safe mode. The boot failed at the screen where all the components start loading up for windows.

I booted with last known settings and came to the error PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA after an extremely long load screen.

I start up with the BIOS and I noticed an odd message also. it says "IDE Channel 0 no 80 conductor cable installed". I have not opened up the system yet up I am sure that all cables are installed as all my drives and lights work.

I have no HDD backup and would like to avoid going to the shop as much as possible to image my drive.  I have the original XP disk for the system. I would like to pop it in to chose the repair function but I have no clue what it would do.


Please Give any input. :-/

Thanks

Well got this one as I tried to boot up again.

"A driver has overrun a stack-based buffer. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this machine.

I have opened her up and removed one of my two disk drives. The one I removed have been giving me problems since the old system where I reused it. It boots into the normal Windows XP now so I am guessing that the disk drive is the one causing all the problems.

uh huh

I was just going to say.. dead drive

but nothing warms my heart more than to see someone figure these things out on their own..    :)

the blue screen.... it's...... beautiful

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uh huh

I was just going to say.. dead drive

but nothing warms my heart more than to see someone figure these things out on their own..

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uh huh

I was just going to say.. dead drive

but nothing warms my heart more than to see someone figure these things out on their own..

Learn something new everyday.

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nothing warms my heart more than to see someone figure these things out on their own..