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Solve : Dimension E510, XP STOP: 0x00000024 error? |
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Answer» Hope you guys can help me out. I am getting this error: Ok, it booted to the CD drive, then flashed a message to press an F( ) key to start Automated System Recovery. I did not do that, but waited for other selectable options. The boot ended with:Are you sure it's booting to the CD and not the hard drive? The message looks like the HDD. Since you have the OS reinstallation CD which is probably a full XP-only CD, insure that the computer will boot from the CD 1st and not the hard drive 1st. Also: Recovery Disc would be the "as shipped" configuration. If your OS reinstallation CD is a full XP-CD, you can attempt a Repair Install Definitely booting from the CD. When I chose the ASR option I was prompted to insert the ASR disc into the floppy drive and when I left the Windows CD in the drive and hit it paused and REQUESTED the ASR disc again. Quote from: dstryr on October 12, 2009, 08:13:18 PM Definitely booting from the CD. When I chose the ASR option I was prompted to insert the ASR disc into the floppy drive and when I left the Windows CD in the drive and hit <ENTER> it paused and requested the ASR disc again.Now I'm concerned about the original message "Floppy diskette seek failure", could be because there was no FD present. I assume it functions? Don't know why ASR asks for Floppy Disk when I assume all originals were CD's (maybe bad assumption). Do you have another CD labeled Windows XP-Home, not ASR? BTW, here's a reference to the Dimension 510 System Setup http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/dim5150/en/sm/syssetup.htm#wp1100608Back to take another crack at this. After several re-starts with the XP CD in the drive I have been to 2 options. One is to completely reload windows, but my C drive shows extremely low available space for that option. Sorry I can't say what the sector free space was, but it was too low to reload windows as it was. It has been 3 weeks since I made it to that option. I quit that route and went back through the commands and am now at the XP Recovery Console. The last line asks which installation would I like to log on to. It appears to be a one-character only field... any advice? Thanks again.Go to this page http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/repair_windows_xp Follow the INSTRUCTIONS. Good luck!!Boot to the Recovery Console from the CD. You'll be asked to enter the "number" of the Windows installation you wish to repair (usually "1"), then the "Administrator" password, if one was set. If you never assigned a password, just hit "Enter" key. Use the "chkdsk" command to verify the integrity of your file system and AUTOMATICALLY attempt to fix errors found. Use the following syntax: "chkdsk /P /r". If you've followed the instructions, you don't need to enter a drive letter because you should be on the correct volume. Depending upon the size of your partition, these checks could take a long time. Let them run to completion without interruption. The chkdsk utility was not designed to be interrupted - so don't. Doing so might corrupt the file system. See: Recovery Console Commands.Thanks for the help, I'm back up and running and so far so good. My firefox browser has been freezing the entire OS if I open more than one TAB or jump from link to link before the prior one has loaded. It had been doing that before the meltdown, too, so I completely uninstalled it and will use IE for now. Virus scan found nothing, either, so I still wonder what caused this. |
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