need help

[spacecoast]

I have a Dell 2400 and when i start it up it wont boot,i get a blue screen that says stop 0x00000024 ect ect ect it wont even let me go into safe mode,tried my xp disk and nothing,tried the startup disk and nothing, did the boot sequence and boot only nothing:mad: my dvd cd rom works,normal sounds from hard drive seems fine what to do what to do any one with some tricks out there i would greatly appreciate it please help cus i dug out my 3 gb comp out of the closet:o

[HFC]

maybe u could try opening the case and reconnecting the cables that goes to the hard drive,it helped me one time i had a similar problem,good luck.

[spacecoast]

thnx HFC, i tried that but it wasnt it so i had to go the last resort which was reinstall so i'm all good now

[Chaser]

Its definitly an error that refered to your hard drive partition being corrupt, as far as I know there is no way to fix it... Maybe some googling would have done you some good but if there was no important files your best bet was to just reformat like you did.

If it happens again i'd look at getting a new harddrive, they arent very expensive if you want a standard one. If your harddrive is starting to go out it would be wise to backup frequently if you have important files you dont want to lose again.

Glad you got it fixed though.

[[Jett]-Willow]

It sounds like your MBR (Master Boot Record) is fubar. Can you get to the recovery console?

[spacecoast]

yeah i did a reinstall after searching the www for solutions:mad: my last resort was to reinstall everything after dell sent me some disks, luckily i kept my important stuff on cd's I'm back up and running fresh and clean:)

[[Jett]-Melvinator]

Well, the way I have mine setup is........ I have two 500 gig hard drives. One is with windows xp and I have only the basic crap on it in order to run my Steam games and other small bs stuff. The other I run Ubuntu Linux for surfing,email,movies, spreadsheets, DVD burning and everything else. Therefore, I don't have to worry about getting a virus or something along that line while surfing the net while in Linux. The windows side is used only for playing my games, nothing else.

[[Jett]-Dsru]

-Melvinator;9552'] The other I run Ubuntu Linux for surfing,email,movies, spreadsheets, DVD burning and everything else. Therefore, I don't have to worry about getting a virus or something along that line while surfing the net while in Linux.

no worries?

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/11/26/linux-virus-a-false-sense-of-security/

[[Jett]-Melvinator]

Never had a problem in 5 years. As the article stated, you would have to run it from root, as I do not. And I only get my programs from the Ubuntu sites and repositories, nothing from outside unless I know for sure that the program is safe. I only run under user and never root, plus I have a different password for root than I do for my user account. I have placed virus's on my Linux machine desktop and tried to open them, they would not open. It could not recognize the file. I feel safe with what I have. But I agree that out there somewhere there is a virus just waiting. But the thing to remember is you have to know where your programs are coming from and trust the site that you are downloading from. I have not had any problems since I went to Linux many years ago, and I do not regret leaving windows. I only use windows for Steam and a few other games. I have a new program from codeweavers called "crossover". It works great. I can run steam in Linux with no problem.