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Teslan26
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Hi, there might be rather a lot of words here as I try and give a good impression of where I am and how I got there.
XP pro, service pack 3, it has always been set to update itself automatically.
5 days ago I installed a new second hard drive, and by installed I mean plugged in and it auto installed itself. No problems.
Yesterday the computer would not boot. It was crashing as soon as mup.sys was loaded (I am told that means it had begun trying to allocate resources). After removing the new hard drive, it booted fine, I am suspecting that in the move the SATA cable had come loose? Reconnected the hard drive and making sure everything was secure. Computer booted fine.
However now Avast was not starting properly. Uninstalled and reinstalled that. Did a boot scan and another normal full scan. Nothing came up.
Last night the title error (wuauclt.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.) began occuring every minute or so. Tried stopping the process in task manager to minimal effect. It is located in system32 as would be expected, so it is a legitimate process. It is, however, breaking regularly. Every time it crashes I get a small freeze and then the reporter box appears. Only thing I can think of is turning automatic updates off.
Ooh, new thing. No sound.
I really do not want to have to re-format, use the windows disk to attempt a repair? Any other obvious thoughts?
XP pro, service pack 3, it has always been set to update itself automatically.
5 days ago I installed a new second hard drive, and by installed I mean plugged in and it auto installed itself. No problems.
Yesterday the computer would not boot. It was crashing as soon as mup.sys was loaded (I am told that means it had begun trying to allocate resources). After removing the new hard drive, it booted fine, I am suspecting that in the move the SATA cable had come loose? Reconnected the hard drive and making sure everything was secure. Computer booted fine.
However now Avast was not starting properly. Uninstalled and reinstalled that. Did a boot scan and another normal full scan. Nothing came up.
Last night the title error (wuauclt.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.) began occuring every minute or so. Tried stopping the process in task manager to minimal effect. It is located in system32 as would be expected, so it is a legitimate process. It is, however, breaking regularly. Every time it crashes I get a small freeze and then the reporter box appears. Only thing I can think of is turning automatic updates off.
Ooh, new thing. No sound.
I really do not want to have to re-format, use the windows disk to attempt a repair? Any other obvious thoughts?
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Have the windows disk, it puts me into the recovery console. No real idea how to use that.
CHKDSK found one or more errors on the volume
There is no repair option if I go through set up, so there appears to only be the option to use the recovery console in order to restore windows.
chkdsk C: /f /r
This takes forever.
If that doesn't work then try a repair install. Go through windows setup and hit enter to setup windows, then F8 to agree, then R to repair.
there is, i'm afraid, no repair option when I do that.
I shall try the chkdsk command and report back. chances that my hard drive is failing? 4+ years old.
Edit: Step back again. Ran the repair tool, and am now back where I was before running chkdsk.
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