Hi i'm not sure if this is the best spot to post for a windows problem but i need the help if anyone has any ideas on a fix for it.

Oh kay my problems on my mothers computer its a 500MHZ intel pentium 3, Nvidia tnt2 Ultra, Sound blaster 128PCI, Linksys fast ether card, maxtor 20gb drive has a few errors that are not fixable but are on an isalted part of the drive thats not useable, a win modem,

the Problem is that it run's great and then one day she'll boot it and it comes up with a blue error screen during the boot that says =)error remove the devices that u have added and reboot cuz one of them is errored(=,

i have not added any for years every time i'vr had to reinstall win XP does any one now of what can be cuzing it becuase i've npt added any thing to it nor even added a game to it.

well i gtg Semper Fi

Oy, you should get used to this. It's obvous that after a while ( usually around a year ) a windows installation will start comming up with wierd errors that will make working on your PC sometimes completley impossile ( like in your case ). The only thing you can do is a complete format and reinstall.

i have vcome to notice that but i'd been wondering cuz it was an upgrade if they'd fixed it.

thats the reason i switched,

thanks for the answer unfortantly i cant reformat becuase it has about 12 years of data on it and no cdburner or any way to back it up. so unfortanly thats not gonna be possible.

thanks if anyone has an idea that i can fix it with out reformating that wwould be very helpful though i fear that becuase it's windows that there won't be a way (oh i love windows not!!!!)

Jl_dodd Semper Fi

Get yourself a Knoppix-cd and boot the bastard with that.
See if you can fix the problem from there.
You might want to (temporarely) install another harddisk to copy all the files that needs to be backed-up.(A separate partition would do the trick as well)

this you will do slave your hdd in other computer and install some disk doctor or use tweakxp then defrag. after that its back to normal again

bozart d' ki||ER
KILL ALL WINDOWS USERS

I'm used to that. This is not a rare thing. Usually when friends come to me for this kind of problem, I use gparted, or knoppix to make a new partition (resizing the other ones in order to make room) and reinstall windows on this partition. Next time you can reinstall windows on this partition without loosing data on other partitions. You can do that 2 or 3 times, after that, Windows is so broken that all the partition become infected by severe windows errors and inconsistancies. Backup your important data and reinstall everything from times to times.

This may help, but you will still need to backup first

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm