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- Bobb -
Neighbor had pc not booting. I have same model so put his drive in my PC
to save his pictures/music etc in case needed to reinstall XP. When I put
the drive in my Pc, ( cable select - his was second connection on primary
IDE cable) I booted my drive and it announced - "need to scan secondary
drive - was shutdown improperly" , so I let it scan/fix his drive and I
could see his files in XP - copied to CD - all set.
Rebooted and ON MY PC I have had 2 boot options on MY primary drive, ( I
often have several drives in there) so I elected to now boot his ( as
secondary drive). His drive booted up - looked good. I bought back to his
house ( thinking I was done) and it hangs (his only disk drive). It
STARTS to boot and looks good .... just before it would be at the user
profile screen ( 2 users) it hangs at a "XP Home Edition" screen. I
removed what I could from his box in case something hanging it, but same
thing, so I brought it back to my house. Put back in as secondary drive -
booted it -- OK. HOWEVER, if I make it the ONLY drive in my PC ( as with
his) using primary IDE cable - master connector , it hangs on my PC too -
same spot. I then had it as ONLY drive on my pc - using primary IDE
cable - slave connector - same thing. so , ( FINALLY !) to my question:
What is different OS-wise when it is hooked up as the secondary drive ?
What is happening JUST before the user names appear on-screen.
Also .. more info ... in no case on either Pc using either connector can I
get Safe Mode ( or any other F8 option) to work when I boot that drive.IT
will let me SELECT any of the F8 options ( Command Prompt, Safe Mode ,
debugging etc), but it does the same things onscreen, hangs at same spot.
I expected it to get me to a C:\ prompt - WHY is it getting me to the XP
user profile screen ??? AND when after hanging I do a hard power-off, it
never notices that I powered it off. I EXPECTED it to announce- shutdown
improperly - need to scan disk - it doesn't. Back in as second drive (
with another XP drive as primary) and still works fine.
It's late so I'll sleep on this one for now.
Any thoughts ?
to save his pictures/music etc in case needed to reinstall XP. When I put
the drive in my Pc, ( cable select - his was second connection on primary
IDE cable) I booted my drive and it announced - "need to scan secondary
drive - was shutdown improperly" , so I let it scan/fix his drive and I
could see his files in XP - copied to CD - all set.
Rebooted and ON MY PC I have had 2 boot options on MY primary drive, ( I
often have several drives in there) so I elected to now boot his ( as
secondary drive). His drive booted up - looked good. I bought back to his
house ( thinking I was done) and it hangs (his only disk drive). It
STARTS to boot and looks good .... just before it would be at the user
profile screen ( 2 users) it hangs at a "XP Home Edition" screen. I
removed what I could from his box in case something hanging it, but same
thing, so I brought it back to my house. Put back in as secondary drive -
booted it -- OK. HOWEVER, if I make it the ONLY drive in my PC ( as with
his) using primary IDE cable - master connector , it hangs on my PC too -
same spot. I then had it as ONLY drive on my pc - using primary IDE
cable - slave connector - same thing. so , ( FINALLY !) to my question:
What is different OS-wise when it is hooked up as the secondary drive ?
What is happening JUST before the user names appear on-screen.
Also .. more info ... in no case on either Pc using either connector can I
get Safe Mode ( or any other F8 option) to work when I boot that drive.IT
will let me SELECT any of the F8 options ( Command Prompt, Safe Mode ,
debugging etc), but it does the same things onscreen, hangs at same spot.
I expected it to get me to a C:\ prompt - WHY is it getting me to the XP
user profile screen ??? AND when after hanging I do a hard power-off, it
never notices that I powered it off. I EXPECTED it to announce- shutdown
improperly - need to scan disk - it doesn't. Back in as second drive (
with another XP drive as primary) and still works fine.
It's late so I'll sleep on this one for now.
Any thoughts ?