theoneandonly
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After using the computer for 5 minutes this afternoon it shut down unexpectedly. When I tried to reboot it went past the Windows boot screen, showed the dreaded BSOD (much too fast to read though) and then shut down only to restart itself again.
I turned the "restart on system failure" option off so that I could read the BSOD. It says "SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED" and the rest of the BSOD stuff.
I can't restart in "last known configuration" and safe mode also doesn't work. I tried to boot off the Windows XP cd but it asks me for a system recovery floppy that I dont have.
From what I've read is that a fresh install not always solves the problem but that really isn't the issue. My drives are RAID0'ed on 2 120gb Barracudas and none of the information is backed up....stupid of me I know....
What other options are there?
Could I buy another SATA drive and install a fresh copy of windows on that? And then access the info on the RAIDED Drives that way?
Thanks for the help. :snob:
I turned the "restart on system failure" option off so that I could read the BSOD. It says "SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED" and the rest of the BSOD stuff.
I can't restart in "last known configuration" and safe mode also doesn't work. I tried to boot off the Windows XP cd but it asks me for a system recovery floppy that I dont have.
From what I've read is that a fresh install not always solves the problem but that really isn't the issue. My drives are RAID0'ed on 2 120gb Barracudas and none of the information is backed up....stupid of me I know....
What other options are there?
Could I buy another SATA drive and install a fresh copy of windows on that? And then access the info on the RAIDED Drives that way?
Thanks for the help. :snob: