Can't access drive in windows but ok in Linux

[Laimbo]

I have a customer who has had a faulty CPU which I replaced. The PC is working fine now but the HDD bluescreens on startup (Windows XP). I figured it probably has some file structure damage from the incorrect shutdowns caused by the failing CPU so I boot to recovery console to run chkdsk and roll back the registry but all I get is a bluescreen (0x0c5, usually a driver issue). Same issue in another PC.

The drive is accessable when mounted in a linux boot cd however any attempt to access it in any windows or dos based program causes a bluescreen or restart. This includes Recovery console, Windows repair, WinPE boot disk, dos based diagnostics. I have run seatools on the drive which came back ok and did a copy to a new drive but same issue.

I also restored the registy in linux a few days (by the manual method, system32/config etc) but no help.

Worst case I can get the data off in linux and do a fresh intall but I would like to avoid that if possible as he is a bit of a power user and has over 700gb of data and alot of programs which would be difficult to get back.

Any insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Liam.

 

[732914TECH]

is the blue screen a 7b? if so its probably the controller set to the wrong option, IDE/ACHI/RAID mode etc, see if you can fix that in the bios and try again

 

[FoolishTech]

What if you hook the drive up to another Windows PC to run chkdsk? I don't mean try booting to the drive, I mean slave it to a working PC.

What about the HDD - did you test it?!

 

[itsJim]

Faulty CPU? That happens? I've never come across that.

 

[iisjman07]

Faulty CPU? That happens? I've never come across that.

I'll admit that was my first thought . I think the only 'faulty' CPU I've ever seen was a dropped AMD were the pins had been bent out of recognition and wasn't fixable.

 

[xxsilk109xx]

I actually have had ONE faulty CPU in an HP Pavilion laptop, go figure, thought it was the motherboard, replaced it, still same issue. Swapped out the CPU and it worked just fine, go figure lol

 

[bsod]

does safe mode blue screens. sounds like drivers to me check your ram also with memtest.

 

[Laimbo]

Thanks for the input.

is the blue screen a 7b? if so its probably the controller set to the wrong option, IDE/ACHI/RAID mode etc, see if you can fix that in the bios and try again

Bluescreen is 0x0c5. Havn't changed anything in the bios. Its an older PC so its installed in IDE mode.

What if you hook the drive up to another Windows PC to run chkdsk? I don't mean try booting to the drive, I mean slave it to a working PC.

Same thing in any PC even as a slave. I even tried connected by usb after boot up but bluescreens the moment the drive it mounted.

What about the HDD - did you test it?!

Yes, also ghosted to new drive with same fault.

Faulty CPU? That happens? I've never come across that.

Yeah i know. I did think about how that would come accross, I know I would think it was suspicious if I read it. I have only seen 3 and 2 of them have been this guys. It's and old AMD 5600. Fault is no POST, cleaned CPU and socket with electronics solvent and retested - same. Replaced CPU and boots OK. Has been replaced under warranty once before. His motherboard has also been replaced since the first one.

Does safe mode blue screens. sounds like drivers to me check your ram also with memtest.

Yep same in safe mode on any PC.


Thanks for the advice so far. I will soldier on!

 

[DanB]

spinrite

Spin rite has fixed many of these for me. It is $90.00 but given the price of drives these days it is a bargain. Grc.com
It is a tiny download. I would run it at level two first followed by level four. Never run flash except at level one.

 

[itsJim]

If you've verified the hardware to be good then I would run a virus scan with Kaspersky Live CD and/or F-Secure