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XP stop 0x000000ED
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I looked up stop:0x000000ED and found several entries referring to an unmountable volume or HDD controllers.
It's possible it's a hard drive or IDE controller failure. It could also be the IDE cable, or if you can get into the OS either in safe or normal mode, it would indicate a driver or firmware problem.
Ir's hard to tell anymore without having more information. When do you get this error, at startup? Have you been able to get into safe mode? Any recent changes, service packs or driver updates?
Hope this helps
Good Luck!
Chris
It's possible it's a hard drive or IDE controller failure. It could also be the IDE cable, or if you can get into the OS either in safe or normal mode, it would indicate a driver or firmware problem.
Ir's hard to tell anymore without having more information. When do you get this error, at startup? Have you been able to get into safe mode? Any recent changes, service packs or driver updates?
Hope this helps
Good Luck!
Chris
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I guess I start looking into hardware issues. The easiest thing to start with would be to disconnect any other hard drives, leaving only your primary master, and try using a known good cable, maybe the one from any of the secondary drive or CD-ROM if you have them installed.
if that doesn't work, then, if you have any other sort of boot disk, I'd try to boot with that and see if you can access the hard drive, though this will depend on the partion table of that drive. Win PE or Bart's PE disk is good for this sort of thing, becuase you can still access NTFS drives. If you don't have one available, then skip this, it'll take too long to set it all up.
Maybe attempting a repair of the OS via the XP CD would help. I guess it could also be a problem with the HAL or Kernal.
To be honest, I'm not too confident about the ablility to save this HDD or the data on it, though I'd definately try. If it's only a problem with the OS and not the HDD or partition table, the a repair should work. If it turns out to be more than that, for instance, a corrupted partition table, or bad sectors on the hard drive, you may need to format and/or replace the hard drive, and that would involve the loss of the data on it.
deffinately try the simple stuff like trying another IDE cable, then, it may just be safer and easier to replace the drive and rebuild the OS from scratch. Then, at least, you can attempt to transfer the documents and other files from your currnt dive.
i'll keep thinking about this. Maybe someone else will have some better suggestions for ya.
Hope this helps
Good Luck!
Chris
if that doesn't work, then, if you have any other sort of boot disk, I'd try to boot with that and see if you can access the hard drive, though this will depend on the partion table of that drive. Win PE or Bart's PE disk is good for this sort of thing, becuase you can still access NTFS drives. If you don't have one available, then skip this, it'll take too long to set it all up.
Maybe attempting a repair of the OS via the XP CD would help. I guess it could also be a problem with the HAL or Kernal.
To be honest, I'm not too confident about the ablility to save this HDD or the data on it, though I'd definately try. If it's only a problem with the OS and not the HDD or partition table, the a repair should work. If it turns out to be more than that, for instance, a corrupted partition table, or bad sectors on the hard drive, you may need to format and/or replace the hard drive, and that would involve the loss of the data on it.
deffinately try the simple stuff like trying another IDE cable, then, it may just be safer and easier to replace the drive and rebuild the OS from scratch. Then, at least, you can attempt to transfer the documents and other files from your currnt dive.
i'll keep thinking about this. Maybe someone else will have some better suggestions for ya.
Hope this helps
Good Luck!
Chris
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