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    XP, AHCI, BSoDs, and Headaches

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Sho Mitsuharu, Dec 28, 2009.

  1. Sho Mitsuharu

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    So I've been running XP SP3 on my laptop happily for six or seven months, installed with AHCI drivers slipstreamed onto my install CD. Yesterday, I woke up to find my computer in a BSoD loop with the error code 0x00000024 which I later found to be a NTFS problem. The weird thing is that I have Vista installed on the same hard drive, but I could access the XP partition perfectly fine from Vista.

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    After trying numerous supposed solutions, I decided to change the controller mode from AHCI to IDE, and BAM XP works again. But now I'm without AHCI, and I have five external hard drives that I occasionally swap around. There is no indication of any missing driver files, and the registry entries all seem to be there. Has anyone else had the same experience, seen this before, offer any conclusions, etc...?

    I feel like such an idiot. Anyway, something did remove my iastor.sys file, and a simple replace did the trick. I only checked the DrvStore folder earlier instead of both that one and the Drivers folder under System32.
     
    Sho Mitsuharu, Dec 28, 2009
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