ntfs.sys and blue screen

This weekend did not start out any good.

 

After hibernating my Windows XP laptop it did not want to wake up again. It went right into the infamous blue screen of death.

 

Windows did not boot and I found no way to force Windows into doing a chkdsk /f. Even when I booted the recovery console from my XP CD I got a blue screen.

 

I turned up nothing when searching Google for anything of use.

 

In the end, I had to go to the Linux community to get help. The Linux-NFTS project got a tool called ntfsfix that do something to the filesystem. From their documentation:

ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows.

To run this tool on my laptop I found a GNU/Linux distro called Trinity Rescue Kit. This tool saved my day.