NTFS.SYS Error

message from =?Utf-8?B?SmVycnk=?= on 31 May 2004
Ok while working on my nephew's computer get the following

Stop: 0X00000024 (0X001902F8, 0XF7CB2704, 0XF7CB2404, 0XF74C0411)
ntfs.sys - Address F74C0411 base at F7452000, DateStamp 3b7dc5do

and the system reboots. Loaded the windows XP CD and booted from the CD, went to Recovery Console and get the same error message.

Tried booting from floppy, but can't access drive (invalid drive specification)

Took the hard drive out of his system and made it a secondary IDE slave on my computer, get basically the same error (different addresses, same DateStamp).

Figure the problem is a bad/corrupted ntfs.sys file on his hard drive. Is there a way for me to access this drive without having to reformat it?
 

Archived message: NTFS.SYS Error (Microsoft Win XP)
 
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