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Joe 1
Have a Win XP runnign fine up to date with updates, etc. 18 GB Hard drive
appeared to fail, pulled power and data cables off and replaced w/80 GB,
clean install, updated, AVG, Comodo Firewall. Tried to power up old drive,
no good. Fianlly happened to move cables around for better air flow inside,
tried again to ower 18 GB HD and it worked. One channel of SCSI had died. PC
ignored the original boot, etc so I removed any windows references from 18
GB HD. Happy city.
Two months ago tried IE 8 and did not read any warnings. It loaded and
failed, was uninstalled. All fine. g\Got update notice, didn't read all
warnings and installed. It was SP 3. I waited and tried IE 8 download again.
Worked OK, came to MS community with question on notification area and IE 8
died and burned. My attempts to uninstall IE 8 caused major OS problems.
conclusion by PA Bear was a clean reinstall, no registry cleaners,
positively up to date everything.
I realized 18 GB HD was essentially empty, removed the few thongs I parked
on it, checked for errors, formatted and did a clean install but reordering
boot sequence to CD first and 80 GB HD powered off. All is good, put AV and
Comodo on the !* GB SD without internet connection. XP is now up to date BUT
With both disks powered it will only boot off 80 GB HD despite no
bootini/win.ini, etc I renamed. It stops at "Incorrect Boot.ini" and
"Booting from C:\Windows\" and I'm stuck on the 80 GB HD.
Any idea how to force a boot from the 18 GB HD? I'm so close to home.
Thanks.
Two months
appeared to fail, pulled power and data cables off and replaced w/80 GB,
clean install, updated, AVG, Comodo Firewall. Tried to power up old drive,
no good. Fianlly happened to move cables around for better air flow inside,
tried again to ower 18 GB HD and it worked. One channel of SCSI had died. PC
ignored the original boot, etc so I removed any windows references from 18
GB HD. Happy city.
Two months ago tried IE 8 and did not read any warnings. It loaded and
failed, was uninstalled. All fine. g\Got update notice, didn't read all
warnings and installed. It was SP 3. I waited and tried IE 8 download again.
Worked OK, came to MS community with question on notification area and IE 8
died and burned. My attempts to uninstall IE 8 caused major OS problems.
conclusion by PA Bear was a clean reinstall, no registry cleaners,
positively up to date everything.
I realized 18 GB HD was essentially empty, removed the few thongs I parked
on it, checked for errors, formatted and did a clean install but reordering
boot sequence to CD first and 80 GB HD powered off. All is good, put AV and
Comodo on the !* GB SD without internet connection. XP is now up to date BUT
With both disks powered it will only boot off 80 GB HD despite no
bootini/win.ini, etc I renamed. It stops at "Incorrect Boot.ini" and
"Booting from C:\Windows\" and I'm stuck on the 80 GB HD.
Any idea how to force a boot from the 18 GB HD? I'm so close to home.
Thanks.
Two months