Can't Restart - whats wrong? harddrive?

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Im not sure if I made this clear.
When my original harddrive died (the 40 gig one) it was running XP
also.
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I missed that.

Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to enter the
Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator password, use <blank>.
It's not asking for the one you may have set during the XP Installation).

Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
Use this command to format the specified drive to the specified file system.
In the command syntax, /Q performs a quick format of the drive, drive is the
drive letter of the partition to format, and /FS:file-system specifies the
type of file system to use such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. If you do not
specify a file system, the existing file system format is used if it is
available.

Should I do this anyway?
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My thoery is to leave well enough alone. If you were running XP successfully
before...

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

If you look at the BIOS upgrades released for your board, they have been to
support the XP2200+ and then the XP2600+. I doubt you need either of them.
 
relic said:
I missed that.

Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to
enter the Recovery Console (if it asks for the Administrator
password, use <blank>. It's not asking for the one you may have set
during the XP Installation).
Use the Format command in there. (Don't use the /Q switch.)
*FORMAT*
format drive: /Q /FS:file-system
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^^^^
That doesn't come out too clear. "Format D: /FS:NTFS"
 
Try booting from the XP CD and take the first 'Repair' option to
^^^^
That doesn't come out too clear. "Format D: /FS:NTFS"
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What drive am I formatting? Why?
Originally I just did the C, but I did the D a little while ago using
Disk Management.

Im thinking of just deleting the partition and doing a fresh install of
XP.

There has only been two changes between my old computer and this one.
1. New harddrive drive. - perhaps its a bad drive?
Perhaps the "rebooting" information is stored on a bad sector of the
drive? So xp cannot access it so it does not know how to restart....?
Make sense?

2. New XP cd. - I lost my original CD, so for this install I used my
friends CD.
Which is an Original (in other words, very old) XP Professional (which
is what I have, so my code is valid) which means it does not have SP2
or even SP1.
Could something be wrong with the disc?
But I did not notice any error message during the install.
True, xp might not be able to handle big drives, but Im having problems
restarting which is the C drive, which is only about 35 gigs.

So Im Lost right now, and not sure what the problem could be.
This sucks.
 
Julie said:
Do you not understand the implication of the OP's statement, "BUT, I
partitioned the 320 into a 35 gig and whatever is left"?
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so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................
 
Lez said:
so me Julie YOU answer his question.....................
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In other words, you haven't been able to see the posts from relic which _do_
answer his question? Nor have you been able to figure out that his BIOS
doesn't need to be updated because he is able to partition _all_ of the
disk?

That is why you are called an idiot, idiot.
 
Julie said:
In other words, you haven't been able to see the posts from relic which
_do_ answer his question? Nor have you been able to figure out that his
BIOS doesn't need to be updated because he is able to partition _all_ of
the disk?

That is why you are called an idiot, idiot.


















ohhhh me Julie bad week is it.............
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Lez said:
ohhhh me Julie bad week is it.............
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That's quite a leap... from Julie's being very honest about you, all the way
to Julie having a bad week. Do you always attempt to blame your problems on
someone else?
 
Damian said:
That's quite a leap... from Julie's being very honest about you, all the
way to Julie having a bad week. Do you always attempt to blame your
problems on someone else?
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no probs here me old mucker........
 
Are you using version 1011 bios update?

I have the same M/B in a computer for my son. If you never upgraded the
bios, that is where I would start.

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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