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Jul 27, 2010My computer automatically ran a PC tune-up and froze the screen afterwards. I cannot reboot the system ever since.
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Oct 8, 2008I recently installed a new hard drive into a friends computer and installed XP Home.
I ran all the updates and service packs.
I left later that day and let him install all his applications.
I got a call tonight from him saying he really screwed up and doesn't know what to do.
I had to follow his thinking over the phone so I hope I get this all correct.
He had trouble loading the drivers for his HP printer. He would get an error saying that a C: empHP_WebRelease folder was missing. He did manage to figure out that for some reason when I installed XP it called the Boot drive "I" instead of "C"
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Feb 15, 2005On my first attempt to boot, the hard drive is not detecte On the second attempt, the bios always sees the hard drive and boot up is normal.I have tested the Seagate hard drive with the Seagate hard drive support tool and all is error free.This is consistent. I can't find anything in the bios where this would be switchable.
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Boot From Second Hard Drive - Available Options Were Off
Nov 28, 2006I have two HDs installed on my comp. The master (C drive) is running WinXP home edition. The slave (E drive) was taken from my old comp which ran under Win ME (which should still be installed on it). I need to boot up with ME as a "work around" to print some files using a RIP program that is not supported by XP.Is it possible to boot from the slave HD? I looked under the setup options accessed by hitting f12 key during start up, and the "E" drive did not show up on the list of drives. Floppy, Cd drives, and a USB external drive did show up. I also tried looking under a menu accessed by hitting the f2 key...and a second hard drive showed up in that menu, but the options I had available were "off" (the setting I found it set at) or "auto", I changed it to "auto" and tried to reboot but it said "no loader_"
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Sep 17, 2007I have a Compaq SR-1200NX system that came with a 40gb drive. It was too small for all my music and apps so I installed a second drive which I then started using for files.So Drive 1 was 40 gb and Drive 2 was 80GB..I was running out of space again so I used a drive cloner to move the 40 GB drive to a 200GB Drive.Disk Management shows different according to it Drive 0 is the 80gb drive and is assigned a letter of D and Drive 1 is the 200GB drive assigned a letter of C.Both C and D have a Windows directory off of and a Program Files but the Program Files on C has more entries than the one on D.
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Aug 3, 2005Manufacturers get preinstalled WindowsXP on their harddrives? How does one build a similar environment on a blank harddrive? I've looked everywhere for some discussion about this, but can't find anything useful. I've read about WinPE and Bart'sPE and so much more, but noone seems to have a summary of how one goes about initializing a hard drive to boot and start an install of WindowsXP.
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Jan 5, 2005I have tried replacing the power supply-no change.I've tried unhooking cd-rom, floppy, replace ram & everything remains unchanged.Bios never recognizes a hard drive. I've tried several known good hard drives and the original hard drive works in another machine. It starts POST & I get HP splash then back to NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND, It doesn't find the CD rom drive either. What might this be related to? I've replace hard drive cable, floppy cable. The only cable I haven't replaced it the cd-rom drive.
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Dell 4550 Won't Boot To New Hard Drive
May 23, 2010i have a dell deminsion 4550 i was given. it has a pentium 4 2. 4GHZ sounded like a good machine. nut it's not i wanted to put in a newer hard drive with xp pro just like the original and it won't boot. the original was 30GB the new is 40 (40 the max for the machine?) the origanal is from 2002 the new from 2005 both maxtor diamond max 3.5 series. there online support for sayed it wont work. i know i tried but this is wired becuse almost any other computer you can put in a hard drive and it will boot
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I decided to make my Windows OS drive E active so that I could boot directly to Windows boot instead of Grub. But, obviously, Grub still booted first. I made the mistake, then, by enabling BootMagic in the hopes I could get to Windows directly without going through Grub. Well BootMagic hid my C:Drive which was viewable simultaneously with E:drive (which contained XP OS, another setup mistake I made when partitioning...but still worked). As a result Grub is gone and I also cannot boot to XP or Linus, even after trying to activate C:drive or activating E:drive containing my XP OS. I'm pretty sure that XP recognizes C:drive as home, even though OS is on E. I have not yet used 'fixmbr' for fear of loosing data contained in C and E partitions. I've considered using spare hard drive as a new boot drive and access files from original hard drive, save them, and then start from scratch with XP....
Computer Wont Boot Up - Hard Drive Gone?
Sep 4, 2005I just got back from vacation and my computer wont boot up. When i turn it on, i get a black screen and it says "strike f1 for retry boot, f2 for setup utility" I am using a Dell Dimension 2400, which is only two years old. I pressed F8 to try going into safe mode and it says keyboard failure. I then tried reinstalling windows xp, while installing i got a bluce screen with a long message on it saying there was a problem with the setupdd.sys file.I dont know what else to do. Is the hard drive gone?
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Aug 11, 2005I've got an HP / Compaq notebook where the smart diags indicated a failing hard drive, HP shipped me a replacement drive under warranty and I removed the drive and used a couple of notebook hard drive adapters to hook them up as master and slave on the secondary channel of one of my desktops. I then used Ghost to clone the failing drive to the replacement since I really didn't want to have to reinstall all my applications again. The clone completed without any seeming problems however I haven't been able to get the new drive to boot up, the problem is that I just get a blank screen with a flashing cursor and no boot menu, end of story...
I happen to have a Win XP Pro full version CD and I am able to boot from the CD to the recovery console, I've tried the following: Chkdsk /R - Did find and fix some problem the first time around, but didn't find anything wrong on subsequent runs. Fixboot - ran with no problems but still no go. FixMbr - indicated "This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record", no matter how many times I've run this and it says it's rewritten the MBR successfully it still says the same thing. In-place upgrade - I've run an in-place upgrade twice and both times it completes and says the system will reboot and the installation will continue but it still gets stuck on the reboot. Following the two in-place upgrades I've rerun all of the previous steps and I still can't get it to boot, nor do I get any type of error message that indicates what the problem is.
Master Boot Record Hard Drive
Dec 14, 2006I have a hard drive from an old computer (Win 2000 Pro) that I wanted to piggy back on my new computer.Only thing is it wont recognize it since it shows it as a Master Boot Record drive.I even tried putting it in an external hard drive enclosure with a USB. System saw it and loaded it properly, but it is not available in Windows Explorer.Its just plain "not there"!
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Sep 2, 2009I did a new hard drive install. When the new HD was complete I thought I would copy the data from the old drive to the new.They both still had os installed They were both connected to the system at the same time.When I finished, I removed the old drive. The new drive wouldn't boot. "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". After recovery disk completed, the system booted fine. I could reboot from the shutdown option.
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May 11, 2007About a month ago I decided to get a much bigger hard drive (500GB) but theres no way I have time to reinstall everything so I decided to clone my existing hard drive, I tried acronis and the clone went superfast and put everything onto a single partition the full size of the new disk - when I tried to boot up with the disk, it didnt boot. It got to the pale blue screen that usually says 'welcome' but instead it had a small windows XP logo and that was it, it didnt go any further. I contacted support and they were no help so last night I tried another free software hdclone - it took about 6 hours but I actually managed to boot up from the new disk - but the new drive had a single partition the exact same size as the old one and the rest was unused space - no problem
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Nov 22, 2006I went home at lunch time and went to use my computer.The screen saver was on but not moving. I moved the mouse, still did nothing.I had to turn the computer off with the powerbutton.It is a HP Pavilion A1310N
I turned it back on and it gets to the HP Blue Screen. About 3 seconds after startup.Does nothing else.
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