Okay it would make sense if I post my setup first, and detail my drice configuration as best I can.
Q6600 in a Gigabyte G31 board, 8400GS card running the graphics. This is probably useless but just in case.
As for the drives:
Just a note for how my boot process seems to work:
Boots from C:, makes it boot into the D:.
If I try booting from D:, it tells me that there isn't a disc to boot from, if there is a bootable disc in the disc drive, it boots from there.
So here's what happened...
I launched the H.A.W.X. demo which I just got from Steam, and the screen goes black. I had an WLM window open in the background, and I notice that a COMODO pop up is in the background. It was a yellow one, that's all I was able to catch a glimpse of. I waited for a minute or few, tried alt+tabbing, and ctr+alt+deleting. None of these managed to switch out of the supposed game screen (which was all black).
Anyways, I decided to reluctantly force a restart. And once I started up the machine again, I got a wonderous BSOD that displayed four STOP codes, as follows.
I booted into a Live CD of xubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon, I think. A bit old), and I was planning on accessing the files and moving them over to a safe partition, so that I could just reformat my XP partition (which was D: )... And then!...
My friend was using google and told me to do some vague stuff that turned out useless (going into CMD and using chkdsk /F, wasn't even able to access cmd because Windows would BSOD right at the XP loading screen).
So I went back into xubuntu, and try to access my XP partition. No go! Here's what it says.
I tried to type this in a way that would make sense because there was no paragraphing and structure in the error message.
It also says (in another error pop up)
I believe there's something wrong with my ntfs.sys file.
So it says NTFS is marked as in use. How do I make it become marked as not in use? I tried unplugging the power and data cables from the SATA drive. Didn't do anything.
So here's what I'm hoping for in terms of solutions:
- Backup files in the bad partition
- Somehow replace corrupt system files
- Get that partition vaguely accessible
Those three objectives are probably all linked.
I'm also able to backup files in the 60GB hard drive to possibly install an operating system on there. Alternatively I have an ancient 10GB IDE drive from the Windows95 days that is blank, so I could install an operating system on there if I wished. Just mentioning anything I can for you guys to help me with. Thanks for reading.
Edit: Is this... something to be looking at?
Q6600 in a Gigabyte G31 board, 8400GS card running the graphics. This is probably useless but just in case.
As for the drives:
- CD/DVD drive that handles several things, IDE, master.
- 60GB IDE, slave, Maxtor drive, for some reason split into C:58GB (Containing files from my old XP install, and Windows 7) and E: 2GB(For Recovery, that doesn't even work).
- 500GB SATA Maxtor drive split into two 250GB partitions, (XP installation D: ) and (Backup/Storage F: )
Just a note for how my boot process seems to work:
Boots from C:, makes it boot into the D:.
If I try booting from D:, it tells me that there isn't a disc to boot from, if there is a bootable disc in the disc drive, it boots from there.
So here's what happened...
I launched the H.A.W.X. demo which I just got from Steam, and the screen goes black. I had an WLM window open in the background, and I notice that a COMODO pop up is in the background. It was a yellow one, that's all I was able to catch a glimpse of. I waited for a minute or few, tried alt+tabbing, and ctr+alt+deleting. None of these managed to switch out of the supposed game screen (which was all black).
Anyways, I decided to reluctantly force a restart. And once I started up the machine again, I got a wonderous BSOD that displayed four STOP codes, as follows.
I booted into a Live CD of xubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon, I think. A bit old), and I was planning on accessing the files and moving them over to a safe partition, so that I could just reformat my XP partition (which was D: )... And then!...
My friend was using google and told me to do some vague stuff that turned out useless (going into CMD and using chkdsk /F, wasn't even able to access cmd because Windows would BSOD right at the XP loading screen).
So I went back into xubuntu, and try to access my XP partition. No go! Here's what it says.
Code:
Cannot Mount Volume - Unable to mount the volume
$Logfile indicates unclean shutdown (0. 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.
Choose on action:
Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.
Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the force option for your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media disk -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file
/dev/sda1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults.force 0. 0It also says (in another error pop up)
Code:
Unable to mount "248G Volume":
Failed to determine the mount point for /dev/sda1I believe there's something wrong with my ntfs.sys file.
So it says NTFS is marked as in use. How do I make it become marked as not in use? I tried unplugging the power and data cables from the SATA drive. Didn't do anything.
So here's what I'm hoping for in terms of solutions:
- Backup files in the bad partition
- Somehow replace corrupt system files
- Get that partition vaguely accessible
Those three objectives are probably all linked.
I'm also able to backup files in the 60GB hard drive to possibly install an operating system on there. Alternatively I have an ancient 10GB IDE drive from the Windows95 days that is blank, so I could install an operating system on there if I wished. Just mentioning anything I can for you guys to help me with. Thanks for reading.
Edit: Is this... something to be looking at?
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