HD Probs??

[Doum]

Thanks for the response Anna.

There have been developments.

When I have the HD connected now and boot up, I get
the black screen with white letters that lets me
either Restart Windows Normally in 25 seconds,
or start in any of 3 varieties of SAFE more.

If I select SAFE Mode, I get a whole scroll of lines that
begin with "MULTI (0) DISK ...", then it reboots to that
same screen. Never actually boots into an XP logo screen.
If I just let it run it will just continue to recycle thru
that same XP boot-select screen.

If I choose Restart Windows Normally in 25 seconds,
the seconds count down to 0 then pc reboots thru
bios and back to the Start Windows Normally in 25 seconds
screen.

Still will not boot to XP though.

I think all of those who said it wasn't Windows related jumped to
conclusion too fast. I had that NTLDR missing once on one computer and
copied the file back in the root directory of my boot drive and the
computer restarted. The file might have been corrupted somehow (malware?,
power surge?, who knows...).

Anna's suggestion to do a repair install is certainly worth a try.

HTH

 

[HeyBub]

You mean they boot and are 100% operational and without error
messages? That's very unusual. At any rate, if that's really the
case, I'd say a rebuild of the hard drive is in order. If that fails,
then it's going to be hardware somehow. SMART is usually fairly good
but that message you got I've never seen.

Huh?

Are you really suggesting that hard drives found to work in other machines
are in need of "rebuilding?"

 

[Twayne]

In

I think all of those who said it wasn't Windows related
jumped to conclusion too fast. I had that NTLDR missing
once on one computer and copied the file back in the root
directory of my boot drive and the computer restarted. The
file might have been corrupted somehow (malware?, power
surge?, who knows...).

Anna's suggestion to do a repair install is certainly worth
a try.

HTH

It can't hurt anything, or shouldn't anyway. A few updates will go missing
and have to be allowed to redownload but disk data shouldn't be affected.
However, it's still a good idea to do a backup first, just in case
something goes wrong. Regardless of what it is, always backup whenever doing
anything around the OS.

HTH,

Twayne`