Don't think it is the hard drive, it is an eight month old Seagate 160 gb, and booting into Mandriva (sorry about the spelling) works just fine. I can even go into rescue and pull out my documents that are on the XP partition of the hard drive and move them to my USB jump drive.
stuartf On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Bruce Markowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Sounds like it could be a bad hard drive. What is Mandravia? Did you try > just using SP2 and not SP3? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Friedman" < > [email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:22 PM > Subject: [Thinkpad] Where to start?? XP problem on a dual boot T43 > > > Computer T43 2687-D4U, 15" Flexview XP SP 3 with all updates, Mandriva >> 2009 >> >> OK, About two weeks ago, faced with ongoing and unsolvable wireless >> problems >> in Windows, I reinstalled Windows. Over the course of a week, I got all my >> essentials back and life was good. Then, suddenly two days ago, things >> froze >> while in Windows. I was trying to access a music file at the time in Media >> Player. When I re-booted, things froze at the XP splash screen. >> >> When I put in the rescue disk I can look in events log and get two >> different >> errors, one which corresponds to the time of the freeze: >> >> RRU Co create Instance error -2147024894 >> >> >> -- >> Stuart Friedman >> Montpelier, VT USA >> 802.522.6228 >> _______________________________________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> > > -- Stuart Friedman Montpelier, VT USA 802.522.6228 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
