Dell and iastor.sys problem
Hi All,
Advice / help needed.
Today November 28th 2008 I got the same BSOD on my Dell desk top and the same iastor.sys error messages reported above at least 2 years after Dell are aware of this problem. I spoke with Dell and they said that I have a faulty drive and they will replace it... but like everyone else it’s the data that’s important.
The system has 2 hard drives but I am not aware if they were set up as a raid or just 2 separate drives.
I will remove them and take the advice offered above about making a backup first.
A friend has suggested I download a Windows XP Live cd and apparently I can run windows from this cd and allow me access to the computer. And I should be able to replace the iastor.sys file.
What do you think is this a runner?
I am still not clear from reading the posts here and elsewhere if the problem is the iastor.sys file or the hard drive is gone.
Any help or advice would greatly relieve the big headache I have just now.
Thanking you
DeDanan.
Never so happy to see my cluttered desktop!
Hi All,
Good news, today at boot up the system started to do a check disk. Before it just went to BSOD with the IASTOR.SYS error message. It found some problems and continued on to start windows normally! NO BSOD. Allowing me to backup all that I need and make a disk image.
The system that I have is Raid 0 which is just sharing everything over two hard drives. If I remove any one of the drives the system will not boot as the system files also seem to be across both drives.
The drive is a little noisy and will have to be replaced as I cannot trust it now. I have not seen the IASTOR.sys message and don’t want to see it again.
Never so happy to see my cluttered desktop! Thanks to the support and information I found on this web site.
Thanks again
DeDanan