Hello, Recently i was attempting to resize my HD using partition magic. During the process y omputer lost power. Upon rebooting i receive the following blue screen error message: a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to our computer if this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. if this screen appears again, follow these steps: disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentatio or backu utils. check your HD config, and check for any updated drivers run CHKDSK /F to check for HD corruption, and then restart your computer. technical info: *** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x8a368268, 0xc0000102, 0x00000000) After receiving the error msg i restarted and received the same error. I have valuable informaton on the HD that i can not do without. Knowing that, i still tried to reboot with the dell recovery cd and i again receive the following blue screen: *** STOP: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf748e08f, 0xf78da208, 0xf78d9f08) *** pci.sys - address f748e0bf base at f7487000, datestamp 3c0bfadb I was reading that the pci.sys error has something to do with service pack 2. If i spstream the SP2 into the recovery cd i could possibly get around such a msg. However, i would rather avoid such a procedure as i do not think it would provide a solution. I have tried to boot with the "last known good configuraton," debug mode, all with the same results. Here are my comp specs: Dell dimension 9100. 3.0 ghz 2gb ram 250gb MAXTOR 7L250S0 PORT SATA-0 WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Why did you ignore the PM warnings about backing up because you could lose all your data? You can't use the recovery cd as it wipes the disk and puts things back to factory defaults. Only solution I know is to buy/get a full version of Media Center and do a repair installation. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Hi GU014 Don't know the real state of your hard drive files system Does not look good You have keep trying to get users files off the drive These are long shots:- Try SpinRite - it is claimed to do wonders on hard drives? Read here and see what you make of it:- http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Could try Knoppix boot CD and see what it makes of your file system - may not make much of it - but may be worth a try for the price of a download or CD-rom? Or maybe one of the files recovery software packages - Google search Professional recovery services are available at a cost! - Google search David

Another thing you might consider would be to inquire at PM tech support. This has happened to others using their software and they may be able to help solve the problem or give you and idea of how salvageable your partition is.

Get ranish on a bootable cd like the ulitmate boot cd and try to fix it. I agree that you should have considered the warnings. Without knowing how far into the process you got you may be out of luck. The last resort is a raw copy of the data and try to piece it back. Trust me that takes a very long time. Before you bork it more consider Badboys's advice. Also search for any other posts that are about that across the web.

May you see all original partitions? You can download the partition table doctor demo version and create a bootable floppy disk to see. partition table doctor demo download

as an update: i removed the serial ata HD from the system and booted the same way from the cd and i received the exact same pci.sys blue screen. Maybe this would shine some light on the problem?