[Windows SIG] Winter Must B Coming - WinXP Freezing Sooner & Sooner

[Lita Letourneau]

Hey DJ,

Have you tried knoppix to see if you can see the partitions with 
it...sometimes when all else fails....good old Knoppix will allow me to 
save data to another drive (maybe an external h/d).

Just a thought....otherwise, install the "failing" drive into another 
system as slave and boot another windows system (if you have one) to 
allow for removal of needed data....this is what I resort to for my 
clients/friends who have to have the data and can't get it any other way.

Let me know if you want to pursue this as I have eight systems at home 
that I could try it with.

Sincerely,

Lita Letourneau



DJ Brown wrote:
> Hello All: 
>
> Here I go with another plea for help... and thanks to all who reply or get
> a kick out of it. 
>
> My best machine (one of six) is on the fritz. (See data below) First one of
> the boot options would arbitrarily freeze in the middle of of a session.
> Then, when I got used to relying on the other boot option, it started
> freezing too. 
>
> It got worse. Anytime I tried to copy or move data, it froze. Then, as I
> tried to get the data off the dying partitons, it started freezing in SAFE
> mode and SAFE W/ Command Line. Now, one boot option will freeze after the
> GiveIO.sys driver is loaded. The other worked for a time and now does the
> same. I even tried to run the Recovery CD on it and the CD failed to boot! 
>
> Trouble is there's an Ubuntu Linux boot option on it that runs like
> gangbusters! Unfortunately, I'm not able to get any shared service under
> SMB to show me a directory. I can see all the shares but no directories.
> There is one share from another computer and three additional partitions
> that *should* show correctly. So far, the indications tell me it's a Linux
> setting and not evidence the partitions are bad. Besides, the external
> share is up and running WinXP so I can send email. 
>
> Oh yeah, the data: 
>
> MB:    AOpen NKV 400... 
> BIOS:  Phoenix/Award V6.0; 2004-11-22 
> Proc:  AMD Athlon 1900+ 1.4 GHz
> RAM:   3.14 Gb
> Video: nVidia; GEForce FX 5200 Ultra; 128 Mb 
> HD1:   60 Gb
>     Boot-1:   WinXP SP-2, etc. 
>     Boot-2:   Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Gutzy 
> HD-2:  160 MHz 
>     Boot-3:   WinXP, SP-2, etc. 
>     Data13:   ~40 Gb 
>     Backup12: ~40 Gb 
>     Backup14: ~40 Gb
>
> I'm supposed to be the tech here. It's embarrassing. 
>
>
> DJ Brown
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