This can't be the hard drive....

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ErickWhite

Hello all. I will start from the beginning.

I previously had a dual boot of win XP pro & Home Edition on m
HD.One day my comp was on idle and no one was using it when it all o
a sudden restarted on it's own and then came to the dual-boot option
then it was all of a sudde

Windows XP Home Editio
Windows XP Home Editio

Instead of

Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home Editio

So I thought maybe the Hard drive is messed up, so I bought anothe
hard drive to install windows on it. When I install the brand ne
hard drive, I come to the "Format Drive" in otder t
install windows on a parition and it cannot complete the process, i
tells me the disk may be damaged and to check SCSI or something t
see if it is off. One some occasions it will format the parition wit
FAT32 file system, but then it says "COMputer has worke
maintenance and will restart in 15 secs" And it does so, then
will get error when I reture to the scree

Oh and by the way, same thing happens with another brand new har
drive. IM lost! Help.

Thank you for your tim

SPECS:
Abit IC7-G Mob
Intel P4 2.6Ghz
1 GB corsair RA
80 GB Western Digital HD SAT
 
ErickWhite said:
Hello all. I will start from the beginning. O

I previously had a dual boot of win XP pro & Home Edition on my
HD.One day my comp was on idle and no one was using it when it all of
a sudden restarted on it's own and then came to the dual-boot option,
then it was all of a sudden

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Home Edition

Instead of

Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home Edition

So I thought maybe the Hard drive is messed up, so I bought another
hard drive to install windows on it. When I install the brand new
hard drive, I come to the "Format Drive" in otder to
install windows on a parition and it cannot complete the process, it
tells me the disk may be damaged and to check SCSI or something to
see if it is off. One some occasions it will format the parition with
FAT32 file system, but then it says "COMputer has worked
maintenance and will restart in 15 secs" And it does so, then I
will get error when I reture to the screen

Oh and by the way, same thing happens with another brand new hard
drive. IM lost! Help..


Thank you for your time


SPECS:
Abit IC7-G Mobo
Intel P4 2.6Ghz
1 GB corsair RAM
80 GB Western Digital HD SATA
Click to expand...

Defective mobo? Changed the IDE cable?
Tried a PCI IDE controller?
 
ErickWhite said:
Hello all. I will start from the beginning. O

I previously had a dual boot of win XP pro & Home Edition on my
HD.One day my comp was on idle and no one was using it when it all of
a sudden restarted on it's own and then came to the dual-boot option,
then it was all of a sudden

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Home Edition

Instead of

Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home Edition

So I thought maybe the Hard drive is messed up, so I bought another
hard drive to install windows on it. When I install the brand new
hard drive, I come to the "Format Drive" in otder to
install windows on a parition and it cannot complete the process, it
tells me the disk may be damaged and to check SCSI or something to
see if it is off. One some occasions it will format the parition with
FAT32 file system, but then it says "COMputer has worked
maintenance and will restart in 15 secs" And it does so, then I
will get error when I reture to the screen

Oh and by the way, same thing happens with another brand new hard
drive. IM lost! Help..


Thank you for your time


SPECS:
Abit IC7-G Mobo
Intel P4 2.6Ghz
1 GB corsair RAM
80 GB Western Digital HD SATA
Click to expand...

Bad RAM can cause those symptoms. -Dave
 
|Hello all. I will start from the beginning. O
|
|I previously had a dual boot of win XP pro & Home Edition on my
|HD.One day my comp was on idle and no one was using it when it all of
|a sudden restarted on it's own and then came to the dual-boot option,
|then it was all of a sudden
|
|Windows XP Home Edition
|Windows XP Home Edition
|
|Instead of
|
|Windows XP Pro
|Windows XP Home Edition
|
|So I thought maybe the Hard drive is messed up, so I bought another
|hard drive to install windows on it. When I install the brand new
|hard drive, I come to the "Format Drive" in otder to
|install windows on a parition and it cannot complete the process, it
|tells me the disk may be damaged and to check SCSI or something to
|see if it is off. One some occasions it will format the parition with
|FAT32 file system, but then it says "COMputer has worked
|maintenance and will restart in 15 secs" And it does so, then I
|will get error when I reture to the screen
|
|Oh and by the way, same thing happens with another brand new hard
|drive. IM lost! Help..
|
|
|Thank you for your time
|
|
|SPECS:
|Abit IC7-G Mobo
|Intel P4 2.6Ghz
|1 GB corsair RAM
|80 GB Western Digital HD SATA

Does the computer do this if ONLY the new hdd is installed? Did you
install SATA drivers when prompted during the XP install?
 
|Im not sure what ya mean by SATA drivers?

I was referring to the install routine. Early in the install there is
a point where you are asked to press f6 and insert floppy to install
SATA, SCSI, RAID, etc.
Some boards require SATA drivers to access the drive, some do not.
Read your motherboard manual.
 
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