Recent content by DBarber

Certainly. I have had a stroke of luck on this matter though... I found a hidden system volume information folder on the root of C: This folder contains recovery files and information, and just so happens to have a recovery folder with files dated 07/2013. Perfect! Now I just have to get the...

Oh yeah, the chkdsk found nothing. 0 problems. isn't that nice. Also, keep in mind that it does get past the Windows XP loading page, makes it to "loading startup scripts" and thats where it stops... Doubt its the mbr or pbr or the bios wouldn't be able to find windows anyways.

Actually, it's funny that you mention HBCD. That is one of my favorite tools, and I am bringing it tomorrow. After a little more research I have found a few files on the root of C: that are blank (0Kb) but seemingly shouldn't be. i.e. autoexec.bat, config.ini, etc. This leads me to believe that...

UPDATE: Found out the 3rd HDD has failed. Running chkdsk on the others now. will post results. Finally, pulling an internal card would be difficult as this is a rack mounted machine, and if at all possible I would like to resolve the issue without a dismount/internal operation.

UPDATE: Tried safe mode, and safe with command prompt... Both same issue. It shows all of the drivers loading, but every time stops at one called mup. not sure if that is the last one to load, and it wont proceed to the next stage of boot, or if it is the driver itself causing the boot to stop...

Also updating/migrating OS is a problem because this is a legacy machine that is slow on xp, you can forget 7. Only option would be Linux, and the higher ups aren't too fond of our flightless friend.

Haven't tried safe mode, as my boss has a bootable cd she has been asking me to use... going to try that shortly. Would not could not be windows update, as I've said it has literally 0 network connectivity and no one has applied any updates via physical media. The machine is on it's own isolated...

Little bit of updated info, It is a Lenel running Windows XP Professional. It has three HDD's, all of which have a green light for the light bulb symbol, (on the HDD itself) however only the first two have the green light on the cylindrical icon, which I assume is the access symbol. There are...

Also, the machine is not connected to the internet. It is a single machine, keyboard, monitor, and mouse, connected to a network of local cameras, but there is no LAN or WAN, therefore it couldn't have been a network related update. Just found out that when the company first moved here, the...

Hello, I work for a high security data center as an IT technician. Obviously due to the nature of my work, there are many cameras scattered throughout the building. All of these cameras are connected to one machine which seems to be an "all-in-one" solution to camera security functions. This...