XP Pro on a new HD in T60 {fatal system error}

[catfish774]

While trying to load WIN XP Pro on the new HD after SETUp has restarted the T60 I now get this message on a blue screen:



STOP: c000021a {fatal system error}

The windows login process system terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x00000402 (oxoooooooo oxoooooooo).

The system has been shut down

[Neil]

You can read up on what Microsoft has to say about the error here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156669

I would probably just zero fill the HDD then try again.

[catfish774]

You can read up on what Microsoft has to say about the error here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156669

I would probably just zero fill the HDD then try again.

zero fill the HD, OK what is that? Sorry I am no expert! You mean just wipe the new HD clean that has the partial XP software loaded? How?

I did take the new HD out of the one T60 and dropped it into my other T60 and it just went to a blue screen with an error message. Wonder if my installation CD has gone bad on me?

[RealBlackStuff]

Download DBAN from the internet (free), get the .iso version from which a self-booting CD can be made (use ImgBurn or similar software).
Boot from that CD and run that pgm on your new HD to wipe/zero-fill it.
You can stop after ~5% is done.
Then try install again.

[catfish774]

Download DBAN from the internet (free), get the .iso version from which a self-booting CD can be made (use ImgBurn or similar software).
Boot from that CD and run that pgm on your new HD to wipe/zero-fill it.
You can stop after ~5% is done.
Then try install again.

OK, will try that. I never had this trouble before when installing new HD's..

[Thinkpad Lover]

Hi, I came across this error for the first time just the other day. In my case I did a fresh install of XP SP2 without a hitch. But SP3 failed and threw this error. I just re-did the entire installation from scratch and it's fine now. It's one of those convoluted, nonsensical errors for which I don't wish to hang around Microsoft's website reading their (not always so helpful) documents all day. Just to be safe I switched both memory sticks and WIFI card and will test those in another machine as I think they're fine. BTW this occurred on a T60 also, just as your error did. I had done a BIOS flash from the Lenovo website itself and had reconfigured some hardware settings- messed with a lot of "system settings" so I assume that may have caused SP3 setup to fail and throw this error. I can tell you one thing- your XP setup disc probably has nothing to do with it. Bad setup discs cause other kinds of error. This one, however, seems to be linked to some kind of system file settings. In my case I just ran XP setup again, did a "quick NTFS format" to erase the previous installation (I had done a "Full NTFS" format the first time I set it up). And it's humming smoothly now.

Best wishes,
Daniel

[catfish774]

Download DBAN from the internet (free), get the .iso version from which a self-booting CD can be made (use ImgBurn or similar software).
Boot from that CD and run that pgm on your new HD to wipe/zero-fill it.
You can stop after ~5% is done.
Then try install again.

Windows will not allow me to copy DBAN to a CD.....(guess it might help if I used a CD-R instead of a DVD-R)

[RealBlackStuff]

This is an .ISO file!
You do NOT copy this to a CD, you BURN it from the (ISO-)Image file!
See also this: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

[ozzymud]

3 steps... download and install this:

ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Right click on the .ISO file and choose: Burn using ImgBurn

Click the big icon in the lower left of the top window... looks like a CD on paper pointing to a CD

I love this little app, works on almost ALL platforms... Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.