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Rudi Posted on May 27, 2009
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Blue Screen c000021a

Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2, Bios A10. Laptop will not boot to OS. Error message "STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}. The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a statu of 0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down." Laptop does boot to safe mode. Cannot rollback to previous good configuration. Cannot complete system restore - after reboot get a message that system restore failed. HD is listed in the BIOS setup. Attempted to run repair from XP CD, and Setup "did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer". After attempt, my HDD Password is Frozen. Pressing F9 Setup Defaults unfreezes HDD Password. After reboot, I go back to BIOS Setup, shift the CD drive to the top, restart, boot from CD, press R, no drive found, etc.

  • Rudi May 27, 2009

    Hi LMITC - the problem was not the computer name - it was actually only my first name anyway, and although I tried shortening that, it did not good.



    Stanalichthbr - I think swapping out the hard drive is beyond what I am willing/able to do...



    additional info - the Device Manager says the HD is working properly.



  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    Did you sort your problem.

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Boot system into safe mode. locate the icon for my computer. right click and go to properties. locate the computer name tab and select it. find the radio button for "change" and click it. rename the computer to something considerably shorter then what you have. the system cannot boot and complete the logon process if the computer name is longer than 200 "bytes"

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Next step is remove hard drive and see if it is recognized in another computer. The Hard Drive could just be bad, but you need to rule out the motherboard drive controllers that could also be bad. Also try a known good drive in your system.

Char S.

  • Anonymous May 27, 2009

    First Time I read this I somehow missed where you said you can boot into safe mode. Can you try to disable any start up programs or processess using msconfig from start-run menu. and then try rebooting. You may have a virus or malware causing this trouble.



    Char S.

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