Processor: AMD Athlon Barton 2500+ (overclocked) HDD 2: 200 GB Maxtor (the one I'm trying to install Windows on) HDD 1: 80 GB Western Digital (the one that won't boot Windows) BIOS detects the hard drive and Windows XP Recovery Console can see the files in there, so I kind of doubt that's the problem. This hard drive is really large (200 GB) and I heard that that could be a problem, but I'm not sure. I've tried fixmbr, fixboot, chkdsk and rerunning the Windows XP installer. I started installing Windows XP SP2 on the other hard drive, but after it copied all the files from DOS and restarted, it gave the following error: So I decided to give up on the hard drive and use my other one. I isolated the issue to a hard drive fault corrupting my registry, so I tried to repair the registry, but I discovered that that only temporarily fixes it and it eventually reverts to its previous state. When I restarted I found that Windows wouldn't start up (the loading screen would just keep going for a long time and then restart). So a while ago I had to do a cold shutdown because my Windows XP machine locked up.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |