WinXP Crashes at boot/chkdsk

[Octane]

Good evening all,

Significant system specs:
-Gigabyte 7AVXP
-Athlon 1.4
-Gigabyte Radeon 9700 128mb
-RAID0: 2x WD 40gb 7200rpm
-TBSC
-Windows XP SP1

This morning my computer crashed when I tried to access a folder [on my raid0], the system crashed... took a while to reboot (like 7 minutes), but it eventually did on its own.

Thought nothing of it, rebooted and went to bed. When I woke up, tried to access another folder, same crash. This time, chkdsk loaded up automatically but crashed at 30%. Rebooted and the same chkdsk crash. :Q

Skipping chkdsk caused an immediate crash as well.

Loading XP using "last known good config" got me to windows, but crashed upon any attempt at accessing a folder.

I tried running "chkdsk /r" from the repair console and it did the same: crashed midway. :disgust:

Sidenote: I've been getting those nasty RPC crashes but I didn't do anything about it because I didn't know it was a universal threat just a system error.

Now I turn to you, what do I do?
Is it a hardware problem? I tried starting the system with only the critical components. My hdd's aren't clicking either and the RAID shows up as working in POST.

Reinstall XP over my current installation (so I can at least get my data before reformatting)? It is raid0 after all... Any other suggestions not as radical?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Octane]

hopeful bump

 

[ITJunkie]

sounds like the blaster virus...

 

[Octane]

Originally posted by: ITJunkie
sounds like the blaster virus...

blaster virus doesn't cause this stuff though...

it does no real damage

this problem is rendering my computer unusable. it freezes on any system scan (antivirus, disk doctor, chkdsk, etc.)

any ideas? please!!

 

[redsalamander]

Posibly a bad HDD.

Try accessing the disk from another PC. run a scan on it from another machine. If you find anything wrong make sure you copy data to the disk for l8r recovery.

 

[Octane]

Originally posted by: redsalamander
Posibly a bad HDD.

Try accessing the disk from another PC. run a scan on it from another machine. If you find anything wrong make sure you copy data to the disk for l8r recovery.

Thanks for the reply redsalamander... thats what I was thinking. Just so happened to that my raid crapped out the day of the RPC bomb.

Too bad its a RAID0 and I can't put it in another machine =/

Guess, I'll have to live with the stuff I can backup.

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: Octane

Originally posted by: redsalamander
Posibly a bad HDD.

Try accessing the disk from another PC. run a scan on it from another machine. If you find anything wrong make sure you copy data to the disk for l8r recovery.

Thanks for the reply redsalamander... thats what I was thinking. Just so happened to that my raid crapped out the day of the RPC bomb.

Too bad its a RAID0 and I can't put it in another machine =/

Guess, I'll have to live with the stuff I can backup.

Hello Octane my sweetheart

Although I am not experienced with your particular problem, the Blaster Worm could very well be the culprit. There is now three known and confirmed releases/variants of the worm, which takes advantage of an RPC bug/glitch in Windows NT based systems. The clitch can give anyone full administrative access to do whatever they please, including formatting complete drives remotly. So its very possible someone has deleted, modified, or moved a file or a group of files cuaseing a problem with your system.

You can try backing up as much data as possible, perhaps by trying
NTFS Reader for Dos, and then re-install XP overtop to see how it works. Then I would reccomend re-installing WinXP fresh.

And you really should be running a firewall. Even XP Pros builtin firewall works great.

Edit: Also note, this guy has a somewhat similar problem, although hes not running RAID, his drive appears to be corrupt to, possibly due in part to Blaster worm.

 

[leolaw]

whenever I heard ppl complaining about their windows are crushing, i usually pull out one quote:

"it is a good excuse to switch from windows to linux now!"