XP filesystem corrupt - force chkdsk?

From: Dale King (daleking@cablelynx.com)
Date: 03/17/03 

From: "Dale King" <daleking@cablelynx.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:15:43 -0800

Boot to XP cd and when it gives you choices type R for
recovery console... then you can type help and get
information on what all can be evoked - chkdsk is one.
You should be able to type chkdsk and it should run.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I am not sure why (but I have a suspicion enabling
suspend
>mode on it is the culperate), but my personal system
>crashed yesterday. At this point when I attempt to boot
>it, the machine bluescreens shortly after loading all
>drivers and shifting to the XP (Professional version, by
>the way...) startup screen. It tells me ntfs.sys is
>corrupt (joy) with a STOP 0x00000024 error, and I should
>disable any backup software or antivirus software and
run
>chkdsk. Unfortunately, that is all it does, and nothing
>more. I have been searching in vain for a way to force
it
>to run chkdsk when I can not get the blasted thing to
boot
>any further than that. My most creative attempt so far
has
>been to install XP on a seperate hard drive (without the
>original offender being connected to the system at all)
>and install the recovery console. Unfortunately, if I
>attempt to boot the new installation of XP (either
>normally, or into the recovery console) it gives up the
>ghost whenever it tries to access the second hard drive
>(now configured as a slave). This also happens if I
>attempt to repair the installation using the install CD,
>or launch the recovery console from the install CD.
>Basically right after I hit the "R" key, it dies
reporting
>the same ntfs.sys error. If I attempt a new install, it
>dies in a slightly different manner, but will not
install
>on the drive as it is currently configured. Of course,
>since I can not boot into the blasted thing I can not
get
>my product id so i have no way of submitting this to no-
>charge support either (not being one to have written it
>down, something which I will change in the future...).
One
>other thing, I ran the low level hardware diagnostics
>provided by the HD manufacturer and they reported no
error.
>
>The one fortunate thing of all this is I do have a fresh
>backup. The backup software was not installed on this
>machine, however, but run via a network share. Though it
>was one of the possible culperates mentioned by the stop
>error, it does not make sense to me that it could cause
>this.
>
>So to recap, XP Professional died. Reports STOP
0x00000024
>ntfs.sys corruption on startup. Can not boot into XP
even
>on a seperate hard drive in the system, or into the
>recovery console. Is there a way given all that, to
force
>chkdsk, or do I simply have to low level format it and
>start over? Thanks to anyone with info.
>.
>