grana Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hi everyone, i can normally fix or overcome xp 'nightmares' myself but this one has really got me! Please help as I have important recording session for a movie soundtrack tomorrow and rely on all my equipment! I formatted and reinstalled a new copy of XP Pro a few days ago on my Samsung R560 laptop(Centrino dual core 2.66GHz, 4GB Ram). Spent all weekend and today re-installing apps-software and optimizing XP (using w/ professional recording studio). Everything was going excellent and nearly ready until i decided to partition my internal laptop HD w/ Partition Magic. I recently bought and installed the current HD and has been working no probs till today. It is a Seagate Momentus SATA 7200 rpm for faster handling. Partition Magic froze half way thru the 1st 'job' which was re-allocating C drive size. I had to switch off. Since it's all gone very wrong! If i choose to boot in safe mode(s) it reads of a stream of .sys files, freezes and then blue screen (a problem has been detected... error message).If i boot w/ normal windows start-up option it freezes during xp load screen and also jumps to blue screen.Even worse, if i boot to XP Cd, before it even reaches the repair or install screen, it says that 'The file i2omp.sys is corrupt. Press any key to continue' and then restarts. I cannot use the ASR function as this requires floppy(s) as far as i have seen. Worst case scenario, i could format and restart all again but a can't even achieve that at the mo. The HD doesn't have a 'reset' jumper either. I apologize for the long message but i felt it necessary to include all the above.I would really appreciate any support/advice as i need an up and running OS with all my progs by tom morning. My neck is on it! I also have a macbook but that is also playing up for other reasons so other option 'not an option'...Thanks in advance, Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 As you cannot even boot from your XP Cd, do you have the option to take the hard drive out and format it in another computer ?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grana Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 As you cannot even boot from your XP Cd, do you have the option to take the hard drive out and format it in another computer ?.Hi, i can't cos it's an internal sata laptop drive and although i've got 2 other laptops, i'd need a laptop w/ an extra hd slot i guess. There is prob another way to do this but i do not know how that wud work. Thanks for the suggestion mate,Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 As you have a working Cd drive why not download G-Parted and format the hard drive then do a fresh install.You need to download the ISO then burn it as an ISO file to disk then boot from it.http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=271779 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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