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

#1 Post by catfish774 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:49 am

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

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

#2 Post by Neil » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:56 am

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

#3 Post by catfish774 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:40 pm

Neil wrote: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?
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Re: XP Pro on a new HD in T60 {fatal system error}

#4 Post by RealBlackStuff » Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:03 pm

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

#5 Post by catfish774 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:25 pm

RealBlackStuff wrote: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..

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

#6 Post by Thinkpad Lover » Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:50 pm

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.

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

#7 Post by catfish774 » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:11 am

RealBlackStuff wrote: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)

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

#8 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:04 am

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

#9 Post by ozzymud » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:55 am

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

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