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| Question: | I have a multi-boot system with Linux, Win2K and WinXP. Now, whenever I start my computer, I see the following error:
autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK followed by the dreaded blue screen of death, i.e, the screen blinks, and returns: STOP: C000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down. How to fix this? |
| Answer: | Your partition is probably hidden now.To make the WinXP partition unhidden, you can use fdisk command from Linux. Linux fdisk can change the partition label, e.g. from hidden NTFS to (unhidden) NTFS. So,boot from a Linux CD-ROM, start fdisk, and change the type of the WinXP file system from 0x17 (Hidden HPFS/NTFS) to 0x7 (HPFS/NTFS).
Enter 't', ,the option to change partition types then 1(if XP is the first partition - Use 'p' to print the partitions). Then type in 7 for HPFS/NTPS . (or) Just run 'grub' from /boot, provided you have installed this partition. type: unhide (hd0,0) If you're not sure the device name required by 'unhide', check /boot/grub/grub.conf Restart and Windows will boot. |
| last updated 06.09.2003 | |
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