NTFS.sys error in 120GB WD...

[davidamarkley]

Hello!

I have a 120GB WD1200JB hard drive, and was going to use it as a file storage drive in a box of mine. Well, I set it to slave and the main 60GB to master, and then booted up the box. It checked out in the BIOS fine, and it started to load windows, then about the time that the "Loading" screen would go off and login screen would come up, the computer just restarts.

I tried starting in safe-mode, command-prompt, and others, to no avail.

Since it's a WD I got out the diag disk that came with it and ran a disk scan on it, and it checked out perfect. Then, I tried it in another computer, and it did the same thing to that one. When I take the 120GB drive out, the computer works fine, but then when I put the drive in as a slave, it stops the system from working correctly.

So, I put the 120GB drive in a new box, set it as master(single) and proceded to try to boot up with the 120GB(as it had win xp on it, but just decided to use a different hard drive for system, and left the windows install on the drive) but it didn't boot up, just restarted at the same place right after the Loading screen. Well, so I figured I'd try to repair the XP install, (just to see if it would work then) the CD loaded up, but then when I hit "R" to start the recovery process, it blue screens and tells me the error code "STOP 0x00000000024" NTFS.sys file error. I shut down, then restart and tried to fesh install, same blue-screen same error.

I haven't yet done a chkdsk /f which is what the error screen recommended, also I had remembered reading somewhere that maybe fixing the MBR could fix that error.

So, I'll try those two things, but if those don't work, I can't think of anything else that would help.

Do you guys have any ideas??

Thanks!

David

[meese]

NTFS.sys is a driver located in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\ . This file is only a driver and is used on the boot drive (I believe), but for some reason when that drive is installed into a system, the system tries to use the ntfs.sys on the 120GB drive. Maybe that ntfs.sys file is corrupt? Maybe screwing with the boot.ini file on the 60GB drive can get around this? Not sure. Good luck and let us know how you fix it.

[sechs]

Have you tried erasing or formating the disk?

[davidamarkley]

Thanks for the info, meese. I'll poke around the boot.ini file to see what's up with the problems. A question for you... Would it be possible to copy the known good ntfs.sys driver from the 60GB to the 120GB??

sechs: I haven't tried erasing/formatting the disk, because there are files that I would like that are on there.

Thanks!

David

[meese]

David,

I was thinking the same thing, but thought you could not boot up that drive (as slave or master). Sure if you can boot it try replacing the file.

Edit: Not sure if the NTFS.sys file has changed with any service packs.

[davidamarkley]

Well, I probably was confusing in my posts, but I can boot up the machine, but it just hangs when trying to load windows.

But, if I use a startup disk/diag disk it will work fine, so I will try to transfer the ntfs.sys file over from a known good to the 120GB.

Also, since the OSes were the same version/service packs, there shouldn't be a problem with it.

I'll keep you posted, Thanks again!

David