I have read alot in this forum about this but it was in a post in the linux forums. I hope the same resolutions apply to me. I just don't know what "grub" is ......let me explain
Got a used computer. Illegal XP pro on it. I reformat with my legal, full version XP home. Done this a few times with no problems, not this time.
Sorry if I don't word this perfect, I'm learning.....What I did.....
Reformat hard drive to ntsf? (not quick)
let the XP Home disc do it's thing
Tells me this portion is done, restarts computer
tries to run autochk and can't find it so doesnt run it
everything starts booting past the XP home screen then i get nailed with blue screen
" STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 ..."
Tried to reboot all ways(safe, ect.)
Ran Xp home disc again, I can get into repair (black) screen but don't know what to do
Ran XP home disc, pressed enter to start, ran all the way to "press f8 to accept"
Next screen I see says "can't read disc".......press enter when I have disc loaded" The disc I have is the real deal, not copied.
I can not get past this screen to start over, I have no clue what to do.
Nothing was wrong with this computer
emachine 600is, 10gig hd, nothing special, nothing on it before I started. Shouldent be anything now since I got all the way through reformat.
I read on google search to run "grub" bootloader. I have no idea which one to download or what to do with it.
Please help
Charlie
