Stop 0x00000024 hard drive swap

[SADIQ]

Hello good morning everyone,

This computer is a Dell Dimension 4800C.Am getting an error at start up stop 0x00000024.At the welcome if I press R for recovery console it will go to a screen that says Windows Home XP setup and on the bottom of the screen it gives the message Examining 32986MB Disk O at ID O on bus O on atapi and it will stay there for hours.I can't figure out what's wrong.Can anyone tell me if this is normal ?



Thanks in advance,

[Lillebror]

You have a happy news I am here with the cure.When i had these situation after the error message appeared I formatted the HDD using the appropriated Disk Manager on a floppy disk.after that installed Windows XP and during the Setup I opted to "Format the Partition using NTFS file system" - slow format, not the quick format,then inserted the Windows XP disc.The installation went smoooth.Everything was fine after that I can now perform CHKDSK no problem.

[Calvin K]

Obviously it sounds like you have a child play with your hard drive. If you have a spare hard drive, swap them out and install windows on the new one. Then, make the old one in as a slave. If you can access your old files, copy them from the old one to the new one. If you can not, your hard drive is unreadable.

[MrChris-]

May be you can run Chkdsk /f /r to diagonalize file corruption. You must reboot your computer before the disk scan starts.Use the Recovery Console and run Chkdsk /r,if you cannot start the system due to the error.Else you try this way you can use any windows retail installation disk or even a win98 startup floppy,by running fdisk, or the same on a bootable CD, to delete rhe partition and then remake it in the same, now unallocated, space. After that the installation should use the new partition if you tell it to. This shouldn't effect linux at all. If this doesn't work, (the disk is too large for DOS) or the disks you recieve don't do this, try leaving the space unallocated and let them partition it.