I have Windows XP professional installed on the c: drive of my computer and I have Linux Fedora Core 3 on a second hard drive. The dual boot option screen functions fine and I don't suspect that Linux has anything to do with XP's problems, but I suppose I could be wrong. My prime suspect is the Partition Commander software that I recently installed because I have heard that partition managing software is known to cause the same autocheck problems that I have seen.
When XP starts to boot it goes to a light blue screen that reads:
autochk program not found-skipping AUTOCHECK
that lingers for a bit and then a bright blue screen comes up that reads:
Top: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
Teh Session Manager Initialization process terminated unexpectedly with a
status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down
So my approach so far was to boot from the install disk from my XP home edition that came with the Dell computer package (I could not find the install CD for the XP proffessional that is currently installed) and make a repair attempt. Chkdsk found nothing wrong but I ran it anyway to no avail and then I tried using fixboot command and still the same two error screens come up. Also I tried to boot up in safe mode but couldn't. I have most of the drive's data backed up on CD's so reinstallation is an option but I would really like to avoid the time and energy expenditure of locating the XP Pro disk and reloading all of my files.
Thanks for your help.
pat
When XP starts to boot it goes to a light blue screen that reads:
autochk program not found-skipping AUTOCHECK
that lingers for a bit and then a bright blue screen comes up that reads:
Top: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
Teh Session Manager Initialization process terminated unexpectedly with a
status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down
So my approach so far was to boot from the install disk from my XP home edition that came with the Dell computer package (I could not find the install CD for the XP proffessional that is currently installed) and make a repair attempt. Chkdsk found nothing wrong but I ran it anyway to no avail and then I tried using fixboot command and still the same two error screens come up. Also I tried to boot up in safe mode but couldn't. I have most of the drive's data backed up on CD's so reinstallation is an option but I would really like to avoid the time and energy expenditure of locating the XP Pro disk and reloading all of my files.
Thanks for your help.
pat