Hi All,

My pc refuses to boot beyond the screen giving bios info, detecting
drives etc. The pc hangs wiht the cursor flashing in the top left
corner of the screen. I did a thorough check on the hard drive using
the (manufacturer's) Western Digital diagnostic software. It passed.
The pc boots fine when I physically change the hard drive to
another.

After trying almost all the 'solutions' found on the internet I do not
know what to do. Any suggestions anyone?

Some things tried included: resetting the bios; interchanging onboard
video with pci video card; removing unnecessary peripherals; using
drivers knowing to be working; restoring to a point 2 weeks earlier
(manually).

(Compaq pres/celeron/512 mb/160 gigs; Windows XP Pro [troubled disk]/
Home [working disk])

Help me, please!

Thanks,

Greer

greerjohn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My pc refuses to boot beyond the screen giving bios info, detecting
> drives etc. The pc hangs wiht the cursor flashing in the top left
> corner of the screen. I did a thorough check on the hard drive using
> the (manufacturer's) Western Digital diagnostic software. It passed.
> The pc boots fine when I physically change the hard drive to
> another.
>
> After trying almost all the 'solutions' found on the internet I do not
> know what to do. Any suggestions anyone?
>
> Some things tried included: resetting the bios; interchanging onboard
> video with pci video card; removing unnecessary peripherals; using
> drivers knowing to be working; restoring to a point 2 weeks earlier
> (manually).
>
> (Compaq pres/celeron/512 mb/160 gigs; Windows XP Pro [troubled disk]/
> Home [working disk])
>
> Help me, please!

We don't know what "all the solutions found on the internet" means...

More likely than not the "Active" partition flag has been removed. If
the computer has a floppy disk drive you can boot the computer with a
Windows 98 Startup diskette and verify/set the active partition flag
with Fdisk. If the computer doesn't have a floppy drive you can mount
the disk in another Windows XP computer and use the built-in Disk
Management tool to set the "Active" partition. To launch the Disk
Management tool enter diskmgmt.msc in the Start Menu Run box.

John