Mup.sys, Cannot boot to xp... Options

[snapplehooligan]

I have run out of ideas on this one... The situation is this: Booting into XP, before you get to the logon screen, the machine turns itself off. Starting in safe mode, it gets to Mup.sys then turns itself off.

I have the hard drive partitioned: the problem is occuring on a 50 Gb NTFS WinXP Pro partition(C:) - I am currently working from the other, 10 Gb NTFS Win2k Pro partition(D:). I have access to all of the files on the broken partition(C:). The machine has 128 Mb rdram pc800. Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.3 Ghz. It's a Dell Dimension 8100.

After googling the problem several times, I have tried the following suggestions that have all failed:

+Updated my BIOS to the most resent version
+Replaced the Mup.sys with a known-to-be-good uncorrupted copy
+Swapped my memory sticks
+Booted using the install disk and gone to the recovery console and entered "Disable Mup" also "Disable Mup.sys" - this generates an error about registry problems

There seems to be a lot of talk about this, but none of the forums I have read offers a difinitive solution. I have not installed any new hardware recently.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated... I have hit a wall, and I have work that I need to be doing

Thanks in advance to anyone who tries to help!

[snapplehooligan]

QUOTE (Guest @ Jul 13 2004, 11:53 AM)

sad.gif And if all else fails...get a copy of Spinrite6 from Gibson research.

what the heck is that?

It looks to be some feature-rich data recovery software, it is priced a bit steeply for not having any documentation. I use GetDataBack for that purpose.

I have tried just about every suggestion I've read on every forum... short of purchasing new hardware. Right now I am copying all of the data to an extra hard drive that I attached.... the data that I have access to at least Hopefully I will be able to copy the protected files from the C: partition to the new G: drive if I log into C: using the recovery console... If that fails I will post back looking for other ideas for getting those protected files... Of course I have Admin privlages and passwords for each partition, but that doesn't seem to matter.

Thanks for posting that link Ali , I remember distinctly not clicking it when I got it from google because of the .nu extension... how foolish of me! It looked like the most comprehensive list of attempted and failed solutions, sadly none of them worked in my case.

~Ryan