Man, I hate BSOD (Blue Screen of Death - for those who don't know. Keep with the times!).
One day you're happy, sitting at your PC, maybe burning a few songs to CD or whatever, and next minute BAM!!! Your computer tells you it's been shut down for whatever reason. One course of action is to stare in disbelief for 60 seconds as you wonder how this world can be so cruel. Another is to kick that stupid piece of crap that you WOULD get rid of, except it probably holds your entire life on the hard drive.
The only good thing about BSOD is that it gives you an error code. A bit of an improvement from the old WIN 9x days!
In this case, it's 0x00000024. A family in my church experienced this problem. XP wouldn't even get to the logon screen. In fact, it didn't even show me the BSOD until I pressed F8 on startup and selected an option to not shut down immediately on error.
It's got something to do with ntfs.sys and how it becomes corrupted I do not know. This is why I love M$. Not.
To fix:
1) Insert XP CD and boot from it
2) Press F8 to agree to terms and press R for recovery console
3) Press 1 and hit return to log into C:\Windows
4) Press return when it asks for an admin p/w (default - leave blank)
5) Type "CHKDSK /p /r" and hit return (no quotes)
6) Wait....keep waiting.....wait even longer.....In fact, return after 2 hours.
It'll tell you that its found errors, and has fixed them.
Maybe this little scare will finally get you to back up your data!! Maybe not.
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