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The "installed" 80GB HD has had it's boot sector scrambled and will no longer boot up. I installed a second 20GB HD from a previous HP computer that I now have up and running with Win XP Home. I want to reformat the 80GB HD and would like to temporarily store data from this drive onto the 20GB HD. The main concern I have is that the larger drive is formated in NTSF and the smaller in FAT32.
Questions:
#1 Can I store the NTSF data on the FAT32 drive just to keep it protected with only the intent to transfer it back to the 80GB HD after reformating?
I just built a new PC for my dad and was installing XP home and it was partially done copying the files to the hard drive, then it got an error saying the ntsf.sys file was messed up and it shut down windows to prevent damage to the system. Then I rebooted thinking it would want to reinstall an OS, but it just loads to the first screen where it displays your video card type and it says
Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
floppy not found!
Checking for CD_ROM...
CD-ROM found.
Reading file "P4P800SE.ROM".
Start Erase...
Start Program...
Flash Failed!
I couldn't get to the CMOS settings during the power on, so I manually reset them by taking out the on-board battery and switching the jumper on the mobo to reset them then replacing the jumper to its normal spot and put the battery back. After doing this, when i boot up it still says Bad BIOS checksum. And i have no idea what to do. I'm guessing part of the problem is that windows is partially installed.
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To test and see if it was the RAM, I pulled out the working RAM and replaced it with the other one. I booted up and immediately got BSOD with different error message--the 0x00000024 one. It would restart, start me on the screen saying it encountered an error and which mode did I want to start in. No matter what I selected, I would get the bsod error. I put in the 'good' RAM. No change. I put in the other RAM so now both were in. No change. I put in the Windows XP disk and selected repair. It is now running chkdsk /r. did putting in the 'bad' RAM cause the disk error? It's a little late now to pull out the second RAM, but I'm worried that I'll still end up with an issue because I have both in there. After running this, should I run it again with the 'good' RAM only? or is there a different issue entirely going on that I should check?
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