If you can boot into safe mode you can right-click on My computer, Select Properties, Advanced tab, Look for the settings of "Startup and Recovery". Uncheck automatically restart.
If (when) the BSOD occurs you can then read it to see what it say. I've found the solution to most BSOD errors is to install Linux only ;-) -Chris On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been reading this Page: > http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm, and from what I > can gather from it, is that if I run boot.in and NTLDR files, and it boots > up, then that would indicate that the problem is in the MBR and/or partition > table, and that once I get into the system, I should be able to find the > partition table stored in C:\WINNT\system32\dmadmin.exe > and a few other locations. I suppose that if I can access these files, then > I can compare it with the current partition table to determine if it has > been corrupted. I don't have much time to work on this today, but I will > continue to post progress. I may be able to figure this out myself, buy any > suggestions would be appreciated, of course. > > Thanks > Paul > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:39:32 -0700 > Subject: [LinuxUsers] blue screen of death > > I ran parted magic on my friends laptop, only to look which broadcom > wireless model he had. > While restarting, he plugged in his flash drive, and afterwards it got the > blue screen of death. The blue screen only pops up for less than a second, > so it cannot be read. Can plugging the flash drive in during bootup cause > the MBR to be corrupted? Is there a possibility that the Parted Magic OS > could have caused the problem? In other words, if it was not shut down > properly, could the Parted Magic have caused a problem? > > I've been checking out the Hirens boot disk, and the disk that Roger called > coolcd.iso, and I found the MBR Save/Restore tool, but I couldn't figure out > how to make it work, and I couldn't find any documentation online. I did > find a users manual for the Active Partition Recovery. > > We ran a utility called: MBRWorks, and it is showing me the partition table. > > Can anyone suggest which tool I should be running to restore this disk > operational, and hopefully a documentation page, since I will not be able to > figure out how to run the program without documentation, and or user manual. > > I did find this website that explained the MBR: > http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm > > Is this good info? I also have other websites that I have archived about the > windows method of mbr. Is understanding the XP style MBR the key to the > situation, and how can I tell if the boot record is even the problem. > > Thanks > Paul > > ________________________________ > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See how. > ________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check > it out. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
