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Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
I'm trying to format this hard drive, and I'm running into a lot of issues. Here is the error I get:
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 screen appears again, follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. Technical information: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) I have tried running CHKDSK, and also tried running SpinRite (which took 3 days). I have run antivirus software (AVG) and there are no controller cards or additional hard drives. Anyone know what I can do? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
If it is an isolated error, and all your scans turn up nothing, then you can stop worrying about it.
How ya doing, buddy? |
There's no operating system on the hard drive anymore, I get that error while I'm trying to install Windows... also, running Ubuntu Live just locks up every time.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
And you say Spinrite says the drive is clean?
In any case, I would be very suspicious of a drive that croaks during a Windows setup, so I'd recommend you use a different one instead. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I was speaking idiomatically. |
if you can, place the hard drive in a working windows computer and run HD tune on it just to make sure. If it finds any errors then you should replace the drive
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
As an addition, try reformatting the drive and see if that does anything to help, with a different install DVD as an additional measure. It might've just been a bad format. I was running into a similar issue trying to reinstall an OS earlier today where it would flash me with errors claiming that it couldn't find hal.dll and I had to get another XP dvd and format the drive using that one in order for it to work.
FELIPE NO |
I installed the harddrive into another computer so that I could put XP on it and format it. I put it back into the original computer and it said "the disk cannot be read, press control alt delete to restart". Any suggestions?
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Could be a problem with the original computer then. Swap the hardware (motherboard, cabling, power supply) or try another hard disk on it.
Most amazing jew boots |
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Did the other hard drive work?
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Well, looks like you've ruled out the hard drive and the motherboard as problematic, since an IDE drive worked and another did not.
Fresh out of ideas, though I'm still thinking that the motherboard must be to blame somehow! I was speaking idiomatically. |
Sounds to me like it's the actual XP CD. Like I suggested earlier, try grabbing another disc somehow, or getting your current one exchanged. 'Cause if an IDE drive with an OS already on it works, yet you get the same error when you try to install XP on another IDE drive...
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
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