Unable To Locate Hard Drive While Installing Repairing OS
Aug 13, 2005
I need to do an XP repair install on my Dell Dimension 8400 to fix several programs that no longer work (Update being the biggest problem). I had used this Forum a couple of months ago and doing the repair install was the recommended solution. I have a copy of the michaelstevenstech.com directions so I know what to do. Unfortunately, when I try to launch the "to setup Windows XP, press enter" step, the program comes back with an error message saying the hard drive is not found.
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Jun 10, 2006
I wasn't sure where to post this, but I tried to run one of my games today, and I got a pop-up saying that:
Frozen Throne was unable to locate your CD-ROM drive.Please make sure your Frozen Throne disc is in your CD-ROM drive, then click on 'Retry'.I have never gotten this error before, so I right clicked on My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager. Then under DVD/CD ROM drives is has: Next to these names there is an icon which has an exclamation point. I right clicked on ASUS CD-S480/A5 , then properties and the device status says: Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41).I am not sure what this exactly means, but I cannot load any of my games.
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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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Mar 5, 2007
Had a major crash and now can not install windows on the Dell pc as it can not see the hard drives anymore.
Installed a brand new hard drive and still no luck just says can not locate a hard drive to install windows on, done a check in the bios on the hard drive and it says it's fine but can not see it on the fresh install.
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Nov 22, 2009
I have just bought and installed (to the point of completing initialization under Disk Management) a new 1 TB hard drive. Originally, I was planning to use it solely for data storage.However, I am thinking of installing Windows XP Pro and all the programs I currently use on it, thereby making it the new OS and programs drive, while using the original 120 GB HD as a data/backup drive.I think the main appeal of doing this, for me, is that it also presents an opportunity to reinstall Windows on a machine which hasn't had this done for more than three years, and which currently seems to take at least five minutes to boot to a "usable" state, despite having a reasonably high spec for its age (it was bought in 2001, but as a result of the upgrade
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Feb 3, 2008
not being computer literate , i am having a problem with a new hard drive . i took out the old one . i have the windows disc and product codes , but i can't get it to boot to start the windows installation. i have done it on another computer , and the disc begins installing windows on start up. i have tried starting the computer with the disc in place , and without it . obviously , i must be missing something to get it started . the disc is brand new .
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Sep 11, 2005
I am buying a new PC and was wodering what I have to do to install my existing hard drive in to my new computer. I was told the new install of XP will have problems with the old hard drive.
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Dec 21, 2008
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop computer that I want to install a 2nd hdd. My sister gave me her computer (which is the same exact as mine). Her's was hit by lightening, she thinks. The motherboard was fried. I'm wanting to use her 40gb hd as a 2nd hdd in my computer.My question is: Will I have to do a clean install on her hdd? I don't want to do anything that would damage my good drive.If I install her drive in my computer and make it a slave in the bios, will that be all I have to do?
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Jul 18, 2005
I been haveing trouble installing xp pro on my hard drive. I am able to get through the windows install, computer reboots then starts the process all over again starting from the blue screen.I've tried setting the cdrom as the first bootable drive but this does not do the trick.my pins are correct on my 160 gig drive. I don't know what else to do.
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Aug 3, 2007
basically I need to know how to make a pc boot from the HD and install XP by copying the XP CD to the HD. Details & reason below:I've formatted the hard drive on a a friends emachine (by putting the HD into my machine) due to mess with viruses etc.Put HD back into e machine and tried to install XP from an OEM XP CD (genuine windows) - it boots and starts install, copying files to the hard drive fine but when it reboots it doesn't continue the install, but just goes back to the start, wanting to copy the files again.So what I'm going to do is put the HD back in my machine, copy the XP CD to a partition on the HD and then put it back in the machine, boot from HD and install XP all from HD. Question is- how do I get it to boot from the hard drive and start the install?I don't have a floppy boot disk or a floppy drive on my machine to make floppy boot disk. I can set the machine to boot from the HD 1st, that's no problem, just don't know how to set up the HD to let it boot from that so I can run the windows install which will be on the partition on the HD.
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May 5, 2006
before I install the new hard drive making this new drive the boot drive which will be replacing my existing "C" drive how I by to do this, my system is Compaq Presario with Windows XP Home Edition and has Drive "C" with 20GB, Drive "D" (which is the SYSTEM SAVE DRIVE) with 18GB, Slave Drive "G" with 98GB and I made a partition on this drive which is Drive "H" with 15GB, the new drive that I want to install is a Seagate with 120 GB.
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Dec 22, 2007
My error is BSOD "Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated."it tells me to run chkdsk /f, but then I try that switch and it tells me that it is an invalid switch.
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Jan 10, 2006
A few days ago my hard drive crapped the bed so I bought a new one. I was wondering if I should do something different than what I was gonna do. I have the original Dell Windows XP SP1 cd that came with my Dell computer. I am going to install it on my new hard drive. After I do this should I go to www.microsoft.com and download the SP2 or should I do something different altogether? I just wanna make sure I have all the windows security updates on the new hard drive.
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Jul 12, 2005
What must be done to a new hard drive and which files must be on the Hard drive before Win XP can be installed?
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Feb 23, 2006
Hi Folks, I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 running Windows XP Pro with 512MB memory. I currently have a 40GB hard drive in there. I want to know if it can handle a 250GB hard drive. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm considering the Western Digital Hard Drive.
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Jun 30, 2009
I had to install a new hard drive on my laptop. It has windows xp. That installed ok and now I can't get my wireless to work. It says "No active network adapters". It is not plugged into the ethernet, my home computer is. I usually just get on my laptop in another room with the wireless that is built into the computer.
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Jul 4, 2009
After I boot the system and go to the desktop, I get the following message: "Unable to locate language DLL - languagesEnglish.dll"
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Jun 9, 2007
I have bought a web cam and it uses usb but when I load on the program I get this message Setup is unable to locate working USB port on this system. Require working USB port to continue installation. I have gone to the control panel, Hardware and then to Device manager. When I look in there for the Universal Serial Bus controllers there is nothing there even though I have 2 USB ports on the computer and where going approx 2 yrs ago when I had my old web cam. If you are able to help can you please let me know what I need to do to locate what I need to get it going.
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Dec 14, 2008
My Maxtor External Drive became corrupted and I needed to re-format the drive. Unfortunately, while Working in Windows XP I accidentally deleted the partition and the drive. Now I can't get Windows XP to recognize the Maxtor Drive. I tried re-booting the PC and plugging in the Maxtor USB Cable, but this did not work. The Maxtor Drive was my H: Drive. Can get Windows to recognize my Maxtor Drive? When I deleted the drive I was working in the "Computer Management" Screen. I navigated to this screen through the following path: Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management.
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Jul 16, 2008
well this is my first computer i built so i'm a little inexpierianced but here's the problem i powered on my computer and put in the xp disc i boot it up from the disc and so the disc is installing xp it says windows is starting up for about 15 seconds the screen goes black and i get the bsod. it talks about my i get the error code : stop: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) i've found what these mean but not wha
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Sep 24, 2007
When trying to install Win XP SP2 there was always a message telling me that it coudn't detect the HDD (Checked Bios, it is detecting everything: Processor, Ram, DVD units and HDD) Well, after several times trying, i decided to put the HDD on my nephew's computer and install Win XP w/o the drivers. Back to my system, connected the HDD and turn it on, but when the XP logo appears, the system reboots, and it happened every time i tried it.
Having a copy of Vista (30 days sample) i decided to install it, and it was installed w/o problems, everything was perfect.So (at last) my cuestion is ...Can i install Win XP on this system? or,there is a feature on P35 that only accept Vista?, orthere is something that i forgot to do? I want XP and not Vista (I will need to buy Vista and I dont have $$$, yet)
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Jun 23, 2005
I have a ton of background pictures that I really like, but I cannot seem to locate them. I searched my computer for the file names, but nothing comes up.
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Aug 29, 2005
When attempting to open a JPEG in Windows picture and Fax viewer I get an error that the program is unable to locate gdiplus.dll, recommends reinstalling the application. After searching the PC I can see that it is installed 4 times in various locations.I also get this error when attempting to launch windows media player.
Recently I have been performing a clean up of my PC (With guidance of TSG Security Forum) due to spyware infections. Part of this included running Ewido security suite. I noticed that there is a file at location c:ewidogdiplus.dll.
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Oct 5, 2009
I'm having some problems with my XP pro Dell computer. Recently my brother downloaded some songs off of Limewire ( I know it's really bad). I have AVG free installed and it detected multiple viruses as mshypiw.dll I prompted to remove them, and it warned my system may become unstable or crash, I still clicked to remove them and after a re-boot my computer opened up to an error.winlogon.exe - Unable To Locate Component.This application failed to start because mshypiw.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.After I click OK it gives me the same error over and over again for different .exe files. Ex: lsass.exe, Services.exe.It Then opens the logon to windows screen and I can login as normal. Then it gives me many more of the same errors, which if I enter through all of them, I can eventually get to the desktop. Then, if I try to run any program I get more of this same error, depending on which program I try to open, some will open and some will not.
I have googled for this error for hours on end and can't find an answer. I did find this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319114. Which seams to relate to my problem but the file framedyn.dll is not in my dllcache folder and I cannot get to my System setteing because of this error.
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Mar 23, 2007
I recently downloaded something but the file didn't save to the usual place. Instead, the file has been saved to a place on my PC which I am finding impossible to locate (the downloading was successfully completed after a short while by-the-way) According to the program I used to download the file it has been saved to...C:Documents and SettingsuserLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5 (I'm not sure why the file was saved here!) When I go to C:Documents and Settings I am unable to find the 'User' folder and so cannot goto (or see) the other folders where this file has been saved. The only folder I can see in Documents and Settings is 'All Users'.
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Jul 11, 2005
I really don't know how to start this so I will give you some of the symptoms
1. When I run Panda online scan it hangs on file 319 and will not go any further
2. When I run Spybot at the end I get "Error during check! Xuron55 (Datei C:Windowswin.ini kann nicht geoffnet werden. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
3. When I search for a file in Regedit it searches forever
4. In one of my log files (C:WindowsSystem32WBEMLogs) it says "Shell name Explorer.exe in registry not found in process list Unable to locate Shell process. Impersonation failed.
5. In my event viewer I am getting alot of "The Shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restartedI am running XP Home Edition and this has been going on for a couple of weeks. I run Panda Online Scan, Adaware, and Spybot weekly and because I have had a couple of viruses in the past I run Stinger pretty often also.
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Apr 20, 2010
I have inherited an image (for one of our products) that I can't get the "Runas" process to work.XP, SP3, latest / greatest patches;I have confirmed that I have the Secondary Logon service running; This is what my "run as" is trying to do: We sell kiosk-like systems for hospitals. We ship our systems to boot to a logon screen so our field employees can configure the system and network settings. Once they log out and log back in with the "Customer" account, I want to fire off a startup script that writes sets the registry to auto-logon with that customer account & password.So I wrote three scripts - one that launches my little "Runas" script, the "Runas" script it self, and a final one to clean up the initial "launch" script from the "startup" folder.The script will launch and call my "Runas" Script - and I *know* that the reg import bit works fine if I do it manually, but it hangs up with a "unable to locate runas process".
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May 6, 2007
WebWorks.exe -Unable to Locate Components Everytime I start my computer this error box comes up Inside the message is 'wwwcore.dll reinstall I don't have clue what needs to be reinstalled.. ?? how do I find out or make the error message go away
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Aug 17, 2006
im have a windows xp computer and i had a username called administrator and then i made a new account for my friend to use wich deleted my administator account but the thing is all my this form that account are still there but when i go to my documents and click administrator it says access denied so there must still be that account there i just dont see it at the welcome screen to log on to that account so could anyone help me please
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Nov 25, 2009
Have a Windows XP Home Edition. Whenever I boot, get following: "Icu.exe - Unable to Locate Component...This application has failed to start because WNIAPI.dll was not foumd. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Have no idea what the problem is, nor how to resolve it, nor -if insignificant, how to get rid of the message. Would dearly appreciate any help and explanations; I'm a true novice.
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Sep 12, 2008
computer keeps giving me this error message and also nphmon06.exe unable to locate component. It won't recognize my hp PSC 2350 all in one printer all of a sudden and I can't get my printer to work because of this. Can someone please tell me how I can remedy this situation? I already tried deleting the download for the printer twice and downloaded it again but I still keep getting this error message. I am at my wits end and need to use my printer.
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