Yet another Disk Boot Failure debacle
- From: "dbubd" <matthewmwarren@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Aug 2006 10:54:25 -0700
Hello all,
I just bought a new system including a Maxtor SATA HD and ASUS A8N SLI
Deluxe MB. It's all put together, WinXP installed on the SATA HD. When
I start it up... Disk Boot Failure (DBF)... Of course it starts up fine
with the WinXP CD in the drive. That is until I moved some hardware
around. Now it does the DBF sans CD and attempts to install a fresh XP
with the CD in rather than booting to Windows. To get around this I put
an old IDE HD in and installed XP on that. Boots up fine AND the SATA
HD shows up and SEEMS to run perfectly. My system just won't boot from
it.
In reading other posts about DBFs, I concluded that somehow the drive
must be bad. At lease in the boot sector. I tried all of the various
FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, etc. from the Windows XP recovery tools (pressing 'R'
at setup). Now, after all that failed to fix the drive, I'm getting set
to send it back to Maxtor. To obtain a RMA from Maxtor you must run
their PowerMax utility and get an error code from it when it reports
that the drive is bad! Well, I ran every utility on that disk with the
exception of Format and they all reported the drive to be in perfect
operating condition.
So now I've got a HD that won't boot and no proof that it won't.
Any suggestions to getting the HD to respond or how to deal with the
Maxtor catch 22?
Thanks,
Matthew
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