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IMCjhill, There were a few errors that popped up during the repair reinstall that had to do with some of the .dll files, such as wab32.dll, et al. I tried copying them from a working machine using BartPE (WFP won't otherwise let you overwrite) but it made no difference, but in the end, the...

Turkbear - as I stated, the current hard drive is a new one. Roger - yes, I did try booting it before running chkdsk /r on the new drive - same results. The hardware seems to be running ok - just for grins, I did a parallel install and it boots to the desktop and functions normally. I also went...

The only way that HijackThis will run on this machine is if you run it from within BartPE, using the plugin. It will then scan the remote registry instead of the local one. I've used HijackThis extensively to aid in the removal of infections from a great many machines. The other tools I usually...

The owner is computer illiterate, so no tweaking has likely been done. It is true that the XP repair reinstall is imperfect - no way that it could repair all faults - so clobbered registry settings could get carried over. However, before doing the repair reinstall, I had booted into BartPE and...

A drive that has xp installed will only boot in another system if that system is a clone of the first. It might also boot if the new system is using the same disk controller, but you are still likely to get blue screens due to further driver vs hardware discrepancies. Sounds like you already...

Same results in safe mode. I was able to get into Control Panel and create a new user, and the new profile exhibits the same issues.

Customer brought in a XP Home SP2 system that is doing some rather strange things. For starters, the Start button is missing. The system does respond to the Windows key by presenting the start menu, but the only thing showing in the left column is All Programs, and the only thing showing in the...

In my particular case, it would get the same blue screen when booting in safe mode, so the only way I could remove sp2 was from recovery console, but this was hit or miss - sometimes the system would boot to the desktop afterwards, sometimes it wouldn't. When I get some spare time, I plan on...

I did a setup like this at an auto dealership where they wanted to go over the existing corporate net via T1 to get to internal servers and go over a new DSL link to get to the general internet. To make things simple, both routers must be on the same local subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2)...

linney - I dialed the 888-sp2-help (888-772-4357) number listed and got "the number you have dialed cannot be reached from your calling area" so I dialed the main support # and got through... To make a long story short, Microsoft tech support worked with me long and hard, and after numerous...

Thanks to all who responded. dglienna - I tried a fresh install, downloaded all online updates, installed sp2 and got the same result. linney - that's an idea, but not sure how it is functionally different than applying sp2 separately. I usually use slipstreaming for repair reinstalls to...

A customer was upgrading their xp pro sp1 workstations to sp2 using sp2 on a cd borrowed from our shop. All went well until the last workstation. After installing sp2 on this machine, it blue screened with stop c0000221, unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll. Same thing happens when...

Ok, problem solved with respect to leaving a domain controlled by the old server and rejoining the domain controlled by the new server (same domain name and server name). The missing pieces are here... http://www.mrp3.com/windows-user-setting-fix-procedure.html While it does appear that in...

Turns out that the 'non-system disk' error was due to a bad floppy drive on the customer's machine. After making sure that it worked on a working xp pro machine, I swapped out the customer's floppy drive, booted from the floppy and got a stop 21a. Ergo, the problem has nothing to do with the...

I used the term "prior convictions" loosely, to mean a "bit of history", not in its strictly legal sense." Yes, but it makes a big difference in my customer's case whether Intuit is writing to the boot sector or not. If it had GoBack or such installed, there could be repercussions to writing...

Turbotax has prior convictions for messing with the boot sector" Not true, in spite of all the allegations. They were convicted of writing to sector 33 which is not used by the os or boot loader. Most of the posts on this issue date to 2003. Here is the skinny on what they were/are doing...

Booting from a floppy or CD doesn't prove much - I am already doing that with BartPE. autochk is on the same drive & partition that contains the mbr, ntldr, and %systemroot% and registry. It is more likely to be a permissions problem than a path problem, since the boot process is started, but...

No, same stop code in safe mode. 'Last good known' fails the same way. GoBack is not installed. No hidden partitions, according to PartitionMagic and others. I've already done the google searches and ruled out everything I've found...

A customer brought his xp home sp2 machine into the shop after it got into a reboot loop. I edited the registry using BartPE & regedit PE to disable the auto restart on crash and can now see that the stop code is a c000021a. The bootup sequence of events is that shortly after the xp banner &...

Roadkill - I tried it here in the shop before trying it at the customer location, but it didn't work. Here is what I did. - fresh install of xp pro, non-domain (workgroup) - created local admin user account named test - logged onto local machine as test, which created \D&S\test, changed...