OT: XP fail to reboot

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Michael Yang wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I did a defragment, then chkdsk /f to an xp machine and it failed to 
> reboot, i got a bluescreen with session5_initialization_failed error.
> 
> I have looked up some online resources and replaced 
> windows\system32\ntdll.dll using bartpe live cd. The error is still 
> there. I wonder whether someone else here had similar experiences and 
> any help will be highly appreciated.

Have you tried googling for the stop code and error? In a worst case scenario 
you might have to recover your data (using the BartPE or a Linux Live CD) and 
reinstall XP.

Good Luck.
Ivan.
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