I have an HP desktop that I am working on for the past couple of days and am at a bit of an impass.
The system is giving and error message of stop: 0x0000007b(0xf7934524,0xc00000034,0x00000000x0x00000000)
Now, here is the quirky part. The system will boot into safe mode, but will continuously restart if you try to boot it normally. I have checked the hard drive for integrity using Spin Rite 6.0 and the HDD is good. XP seems to think it is a problem with the partition. This system did not come with an XP disk, but it came with the HP restore CD’s (9 of them!). When you try to boot with the restore CD’s normally you will have 2 choices for restore, one with just overwrite windows and leave all programs in place and the other is to completely rewrite the HDD. Only the completely rewrite HDD is available, it thinks the partition is not formatted properly. Funny since the system will boot into safe mode. Now there is data on the machine that needs to be retrieved. Of course owner did not do any backups, so a system rewrite is out of the question at this moment.
I have checked for viruses and none have been found. I am at a loss right now and would really appreciate any suggestions that you all may have. Thanks.
