Re: This can't be the hard drive....
- From: nos1eep <nos1eep.torll@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:18:45 -0500
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:10:58 GMT, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (ErickWhite) wrote:
|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?
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-nos1eep
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