Partition? Boot Problem (HP)
Feb 1, 2005
I have a hard drive that came out of an HP pavilion xt963 (mobo/bioschip failure) I am trying to install in another computer Compaq Presario. The drive itself is not wanting to boot but I'm unsure of the problem.
If I let it try to boot it goes to safe mode menu. If I choose Safe mode it starts to load and locks up on c:windowssystem32whatever... first it was agpsys.. (I no longer can remember the name). I disabled this in recovery console booting from xp cd. It locked on the next file. I disabled it again. Still locks on whatever the last file is before loading safe mode. If I try to load normally or last known good configuration then it locks and nothing ever happens.I tried using the HP restore cd's but they will not work. I can boot to an xp home cd. I don't want to reload for 2 reasons. #1 Won't I get the error that it cannot load from xp cd due to the HP restore feature? #2 I will, of course, lose all data...not that its worth anything right now... If I press F10 on boot to try to get to restore I get the message
couldn't open drive multi (0 disk(0)rdisk NTLDR couldn't open drive multi(0) disk(0) rdisk(0) partition (1)
drive is setup as follows:
_: EISA utilities 4511 mb (827 mb free)
C: partition 2 (HP_pavilion) NTFS 33643 mb
unpartitioned space 8 mb
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I reinstalled my OS several months ago, and decided that I might want a dual boot in the future. I already had an old, smaller drive in the machine that's labeled the c: drive.
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When I just checked disk management, I noticed that not only is boot.ini on the D: Dos partition, but so is ntldr along with the following Dos setup files:
ndetect.com
arcsetup.exe
arcldr.exe
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