Xp keep rebooting

Hi all,

I need some help here you experts...I have the P4 2.8 running XP. Last night I tried to update to the latest Windows security and then ran defrag overnight. When I looked at the computer the next morning, it was frozen. Now it keeps rebooting...without get me into the OS. The only thing that comes to mind is that my graphic (3-D) intensive screen saver had something to do with it.

Is there a way to get into the file system to salvage my data? I think the OS is corrupted and I want to do is to back up the data.


Things to keep in mind or attempts made:

The Maxtor ATA133 80GB HDD is connected to an OEM Promise ATA133 Raid Controller though it isn't really a RAID setup. It was done so to get the performance. I have another drive connected to the the MB via EIDE connection

I tried to boot in safe mode and command prompt mode from the corrupted OS and it seems to stop at the AGP44.SYS file. I presently have an AGP card but even tried swapping to a PCI video card to move pass this error. No success....

I also tried to install a new instance of XP on the secondary drive and try to access my data with no success. The drive shows up as RAW, unformatted.

Any suggestions would be great!

-Kevin

 

From my own experience.

Make sure Screensavers are OFF when defraging.

Any Auto updates or anything that might kickin can cause problems for defrag. I learned that WAY BACK in the days of Win95.

Question:

Why do you have to set defrag to run overnight ? Do you have one of them large HDs all in one partition ?

It would only take me about 10-15 minutes to defrag my C: drive in XP and about 5 minutes in 98SE. C: drive BTW is about the only partiton that ever gets defraged in either XP or 98SE unless I make a lot of changes on the others.

BillyBob