Service Pack 4 screwed up my HD

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I installed the service pack 4, restarted...got the blue
screen of death...saying that my HD was inaccessible...so
it said restart if this is the first time...i did...got it
again, so i couldnt even get into windows...i tried playin
around in bios but that didnt do anything...SO i ended up
spending 120$ on a new HD, which i installed XP off of
real quick just to see if i could fix my HD, which..when i
installed XP it scanned the HD the service pack screwed up
and it seems that thousands upon thousands of files had
invalid security signings and such so XP Fixed my HD...its
still buggy right now...i get the blue screen of death
when i shut down my comp now saying crap about driver
power stuff...i dunno..i think microsoft screwed up with
this service pack or something...wish there was a way i
could get my 120 bucks from em or something considering
its their fault my old HD died anyway.
 
First off MS did not "screw" up your HD I have installed
SP4 on 100+ computers without problems. That being said
why don't you post some errors (with text) and we will try
to help you. Also it's not MS's fault that you ran out
and spent $120 on a new disk before trying to solve the
problem.
 
Spoken like a true MS employee. (Or truely brainwashed !!!)
OK, I see he's gone off the deep end with the "get
120.00 back from MS" statement. Everbody knows Gates
didn't get rich giving away money. (Except of course for
those chain emails...Kidding) But you know the truth is
that MS has been serving up new versions of the same old
Windows programs and drivers (while updated) that have
been around since '95. Could you imagine what life would
be like if you had to buy a new Chevy every year at full
price because last year's model suddenly and without
warning swerved off of the road?
I understand this person's attitude because I've recently
experienced a similar problem. I installed a service pack
and now get the blue screen of death every time I try to
boot up. Can't boot up in safe mode, or even get to a
command prompt. Message states a problem with NTDLL.DLL.
Anybody know how to fix a problem like this? Even a
practical computer illiterate like myself would know to go
to DOS and copy the old file over from a different
computer, but I can't even get to the DOS prompt.
 
Well actually, i was joking about the 120 dollar back
thing, i know they would never do it anyway. unless they
blew it up themselves....but yea same thing happened to
me...couldnt get into dos or anything, i tried fixing it
in BIOS but that didnt do anything....so what i did to fix
it worked and now im still on my original HD which works
perfectly fine now and plus i have an added 120 gigs of
extra storage....so im alright with that lol...just wish i
didnt have to spend a day of my time to work out all of
the bugs...so....can MS like...send me back in time so i
can get my day back? that would be good....;) (oh and plus
it was my parents who ran off and bought the HD...which i
have to pay for now, i wasnt actually going to buy one
till after i talked to an expert =P)
 
I'm not a MS employee or a MS bible thumper I'm just a
network administrator that would like people to try to
trouble shoot an issue before assuming it is MS's fault
and that they are being forced to buy new hardware. If
you had a car that swerved off the road would you not have
someone look at it before buying a new car?
 
You have truely got to be kidding me. Does it take a
network administrator to keep the average computer up and
running these days? I see a lot of messages on this site
about folks who've done nothing more than install an
update that is sent out my MS, and the next thing you know
they simply don't have a working computer anymore. And
where's the help from MS when this happens? Well sir I'm
here to tell you that it is non-existent. That's why
we're forced to ask questions on this message board. How
much more simply can I state it than this. I notice that
you didn't have an answer to my problem either. Come on
Mr. Network administrator, tell me how to fix this and
I'll send you ten bucks. (would be well worth it)
And by the way, I'd by a different brand of car, but in
the case of MS, we don't really have a choice now do we?
 
Dave said:
You have truely got to be kidding me. Does it take a
network administrator to keep the average computer up and
running these days?
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Of course it doesn't, but Network Admins have the tendency to know just a
bit more about computers than the average user. For that reason it seems
logical that a Network Admin might be able to help out if a user gets
stuck.

here to tell you that it is non-existent. That's why
we're forced to ask questions on this message board. How
much more simply can I state it than this. I notice that
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That's fine, that's what it's here for.

you didn't have an answer to my problem either. Come on
Mr. Network administrator, tell me how to fix this and
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Boot using a dosdisk, (using ntfs4dos if you have a NTFS partition), and
then extract the file from the cab file on the cd (or copy it from
another computer) and copy it over the problematic file.

Alternatively - if you _do indeed_ have a 2nd computer available: insert
the HDD with the faulty file as a 2nd HDD (slave) in the 2nd PC, and copy
the file directly.

I'll send you ten bucks. (would be well worth it)
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Contact me via email and I'll let you know where to send your tenner to..
;-)

Regards,
Dutchee
 
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