[sucker]

strangest problem ever.

Short version: My computer (notebook barebone) will give me a " hard disk error" every time i use "restart" command in windows (XP, SP2). However, if i shut down and then start it from the power button, everything seems to work just fine.

when it hangs with the "hard disk error" i usually just keep the power button pressed to shut it down and then simply start it and it works.

some more important information:

I had a great barebone computer before that worked flawless and took about three years of abuse until the keyboard died on me. it was however discontinued so i bought another notebook barebone system and just moved the processor and the hard disk from the old one. just like that. it started and i just updated the drivers and made the necessary adjustments at the devices and it is working very well, except this strange "Hard disk error" which was there from the first time i restarted the new system.

never heared anything like this. any help appreciated.

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[Me__2001]

what does the error say exactly ?

[acidnut]

It could be that your Hard Drive is failing. Try to put a new one, see if the problem continues.

[muckshifter]

Sorry ... but taking a HD, with XP on it, and sticking into another system ... will more than likely have a problem/fail.

Get your data off, reformat, re-install ...

[Taino]

muckshifter
offers sound advice.

Sounds like a bios setting, just consider that XP found drivers after XP was loaded ( after drivers are loaded, after POST), but a new bios knows not your old bios, and even if you were anal enough to know every setting on the original board, this may still be an unholy rebirth.

Like the 98 to win2k upgrade unholy birth from hell...
I said upgrade to XP......sorry to much beer last nite....

[sucker]

thanks for all your sound advice people.

can't really change any settings from the bios, this computer has the strangest bios i've ever seen. you can only set the order of drives for booting and a few other irrelevant stuff, but there was no way i could have set anything about the hard drive for example.

somebody asked what the error says. it says:
"HARD DISK ERROR!
L2 cache: 512K installed
No Bootable CD"

I guess the last line is due to the fact that it tries to boot from CD after it couldn't boot from HDD.

I hate the thought of reinstalling OS as i have billions of profiles and other settings which i don't really know how to export. plus all the updates and so on that i'll have to download again.