I am having a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook and I am
not able to access my hard drive to run CHKDSK, etc. The difference is that I
don't care about preserving data on the HD - I am willing to wipe the HD
clean and reinstall if necessary.
I gathered from this thread that I have three options:
1. As per "Dixonian69", BIOS can be told to ignore the HD. I don't find any
options in Set Up (pressing F2) for configuring BIOS. How can I do this?
2. As per Malke, I can use Knoppix. Trouble is I don't have a PC with two
CD drives. If I don't care about preserving my data, do I still need the
other CD drive?
3. Pop out the hard drive from my laptop and connect it to my desktop PC as
secondary drive - I am hoping that there are no issues with connecting the HD
from my laptop as slave drive to my desktop.

I would appreciate any help or suggestions.

Thanks
Srini


"Dixonian69" wrote:

> Sorry missed #4.
>
> I bypassed a booting issue with a faulty HD once before.
>
> I told BIOS that HD did not exist and not look for during boot up.
> set HD search to None instead of Auto!!
>
> It worked but Good news is Windows stioll saw hard drive and could read it
> and use it!!
>
> Hi Malke
>
> "Richard Wells" wrote:
>
> > tried that just causes that computer to reboot. item 4 of my comments
> > "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9E9D52BB-AD3C-452E-A936-49342799376A@microsoft.com...
> > yeah. the easiest way would be to connect it as slave in another computer.
> >
> > "Richard Wells" wrote:
> >
> > > OK but how do I access this hard drive. I do not seem to be able to get to it. By repair console or second HD on another system.
> > > "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:52BF5EF0-2A7B-48B2-BB24-B2E73ED404D4@microsoft.com...
> > > If you have another working XP computer, copy ntfs.sys from
> > > %root%\windows\system32\drivers to same directory on bad hard drive.
> > >
> > > "Richard Wells" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was having a problem with power cable and my computer shut down.
> > > > When I restarted the computer it just continually rebooted.
> > > > I put XP disk in and tried repair and received the following blue screen.
> > > > I can not even add HD to another working computer, it just reboots it.
> > > > I have data on HD I need, Is there a way of repairing this ntfs.sys error.
> > > > I am running XP pro SP2 with all updates
> > > > Please can you help me.
> > > >
> > > > Blue screen Reads.
> > > >
> > > > "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer."
> > > >
> > > > If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this message appears again, follow these steps:
> > > >
> > > > Disable or uninstall any anti virus , disc defragmentation or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
> > > >
> > > > Technical information..
> > > >
> > > > *** stop: 0x00000024 (0x001902fe, 0xf795f814, 0xf795f510, 0xf70e11fc)
> > > >
> > > > *** ntfs.sys - address f70e11fc base at f70d4000, datestamp 41107eea