bsod every time I boot up

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 11:35

I'm on xp professional, sp3.

Whenever I click to log in, I get a BSOD, and the error code is something about ntfs.sys.

Last time I was able to use it, I had very little space on my C drive. I think that is what's causing it. How can I somehow remove some stuff from the harddrive without actually logging into my pc? To be honest, taking the hard drive out and putting in another system is dead end, I don't have another system available to me.

Thanks

EDIT: got into safe mode and deleted a whole load of stuff, still get the bsod

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 12:03

The ntfs.sys file is causing the problem:

page_fault_in_nonpaged_area

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 13:28

just run a chkdisk through safe mode, will report how it goes

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 15:02

well chkdisk didn't solve the problem.

theheyes said:
You could perhaps try a repair install, but if there is anything on there you want make a backup of it first.

Will I need the cd for that? I've got a whole load of stuff that I need to keep, but I don't have a storage medium

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 15:48

yeah, avg would have been running

TheCenturion · 19 Jun 2010 at 16:45

now that you mention it, I went onto a website earlier and an avg message came up

TheCenturion · 20 Jun 2010 at 15:13

THere's seven files in Windows\minidump

TheCenturion · 22 Jun 2010 at 15:20

IAmATeaf said:
page fault to me would indicate possible problems with your RAM, get a copy of Memtest86+ and run that to see what it reports.

I can't get memtest, in safe mode it won't accept a usb drive, so I've got no way of getting memtest on my system

Pho- Thanks for your help, I'll be able to email it on Friday

TheCenturion · 26 Jun 2010 at 21:43

I could try to do that, but I'm not even sure I have any floppys lying about at the moment :\

TheCenturion · 26 Jun 2010 at 21:52

I've got the minidump files if anyone wants them

TheCenturion · 27 Jun 2010 at 11:26

deleted avg, ran another chkdsk, but to no avail. I'll try to get memtest on there asap

TheCenturion · 27 Jun 2010 at 17:39

Safe mode won't even work now

I'm at the end of my tether I need some files off there. Would a repair install delete my personal files?

TheCenturion · 27 Jun 2010 at 21:41

Ok thanks guys.
Memtest came up fine, no errors. I did have an Ubuntu cd lying around somewhere, I'll try to dig it up. Will repair install work, even though I can't even boot up safe mode?

TheCenturion · 3 Jul 2010 at 20:42

Well, I've somehow fixed the problem. For such a big problem, the issue was very simple. I managed to get into safe mode again, and all I did was a system restore, to a date before the crashes. Voila! The pc works again!

Thanks for all your help everyone