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Posted by Dino Panagiotopoulos (Member # 1579) on 04-22-2004, 12:39 PM:

Recently I had to re-install windows XP on my laptop to fix a few bugs and everything was working fine again. Then I decided to run Windows Update and re-install all of the hotfixes and updates. Everything installs and when I restart my computer, I get the blue screen and error volations were: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0x03020100, 0xBA2FD4F8, 0x00000000). Im running it right now in safe mode and even after a system restore, it still wont work. I know theres a few computer whizzes here so Im wondering what I can do without having to take it to some guy that will charge me $100 to tell me that I have to reformat. Any help would be appreciated.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-22-2004, 05:26 PM:

Assuming there's no data on there which you can't afford to lose, I'd be inclined to simply reformat the hard drive and start again.

I don't know how big the hard drive on your laptop is, but if the capacity will bear it one solution might be as follows. When installing XP, partition the drive into two volumes. Obviously, install XP on the one called C:. When you've configured XP as you like it, installed your applications and so on, but before installing the patches which buggered things up last time, use an imaging utility such as Norton Ghost or Powerquest Drive Image to copy an image of the system volume onto your HDD's second volume. After that, apply the suspect patches. If they make the system unstable a second time, you can always restore the image, thereby removing all traces of the problem. Once you've got an installation that you're happy with, you can burn an image of it onto a set of CDs or DVDs which you can then restore if you ever need to.

My laptop has one 30gb HDD which I've partitioned into C: (10gb) and D: (20gb). The system resides on C:, with 'My Documents' and all other applications data on D:. C: has been imaged. If I install any software which sends the system unstable, or if I suspect a virus infection or whatever, I can restore the system image to C: from two DVD-ROMs without touching D:. So when all is restored, the applications files should be untouched (though obviously, in the aftermath of any suspected virus infection, job no. 1 would be to scan them).