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Kevin Reagan

I just upgraded from Win 98 to xp home. After
installation (which required a few manula restarts),
everything worked fine except that on boot up, the
message came across that the hard drive needed to be
checked for consistancy. The first several times I
skipped this step and went right on with the boot.
Everything worked fine...wireless, internet,
audio,..everything. Then I let the disk be checked for
consistancy....it found some files, about 4, that
it 'fixed' and then started to 'verify free disk
space'...it stalled at 94% complete and didn't go
farther. I shut down the computer, and restarted. It then
could not reboot...couldn't find the c drive. I tried
restarting with the Winxp disk in the cd drive, and
picked 'r' for repair. It said no hard drive was found.

In going through the reboot, it finds the secondary
master and slave (dvd and cd-rw) but not the
primary...the hard drive.

in going throught set up the bios finds and identifies
the hard drive as the primary master. both ides are
selected.
where do I go from here???? HELP
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Have you tried the Recovery Console? Boot with the XP CD and select the
option to Repair using the Recovery Console. If prompted fro an Admin
password just press the Enter Key. At the command prompt type the following
and press the Enter key after each command
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT

type EXIT to quit type Recovery Console and reboot. (Remove the XP CD)

As you say you were receiving errors about consistency prior to the problem
emerging. You also had some problems installing XP as you say you had to
manually restart a few times. You may have to have the drive tested by a
service or bite the bullet and get another drive. It is possible that your
hard drive has many bad sectors and can't start. It will still be seen in
the BIOS but data written to it may be damaged.
 
Thanks, Harry,
I think that the drive is bad. I swapped out an old
drive and it started up (in the old drive's OS). When I
get the new HD, I'll recover with the recovery cd that
came with the system and re-upgrade with XP. I have
registered and activated the XP...will I have trouble
when I do it on the new drive?

Kevin
-----Original Message-----
Have you tried the Recovery Console? Boot with the XP CD and select the
option to Repair using the Recovery Console. If prompted fro an Admin
password just press the Enter Key. At the command prompt type the following
and press the Enter key after each command
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT

type EXIT to quit type Recovery Console and reboot. (Remove the XP CD)

As you say you were receiving errors about consistency prior to the problem
emerging. You also had some problems installing XP as you say you had to
manually restart a few times. You may have to have the drive tested by a
service or bite the bullet and get another drive. It is possible that your
hard drive has many bad sectors and can't start. It will still be seen in
the BIOS but data written to it may be damaged.
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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I just upgraded from Win 98 to xp home. After
installation (which required a few manula restarts),
everything worked fine except that on boot up, the
message came across that the hard drive needed to be
checked for consistancy. The first several times I
skipped this step and went right on with the boot.
Everything worked fine...wireless, internet,
audio,..everything. Then I let the disk be checked for
consistancy....it found some files, about 4, that
it 'fixed' and then started to 'verify free disk
space'...it stalled at 94% complete and didn't go
farther. I shut down the computer, and restarted. It then
could not reboot...couldn't find the c drive. I tried
restarting with the Winxp disk in the cd drive, and
picked 'r' for repair. It said no hard drive was found.

In going through the reboot, it finds the secondary
master and slave (dvd and cd-rw) but not the
primary...the hard drive.

in going throught set up the bios finds and identifies
the hard drive as the primary master. both ides are
selected.
where do I go from here???? HELP
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Kevin swapping out a hard drive will not cause you problems with Activation
unless you had already made a number of other hardware changes. See Alex
Nichol's page for more info on the what, how and why of WPA
http://www.aumha.org/a/wpa.htm

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Thanks, Harry,
I think that the drive is bad. I swapped out an old
drive and it started up (in the old drive's OS). When I
get the new HD, I'll recover with the recovery cd that
came with the system and re-upgrade with XP. I have
registered and activated the XP...will I have trouble
when I do it on the new drive?

Kevin
-----Original Message-----
Have you tried the Recovery Console? Boot with the XP CD and select the
option to Repair using the Recovery Console. If prompted fro an Admin
password just press the Enter Key. At the command prompt type the following
and press the Enter key after each command
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT

type EXIT to quit type Recovery Console and reboot. (Remove the XP CD)

As you say you were receiving errors about consistency prior to the problem
emerging. You also had some problems installing XP as you say you had to
manually restart a few times. You may have to have the drive tested by a
service or bite the bullet and get another drive. It is possible that your
hard drive has many bad sectors and can't start. It will still be seen in
the BIOS but data written to it may be damaged.
--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I just upgraded from Win 98 to xp home. After
installation (which required a few manula restarts),
everything worked fine except that on boot up, the
message came across that the hard drive needed to be
checked for consistancy. The first several times I
skipped this step and went right on with the boot.
Everything worked fine...wireless, internet,
audio,..everything. Then I let the disk be checked for
consistancy....it found some files, about 4, that
it 'fixed' and then started to 'verify free disk
space'...it stalled at 94% complete and didn't go
farther. I shut down the computer, and restarted. It then
could not reboot...couldn't find the c drive. I tried
restarting with the Winxp disk in the cd drive, and
picked 'r' for repair. It said no hard drive was found.

In going through the reboot, it finds the secondary
master and slave (dvd and cd-rw) but not the
primary...the hard drive.

in going throught set up the bios finds and identifies
the hard drive as the primary master. both ides are
selected.
where do I go from here???? HELP
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