Windows XP does not boot, and can't recognize drive's format

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My computer was running fine last night. I turned it on this morning and CheckDisk ran at boot. It does this once a week I think. Anyways, it found some problems, repaired them, rebooted, and now the second the monitor fades to that first Windows XP screen, with the moving blue status bar and the black background, it reboots. It immediately reboots. I can't boot in Safe Mode either. It fills the screen with a list of partion(1) stuff and then at the end, it reboots again

I booted from the Windows XP CD. In repair mode, on the command line, it can't list the contents of my C drive. It just doesn't do it and says that the command dir cannot be performed. It can't upgrade Windows XP since it wants to format my drive since it thinks that the drive is unformated

I am using a relatively new 80 GB Western Digital drive, 7200 RPM, with 8 MB cache. I ran the Western Digital boot disk diagnostic tool. The Quick Test and full media scan come up clear. If I boot into DOS, DOS simply does not see my C drive

What do I do

Thank you

-Kazem Edmond
 
Sounds like your IDE cable is poorly seated or bad (recheck/reseat IDE and HD power cables)
If that doesn't solve it well....
How old is your mother board & power supply
HTH

: Hello.
: My computer was running fine last night. I turned it on this morning and CheckDisk ran at boot. It does this once a week I
think. Anyways, it found some problems, repaired them, rebooted, and now the second the monitor fades to that first Windows XP
screen, with the moving blue status bar and the black background, it reboots. It immediately reboots. I can't boot in Safe Mode
either. It fills the screen with a list of partion(1) stuff and then at the end, it reboots again.
:
: I booted from the Windows XP CD. In repair mode, on the command line, it can't list the contents of my C drive. It just doesn't
do it and says that the command dir cannot be performed. It can't upgrade Windows XP since it wants to format my drive since it
thinks that the drive is unformated.
:
: I am using a relatively new 80 GB Western Digital drive, 7200 RPM, with 8 MB cache. I ran the Western Digital boot disk
diagnostic tool. The Quick Test and full media scan come up clear. If I boot into DOS, DOS simply does not see my C drive.
:
: What do I do?
:
: Thank you.
:
: -Kazem Edmond
 
The motherboard was recently replaced with a refurbished one. The power supply was replaced aswell. Both were replaced over the summer. I'd be surprised if that was the problem. I forgot to mention that I have a second hard disk with Suse Linux 8.2 on it

The boot loader was GRUB. It would normally present me with a list for Linux or Windows at startup. It no longer does this. It just asks if I want to boot in any of the Safe Modes or just the last working mode

So I am thinking that the boot loader, MBR, or something is totally buggered. I need to get my data back. Should I stick it in my friend's machine

-Kazem
 
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