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I have one more query : recently i started getting the above mentioned BSOD and also the bios reports an error. According to beep code it is a parity error. So i want to know if it could indeed be caused bad drivers or it is a purely hardware problem.

Ok I get the deal. I was under the impression that prevention is always better than cure. It is true that I'll be iterating through lots of directories, so an external program will indeed slow it down.

Thanks MrJinje i will try it out. thanks, but i was only looking for alternative to try - catch block .

yes thats what i'm using now. but its not a good programming approach isn't it ? Some other sites i came across, mentioned something called as "access control list" to retrieve the permissions related information. but i couldn't understand how to use it.

I'm new to programming with C#. I am coding a simple VC# program which will parse a directory selected by a user and write all the files and directories to a file. To get the directories and files list , I'm using the directory info and File info class. Now, the problem is for protected directories like "System Volume Information", it throws an UnAuthorizedAccess Exception. how do i detect whether i have permission to access the directory.

ok, i'll do that thanks again for all the help

wow, that's odd ! because there is no broadcom component in my hardware, so its unusual that particular driver has been loaded by the OS in the first place. btw will PFN_LIST_CORRUPT also be caused by the same issue ?

no problem take your time. thanks for all the help

guess i'll have to take age ol method of save,format & forget :'(

Got another BSOD today, a different one... PFN_LIST_CORRUPT STOP: 0x0000004E (0x0000009A, 0x00009E02, 0x00000002 , 0x00000000)

Thank you cluberti, I'll upload it by tomorrow. the compressed size of Memory.dmp comes to around ~240 Mb

well for some reason i had previously set a full memory dump, so its a ~2 GB dump now could you tell me what i've to do to analyze it ? i do that and post the results... -- meanwhile should i change dump setting to minimal or kernel dump , just in case the BSOD happens again i could post the kind of dump which you want.

Bug trace: http://www.mediafire.com/?jgnij2d2l4m --- Got a shiny new BSOD today :'( BAD_POOL_CALLER STOP: 0x0000000C2 (0x00000007,0x00001097,0x8AFOBB64,0x852DD730)

I ran the trace for hibernate mode, and the trace dump is about 81 Mb (~20 compressed) , do you want me to host it somewhere and pm the link ? --- btw i forgot to mention that sometimes i've had issues when resuming from standby - the monitor would be on , but will only display an entirely black screen. so i'd usually put it to standby again and resume it, it would be fine. so your guess of a driver issue seems highly probable.

OK, i will try it out. is there any alternative to the microsoft debugging tool + symbols cache for debugging memory dumps ?

yes, it gives the safe mode and other options, and also the event viewer report states: "SleepInProgress - false "

I couldn't find any significant error in even viewer. one thing though it has correctly recorded the time when i switched off the PC, even though the PC seemed like it had crashed...

I'm using a windows 7 Ultimate, x86 which stops working randomly without any reason. since the problem always occured when i was away from the desktop i'm not able to tell what exactly happened . I just leave windows is running, and return back to find that the monitor has gone into power saving mode and i found that the CPU was still powered on but there was no HDD usage at all. There is no response to any keyboard or mouse activity. Initially i felt it could have been because the PC had gone into sleep because of power options, but then the CPU is still on. Upon on pressing power switch it INSTANTLY shuts down. -- I doubt this could be due to 3rd party software incompatibility, because i haven't installed anything new in the past few days.

@johnhc as i mentioned in the first post, i have been using the repair option all along, but it was'nt working. But then i tried the fully automated mode , and i got varied results... In virtual box emulator, it still doesn't show the repair option BUT, When i tested it directly on my hardware it worked properly. One thing to note is - I had installed this by transferring XP setup to USB using "winsetup from USB" tool, so i'm not sure if its the reason why it worked this time.

Using the following code, skips EULA in both the first as well as second stage of setup. As a consequence, the repair option is also hidden during the text mode setup. [Unattended] OemSkipEula=Yes Is there any way to have the repair mode enabled and automatically skip the EULA in the 2nd stage (i don't mind having it in text mode setup) , i.e. GUI mode (shown in screen shot 1)

thanks , got rid of the problems

I've been trying to use Nlite to create silent installation of windows xp sp3, with post sp3 updates integrated. however i find that in two places (in 2nd stage of installation) setup expects user input (see attached screenshot). can anybody tell me how to avoid the same. note: I've used the repair mode option in nlite, but even when i tried with unattended mode i got the same result. thanks LAST SESSION.INI

In my case, I had never used the default administrator account. but what puzzles me, is to exactly which files, these settings are applied. For example, I'm able to delete all files of a windows xp installation from windows 7, no questions asked, and without taking ownership either. But two system files created by adobe flash (FlashUtil10c.exe,10c.ocx) in system32 cannot be deleted easily.

yes, i'm sure they were "real" files and not hard links or anything else. (twunk.dll, then all the win 7 wall papers, winhelp.exe etc....) in windows xp , i did not get any error message, except stating that the files cannot be deleted. -- anyway i managed to delete the files from windows 7. But i still don't understand how it worked out. Initially i had to take ownership for each file separately , and so i could delete files one by one only. and then also i had to set permission first to the default administrator account,(even though my account was also an administrator account), and then assign permissions to my user account before i could delete the file. to delete entire folders i had to browse to the top most folder and set permission for all categories (SYSTEM,CREATOR,ADMINISTRATOR, my user account) and then set the permissions to be inherited to all sub-folders and files . any of you can give more information on how these work , because until now, whenever i took ownership of a folder, I was able to delete all the files in that folder, never faced this problem before. thanks for your help jaclaz and gosh.

I have some files from windows setup which i used to create Win 7 PE. After i finished creating it, i find that the files have been set to "a" attribute , so i'm not able to delete them. I have already tried : Unlocker utility changing attribute manually with file properties tried with attrib.exe taking ownership of files using 3rd party attribute changing s/w deleting file during windows boot. all have failed miserably . any clues how to remove it ? OS: Win XP SP3 FS: NTFS