Error Messages
There are hundreds of errors one might see during a computer's startup process. However, there are a select few that might be related to hard drive failure. An error message gives you a specific place to work from, unlike a vague symptom like a blank screen or no power at all.
- BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart.
- Hal.dll is missing or corrupt. Please re-install a copy of the above file.
- NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart.
- Fixed disk 0 failure / Failure Fixed Disk 0
- Fixed disk 1 failure / Failure Fixed Disk 1
- Primary master hard disk fail
- Primary slave hard disk fail
- Secondary master hard disk fail
- Secondary slave hard disk fail
A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), technically called a STOP error, occurs when Windows suffers a serious error and is forced to stop completely. Since a blue screen error gives you no choice but to restart, troubleshooting one can be difficult task and you may consider setting up a new hard drive with fresh copy of Windows.
Here is an incomplete list of Stop Error codes
- 0x00000002: DEVICE QUEUE NOT BUSY
- 0x00000003: INVALID AFFINITY SET
- 0x00000004: INVALID DATA ACCESS TRAP
- 0x00000005: INVALID PROCESS ATTACH ATTEMPT
- 0x00000006: INVALID PROCESS DETACH ATTEMPT
- 0x00000007: INVALID SOFTWARE INTERRUPT
- 0x00000008: IRQL NOT DISPATCH LEVEL
- 0x00000009: IRQL NOT GREATER OR EQUAL
- 0x0000000A: IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
- 0x0000000B: NO EXCEPTION HANDLING SUPPORT
- 0x0000000C: MAXIMUM WAIT OBJECTS EXCEEDED
- 0x0000000D: MUTEX LEVEL NUMBER VIOLATION
- 0x0000000E: NO USER MODE CONTEXT
- 0x0000000F: SPIN LOCK ALREADY OWNED
- 0x00000010: SPIN LOCK NOT OWNED
- 0x00000011: THREAD NOT MUTEX OWNER
- 0x00000012: TRAP CAUSE UNKNOWN
- 0x00000013: EMPTY THREAD REAPER LIST
- 0x00000014: CREATE DELETE LOCK NOT LOCKED
- 0x00000016: CID HANDLE CREATION
- 0x00000017: CID HANDLE DELETION
- 0x00000018: REFERENCE BY POINTER
- 0x00000019: BAD POOL HEADER
- 0x0000001A: MEMORY MANAGEMENT
- 0x0000001B: PFN SHARE COUNT
- 0x0000001C: PFN REFERENCE COUNT
- 0x0000001D: NO SPIN LOCK AVAILABLE
- 0x0000001E: KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
- 0x00000020: KERNEL APC PENDING DURING EXIT
- 0x00000021: QUOTA UNDERFLOW
- 0x00000022: FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000023: FAT FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000024: NTFS FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000025: NPFS FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000026: CDFS FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000027: RDR FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000028: CORRUPT ACCESS TOKEN
- 0x00000029: SECURITY SYSTEM
- 0x0000002A: INCONSISTENT IRP
- 0x0000002B: PANIC STACK SWITCH
- 0x0000002C: PORT DRIVER INTERNAL
- 0x0000002D: SCSI DISK DRIVER INTERNAL
- 0x0000002E: DATA BUS ERROR
- 0x0000002F: INSTRUCTION BUS ERROR
- 0x00000030: SET OF INVALID CONTEXT
- 0x00000031: PHASE0 INITIALIZATION FAILED
- 0x00000032: PHASE1 INITIALIZATION FAILED
- 0x00000034: CACHE MANAGER
- 0x00000035: NO MORE IRP STACK LOCATIONS
- 0x00000036: DEVICE REFERENCE COUNT NOT ZERO
- 0x00000037: FLOPPY INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x00000038: SERIAL DRIVER INTERNAL
- 0x00000039: SYSTEM EXIT OWNED MUTEX
- 0x0000003A: SYSTEM UNWIND PREVIOUS USER
- 0x0000003B: SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION
- 0x0000003C: INTERRUPT UNWIND ATTEMPTED
- 0x0000003D: INTERRUPT EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
- 0x0000003E: MULTIPROCESSOR CONFIGURATION NOT SUPPORTED
- 0x0000003F: NO MORE SYSTEM PTES
- 0x00000040: TARGET MDL TOO SMALL
- 0x00000041: MUST SUCCEED POOL EMPTY
- 0x00000042: ATDISK DRIVER INTERNAL
- 0x00000043: NO SUCH PARTITION
- 0x00000044: MULTIPLE IRP COMPLETE REQUESTS
- 0x00000045: INSUFFICIENT SYSTEM MAP REGS
- 0x00000046: DEREF UNKNOWN LOGON SESSION
- 0x00000047: REF UNKNOWN LOGON SESSION
- 0x00000048: CANCEL STATE IN COMPLETED IRP
- 0x00000049: PAGE FAULT WITH INTERRUPTS OFF
- 0x0000004A: IRQL GT ZERO AT SYSTEM SERVICE
- 0x0000004B: STREAMS INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x0000004C: FATAL UNHANDLED HARD ERROR
- 0x0000004D: NO PAGES AVAILABLE
- 0x0000004E: PFN LIST CORRUPT
- 0x0000004F: NDIS INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x00000050: PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA
- 0x00000051: REGISTRY ERROR
- 0x00000052: MAILSLOT FILE SYSTEM
- 0x00000053: NO BOOT DEVICE
- 0x00000054: LM SERVER INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x00000055: DATA COHERENCY EXCEPTION
- 0x00000056: INSTRUCTION COHERENCY EXCEPTION
- 0x00000057: XNS INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x00000058: FTDISK INTERNAL ERROR
- 0x00000059: PINBALL FILE SYSTEM
- 0x0000005A: CRITICAL SERVICE FAILED
- 0x0000005B: SET ENV VAR FAILED
- 0x0000005C: HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED
- 0x0000005D: UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR
- 0x0000005E: OBJECT INITIALIZATION FAILED
- 0x0000005F: SECURITY INITIALIZATION FAILED