From: rock on
On 7/02/2010 4:22 AM, dadiOH wrote:
> rock wrote:
>> Thanks but this did not work on my XP box.
>
> Try pressing the Break key. Usd to be that would "halt"...OTOH, it *is* a
> Microsoft error mesage so maybe not.
>
> dadiOH
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>>
>> On 6/02/2010 11:18 AM, SC Tom wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "rock"<1940(a)pobox.com> wrote in message
>>> news:#bLvKtrpKHA.5760(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have XP pro and it has started to keep on rebooting at start up
>>>> with a flash of a blue screen message which I can't read as it is
>>>> so fast. It boots up with the Windows logo screen and the blue lines
>>>> showing
>>>> it working for a few seconds but then it goes black and then the
>>>> blue screen flashes and it then reboots to the same thing again.
>>>>
>>>> How can I read that blue screen and how can I see what it wrong and
>>>> fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> oz
>>>>
>>>
>>> Press F8 during boot up until the boot options menu comes up. Scroll
>>> down to "Disable automatic restart on system failure" and press
>>> enter. That will stop it at the BSOD if it comes up again.
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>

Ah ha.. It seems I have 7 Bad blocks and they all showed near the
beginning of the Seagate Tools programs which I just used as it reads WD
disks as well.

So it makes sense these blocks are effecting the XP files.

What is the work around here?

oz
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