P4P800 Deluxe and blinking cursor

[NBK]

Hi

Windows XP SP2 will not boot. I rebooted my system and received a
blinking cursor in the left corner. I unplugged my USB to no avail. I
reset the CMOS to no avail. I reflashed the 1019 BIOS to no avail.

My Specs: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Enermax EG651P-VE FMA 550 Watts, On
board sound, on board NIC, ADS 1394a Card, Pioneer DVR-A04 DVD-RW,
Samsung SM-352b Combo Drive, Windows XP Pro SP2, Zalman CNPS7000A-CU,
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe rev. 2.0 1019 BIOS, P4 3.4E OEM SL7E6 MALAY rev. D0
processor, Maxtor 40Gb HDD PATA, Maxtor 160Gb HDD RAID 0

Attached USB Stuff: APC Back-UPS RS 1500VA UPS, HP Photosmart 7550
Printer, Umax Astra 2200 Scanner

Thanks
NBK

 

[Bill Anderson]

Hi

Windows XP SP2 will not boot. I rebooted my system and received a
blinking cursor in the left corner.

You rebooted after doing what exactly?

Have you checked your BIOS to see which drive/partition you're booting
from? I've discovered that after making changes to my system, like
adding a new hdd, the BIOS will make a different drive my boot drive.

Bill Anderson

 

[NBK]

You rebooted after doing what exactly?

Have you checked your BIOS to see which drive/partition you're booting
from? I've discovered that after making changes to my system, like
adding a new hdd, the BIOS will make a different drive my boot drive.

Bill Anderson

I ran Maxtor's PowerMax to check for errors and found some errors on it.
More than likely i am looking at clean install!!!!!!!!!

Thanks
NBK

 

[NBK]

I ran Maxtor's PowerMax to check for errors and found some errors on it.
More than likely i am looking at clean install!!!!!!!!!

Thanks
NBK

Can anyone think of something before i lowlevel format the hard drive.
Thanks
NBK

 

[m.marien]

Can anyone think of something before i lowlevel format the hard drive.
Thanks
NBK

I'm fairly certain that PowerMax warns you about destroying the data whe it
makes changes. I checked a few drives with it for warrantee. One it fixed.
Everything was wiped from before, but it rewrote the partition table so that
basically wipes out the partitions anyhow.

If it's really important, try norton or something - otherwise, start again
sir.

 

[NBK]

I'm fairly certain that PowerMax warns you about destroying the data whe it
makes changes. I checked a few drives with it for warrantee. One it fixed.
Everything was wiped from before, but it rewrote the partition table so that
basically wipes out the partitions anyhow.

If it's really important, try norton or something - otherwise, start again
sir.

I low-level formatted the drive. I am thinking about replacing it.
Thanks
NBK