Hi, I'm new to the forum. Yesterday, my PC broke down at the worse possible time (I had a research paper that needed to be turned in today
). At first, my PC was completely fine until I got a BSOD. After this BSOD, however, I was now unable to get pass the "genuine windows check" (the step after entering the password for starting windows). After restarting my PC at least 10 times, I recieve the same error.
I tried repairing the my windows with the Win XP cd. After finishing the repairing, I am now able to pass the "genuine windows check," but as my PC nearly finishes booting all the way, it will crash. I recieve the BSOD with:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFFFc8, 0x00000000, 0x80552211, 0x00000000)
When entered in Safe mode, it will not crash immediately after booting. But it will crash when I attempt to open something like "My Computer." When it crashes, I recieve the same BSOD message found above.
Hopefully this is only an OS problem and not hardware, but I can't help but feel that it is my HDD that is dying on me. For example, when trying to manually run CHKDSK in My Computers, I get a "ULIB.DLL (UNTFS.DLL)"error. I recently bought a new HDD incase this ever happened. There are a lot of video files, etc, that I have on my old HDD that I want to move onto the new drive. I did not install the new HDD yet, though I physically installed it into my PC (fully mounted into the case with SATA cables ready to be plugged in).
If the HDD is indeed the problem, how should I fix this dilemma? remove the previous HDD and reinstall Win XP on the new HDD?
I greatly appreciate the help, thanks.
Ben
PS: If this topic needs to be moved onto another forum, I would appreciate it if someone moved this thread for me.