Windows XP Repair Problems --> HELP!!!

[Enigma666]

My girlfriend's family system is loaded with Windows XP Home Edition, has an AMD XP 1500, 256 MB DDR, and an ECS K7S5A. The motherboard had a shorting problem, so it was quickly replaced with a Soyo K7V-DRAGON Plus . Upon trying to restart XP, I received a message stating that:
System32\Drivers\NTFS.sys is either missing or corrupted.
And sometimes, upon attempting to enter the repair console, the system will freeze upon attempting to load the Windows Setup, and after a while will give a message stating that setupdd.sys could not be loaded, and also states that this qualifies as a Error code 7. WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN?!?! I'm not experienced in WIndows XP, and I must suffer my girlfriend's rage until it is repaired. HELP!!!

 

[dilettante]

I keep telling myself we need an "AMD Crying Towel" forum on Tek-Tips!


Have you tried Recovery Console yet?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314058

Do you think it possible that before that mobo fully cooked itself that the HD was corrupted?

I would try reinstalling Win XP from scratch. If you really need to make a good-faith attempt at recovering data off the old HD, perhaps the answer is to install a new HD and reinstall XP on it. Then using the old HD as a secondary or slave unit, do what you can to copy whatever might be intact.

Later the old HD can be examined. It might only need reformatting, it might need a low-level format. Hard to say.

But if you can't reliably read files off it you may need to wipe it clean before using it.

Anybody else?

 

[linney]

Have a read of this too.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/5/45.asp

It sounds like reFormat and reload XP.

 

[fedto]

In some cases if the mobo goes bad, it will not write to the hdd correctly. A file that is good is read off the hdd and in the process of going from memory back to the hdd the controller corruptes the file and then become unreadable or in some cases it is read and then the mobo shorts out and never returns the file. Or something like that.
You said you tried to get to the recovery console, see if you can do a repair of installation. This will replace all the files used by xp but will not disturb the programs and data already on the drive.
If this does not work, the the only choice would be format and reinstall.