Blue screen of death

Hello. I have WinME and recently when I simply close the IE I get the blue
screen of death and saying: "error: OE-0177:BFF8E64B". Since I can not return
to windows I simply shotdown and restart. Scan disking gives the following:
"This drive's boot area contains importatn information that is damaged or
invalid. This can casue windows to reprot the drive's free space incrorrectly
or slowly. Scan disk repairs the boot area by recording the correct values in
this area." When I say repair I get the following : " A program (or windows
itself) saved information to your drive after the previous error was
detected. scandisk must restart so it can include this new information in the
scan for errors. This error, and any other errors that were previously
reported, but not corrected may be reported again." So. I get back to the
windows and wait for the next time around this happens.

I seem to be free of scumware, spam or what have you. At least so report the
Ad-aware, Spybot, spywareblaster, CWshredder, etc. Sorry about the lengthy
message. I do hope that someone might be able to shed some light on this
intriguing issue. Many thanks in advance

heirloom
Sat Dec 25 23:40:00 CST 2004

If this is a recent event, do you have a System Restore Point to a time just
before it started? There is a method to rebuild the MBR (Master Boot
Record), however, before you attempt this, try the restore point and wait
for an okay from one of the gurus......I don't want to put you on the wrong
path.

Rebuild Master Boot Record:

Bootup using your "Windows Startup Disk"
Select #1
Exit Help
At the DOS prompt,
type the following line,
and press <enter>

FDISK /MBR

Remove the floppy,
and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot.

This will rebuild your Master Boot Record (MBR).
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A guru should be along shortly......hang in there, this is a terrific NG and
I am sure you will get your problem resolved.
Heirloom, old and ain't no guru


"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1BAE719F-F420-480D-B758-DD7D20C7B863@microsoft.com...
> Hello. I have WinME and recently when I simply close the IE I get the blue
> screen of death and saying: "error: OE-0177:BFF8E64B". Since I can not
return
> to windows I simply shotdown and restart. Scan disking gives the
following:
> "This drive's boot area contains importatn information that is damaged or
> invalid. This can casue windows to reprot the drive's free space
incrorrectly
> or slowly. Scan disk repairs the boot area by recording the correct values
in
> this area." When I say repair I get the following : " A program (or
windows
> itself) saved information to your drive after the previous error was
> detected. scandisk must restart so it can include this new information in
the
> scan for errors. This error, and any other errors that were previously
> reported, but not corrected may be reported again." So. I get back to the
> windows and wait for the next time around this happens.
>
> I seem to be free of scumware, spam or what have you. At least so report
the
> Ad-aware, Spybot, spywareblaster, CWshredder, etc. Sorry about the
lengthy
> message. I do hope that someone might be able to shed some light on this
> intriguing issue. Many thanks in advance