Pro Boot After HD Replace - Indicated Failing Hard Drive
Aug 11, 2005
I'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.
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Aug 2, 2005
I have a hardrive( Maxtor 6Y200P0) wich have got corrupted and bad segments. (this seme to be a common problem with Maxtor drives) Im almmost sure this drive have psychical damaged clusters, cause i have tested alot & alots of tools that should fix this has failing in repairing this damaged clusters and segments. this includes Maxtor official PoweMax v 1.21, wich fails to complete the surface test. i have got an Error Diagnostic Code=de676679. a code with a 8 numeral should indicate that a Maxtor Drive drive is broken,and is in need of replacement. thats all i know where should i send this code for a real analyz?, cant find anything on Maxtor Website, Another question, there is allso an option to do a Low ore High level formatation of the drive. I have heard that this could fix corrupted segments, If so,this must only be possible on logical damaged hardrives, not psycial damaged drives right? i have waiting with reformatation cause im unsure what type damage the drive have, and this is my last alternative to do.? should i do a low/high level formatation anyway?
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Aug 24, 2008
In addition to my other posting here, I want to ask you professionals, if it is possible to mirror my existing hard drive onto a much larger hard drive?My partition C became way too small over the years, the Windows XP files have blown up their size. Partition D (which contains all installed programs) is still fine. But I was never able to use software like "Partition Magic" to adjust the space between these two partitions.So I might just have to buy a new hard drive. But I want - I even HAVE - to keep the installed XP the way it is now. Lots of software installed. So I wonder, if there is any way just to "mirror" the existing version of XP onto a new hard drive, and then just to exchange the old hard drive with the new one?
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Mar 8, 2006
I have a dual boot system (2 hard drives) booting Suse and XP and boot up through Suse's built in boot manager which gives me the option of booting to Windows or Linux. But since I barely ever use Linux I want to delete it off the 2nd drive so I can use it for a storage drive, so I'm wondering how to replace the Windows Master Boot Record so I can just boot into my XP drive. I'm scared that once I delete/reformat the contents of the 2nd hard drive (I'll probably use Partition Magic to do this through my XP drive) that I won't be able to boot XP up anymore. So before I do anything I want to just be able to boot into XP and bypass the linux drive before I delete it to make sure everything is ok.
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Jan 11, 2009
I need to replace my internal hard drive on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I do not want to copy anything from it. I bought the new hard drive, but I am not sure how or what order to install everything. I have the 'Reinstallation CD MS Win XP Home' from Dell, SP2 & SP3, and the Drivers & Utilities cd 'for reinstalling dell inspiron system software'. Since these are all 'reinstallation' cds, can I use these? Is there a website or other link that you can point me to that may have step by step instructions/pictures of this entire process? I am not doing an actual reinstall, but that's what the cds say. I am installing a NEW hard drive. I'm pretty sure I can get the actual HD in the laptop. It's just a matter of what to do next to get Windows XP on it.
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Oct 8, 2008
I 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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May 23, 2007
I am running Windows XP (SP2) on an eMachines T2080 desktop. All Windows security patches and other OS updates are current. McAfee virus scan is run weekly, as is SpyBot S&D and AVG/Ewido. I am running a GeForce FX 5200 graphics card with up-to-date drivers
The problem is, while using this computer, i had a hung-up process that was slowing things down. After doing CNTL-ALT-DEL to see the process list, i accidentally shut down the explorer process, thinking it was a hung-up internet explorer. Naturally, the computer shut down, but ever since, it does not seem to want to boot appropriately. From a cold power-up, it will go through the "Windows" logo screen with the blue scrolling bar for about 10 seconds, then the screen goes black and stays black for about a minute. Rather than coming to the light blue screen where the user-id's live, the system instantaneously flashes a "blue screen" (with some white characters on the screen), however, it's so fast that I can't read it, nor can I get a screen shot of it. Once that blue screen flashes, it goes back and tries to boot again, only it gives me the options of safe mode, start windows normally, start from last known good configuration, etc. I can boot up just fine in safe mode, but the blue screen phenomenon happens for all the other options. I have tried a system restore to a previous day, and that doesn't work either.
any ideas on how to proceed, short of an OS reinstall / repair. I have seen some suggestions for CMOS battery replacement,I can copy any utility files I need just fine while in safe mode, but I'd like to try and do additional troubleshooting
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Sep 13, 2005
I installed Windows XP Pro over my Windows XP home a few days ago. My Windows XP Pro seemed to be working fine except it didn't feel or acknowledge my built in speakers and various other hardware. My dad said this might stem from the fact that the Windows I have (being from 2001) is older than my laptop. He suggested I DL the service pack onto on desktop computer, put it on a disk and open it on my laptop and install. I did that, and everything seemed to go fine until I restarted my PC as I usually do when I install new software. My laptop told there had a been a error that Windows was failing to boot properly due to some failed installation of software or failed hardware installation. It had a few options like "start with the last known configuration of windows that worked on your computer" so I did that. And I tried the other options too. But after a few screens of the usual booting up stuff my laptop just goes to a black screen and I can't get away from it. Windows Support won't help me so I'm asking you guys.
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Jun 22, 2008
I installed XP x64 (Yes, I know, that was a mistake) on my machine a while ago and was tired of having to put up with all the incompatibility issues that had been arising, whether it was not having iTunes work properly to even some of my favorite software just not loading and prompting me with error messages.
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Jul 23, 2009
I copied/cloned my failing C: to a drive on USB. C: drive has now failed and I need the copy to become bootable. Why can't this question be a simple answer.
What happened to fdisk utilities?
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Jan 12, 2006
This is really a question more than a problem. I'm running a PC with 2 HDs. I am changing the boot drive C: for a larger disk. Now ordinarily I would use a backup program like Ghost or whatever. Now my situation is slightly different in that most of my startup programs are installed on my second HD E:, the C: drive being the boot drive with XP installed.
What my intention is. Is to take out drive E: Then replace that with my new drive. Then I was going to boot in Safe Mode and use the Windows Files & Transfer wizard to copy the C: drive to The new drive. The last thing to do then is swap the C: with the newly installed drive and replace the original E: drive. I hope that all makes sense.
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Aug 13, 2005
I dislike my cd-rom drive(Dynex). Is there any reason why I can't replace it, as my reader, with a Sony cd-r/rw drive? I have it as a spare.
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Sep 18, 2006
A friend of mine's computer has three hard drives. The one designated as her C drive is an 8gb thing. She has a 40gb drive along with another 30gb one. In her cmos setup I couldn't get it to boot with a drive besides that which was designated C So can I just copy and paste all the stuff in her C drive into another drive but how would I get windows to boot off of that drive instead??? She has XP home
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Oct 14, 2006
The C drive is used strictly for WinXP OS and applications, of which there are many and they are all very large. While I'm fully expecting this to be a tedious task, I would welcome any advice on how the process can be made less tedious and very safe. Note that the C drive is an 18 GB SCSI-3 supported by an Adaptec U-160 SCSI adapter, which has performed reliably and is very speedy.
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Sep 7, 2007
I just bought a new hard drive today (120 GB Fujistsu) for my laptop computer. I installed it, and I am now trying to boot Windows XP onto it with the CD-ROM. But for some reason, the CD is not booting up and my computer keeps saying "Operating System Not Found." I tried changing the boot order from the hard drive to the CD-Drive, but that didn't help either.
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Sep 26, 2005
I need to reinstall the OS on the hard drive, but I have to try and get some files off of it first or can I install new OS over the old one without a loss of my files?
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Feb 15, 2005
On 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.
Boot up order is:1. DVD drive 2. Floppy drive 3. Hard drive Sony Vaio PCV-RZ22G.Windows XP Home. P4-2.4 1 gig ram.
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Nov 28, 2006
I 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, 2007
I 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, 2005
Manufacturers 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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Feb 22, 2007
Anyone know how to automatically boot from the hard drive? Has any one seen this before? I have been in the BIOS, set the hdd as the first device to boot from.I have looked through the BIOS but I can't find anything that jumps out as different or pertaining to this Boot Message.I looked at the boot.ini file, nothing there.I am running Win2k Pro.I don't know where else to look to disable this boot interaction..
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Dec 28, 2008
I recently purchased a used IBM Thinkpad r31 2656 with Windows XP Pro Edition installed. I do not have the system CD.This machine came with a 20 GB hard drive and I wanted to upgrade to a larger 160 GB drive. I purchased a Western Digital Scorpio EIDE drive, formatted it using Disk Management into 2 partitions, E: (140 GB) and F: (approx 20 GB) and copied the contents of the original 20GB drive using Norton Ghost onto partition E: without incident.I removed the old drive and replaced it with the new one. Upon startup, I get the IBM Thinkpad screen with the BIOS F1 and F12 messages at the bottom of the screen, and then the screen goes black with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. This is as far as it goes.
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May 15, 2007
have tried 1.6ghz 512mb xp pro sp2 and 1.2ghz 512mb memory 256mb graphics memory xp home sp2 drive is 250gb maxtor. the situation is if i have it in my external HDD enclosure it assigns a drive letter but i get " the device is not ready" error if i attempt to access it and if i put in my main computer as a slave drive it is detected during boot but not in windows.can anyone help me i tried deleteing the driver and having windows redetect but no luck.it might be unrelated but delayed write failure keep happening on g:/$mft and g:/$bmp.
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Aug 16, 2008
My laptop, which was my dad's old office laptop, recently crashed. One day when I turned it on, a blue screen popped up and said there were a corrupt file or something. So I decided to reformat using a Windows XP cd, and for some reason it kept getting stuck on 91%, so I just left it on and it eventually hit 100% and completed.After everything was done, I turned it back and after the first Dell Screen bootup, the screen goes blank for 30 seconds, then a a line of white vertical lines show up at the bottom, looking at though something is loading, and it eventually finishes after a minute or two.Next the XP Bootup Screen comes up, and begins to load, but then the screen goes blank again.
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Dec 12, 2008
Suddenly yesterday, my laptop would not boot into Windows.. runs windows xp normally.It would also not boot into safe mode.I took the hard drive out and took it to a colleagues office to get the data off with an external hd connector.He advised that my partition table had been damaged, and the data was not accessible via normal means.Wants to charge $150.00 to get the data off. At this stage, I am wanting to make sure I get my data back, so I authorized this but I am wondering, if anyone can speak to what might have caused this to happen.I do not remember installing any programs or doing anything subject prior to this occurring..
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Nov 16, 2006
I have a Hewlet packard computer here, the mother board is a n1996, th eoperating system is ME. The computer justwill not boot at all., it gets to the ME Logo and th escreene just goes black. I can satrt it in safe mode, but i cannot restore it to an earlier date, no mater which date i choose, i just get the mnessage can not restore. I want to, reformat and install XP home, but the CD ROM does not show in my computer and it does not see the disk when i put it in. Also i tried to boot from a Woindows 98boot disk, and themn i get the message non system disk, replace and press any leter to continue.
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Jan 5, 2005
I 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.
The hard drive works as a slave in another computer. I am running virus scan and spyware on. But, why won't it work in the other computer? I'm thinking its somehow related to the bios and the fact that it cannot see the drive in the bios. I don't find anywhere in this particular bios where I can try to auto recognize the drives
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May 23, 2010
i 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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Sep 8, 2008
I am having a problem similar to this poster problem http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...cond-boot.html I made a mistake editing my second hard drive XP registry. Now it won't boot. My other hard drive will still boot (what I'm writing from) I have a backup of the registry I made in regedit.exe and I download regcool and erunt. Is there a way I can restore me second hard drives registry from another bootable hard drive?
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Jul 27, 2010
My computer automatically ran a PC tune-up and froze the screen afterwards. I cannot reboot the system ever since.
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Jul 7, 2005
My computer has been sporadically crashing to blue screens due to an incompatible driver or drivers, so I tried removing two questionable drivers from the driver folder. It is clearly because I removed these drivers that the computer won't boot. So in order to fix the device driver problem I'll first have to get the operating system running, which means I must put the drivers back in place (I backed them up on the hard drive).So here comes my real question (disregarding compatibility issues which originally led to this boot problem): How can I access those drivers I backed up on the hard drive and put them back in the driver folder without booting up Windows XP? Does a boot disc have the utilities to do this? Is there some way of doing this through the BIOS? Is there an operating system or something that I can run off of a floppy disc or compact disc (which won't require any installation) that I can use to move these files? Maybe at a later date I'll create a thread addressing the driver incompatibility issue that I have, but, for now, I'm only concerned with putting those drivers back in their place so I can get to the next step.
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