System won't boot after new HDD installation and MaxBlast crash

[Guest]

Hi,
I recently installed a new Maxtor 200 GB HDD on my HP running Windows XP.
Ran Maxblast 4 installation software (making the new HDD the boot disc) which
crashed in the middle of copying files. Disk formatting etc seemed to work
fine. Now I can't boot, it hangs with a blue Windows XP screen. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Joe

 

[Guest]

so what you are saying is that you "added" another harddrive to your current
system and made it disk0? So at this time you can't boot up because your
original boot drive (disk0) is now (disk1), right?

 

[thecreator]

Hi Joe,

Did you partition the Hard Drive? Did you remove the old Hard Drive?
What version of XP are we referring to? Remember the smaller an operating
system's partition is, the quicker it is to do an image of the partition and
also to restore the image also.

Have you Formatted the Hard Drive and then install the operating system,
thru the XP CD?

 

[Guest]

I didn't get that far. The next step according to the Maxtor instructions,
if everything copied properly, was to make the new drive the master (0).
However I didn't do this since it crashed midway through the copy. I've
tried rebooting with both the new drive by itself as well as the old drive by
itself. The new drive does nothing all blank after the BIOS screen... the
old drive makes it to the Micrsoft XP screen and hangs.

 

[Guest]

I formatted and partitioned via the MaxBlast program. I am using XP
Professional with SP1. The computer is an "old" work computer, thus I don't
have the XP CD. (When my company upgrades, they don't support the older
"discarded" units)

 

[thecreator]

Hi Joe,

Can you buy a Windows XP Professional SP 2 Full Version program? Makes
things a lot easier in the long run.

 

[Anna]

I didn't get that far. The next step according to the Maxtor instructions,
if everything copied properly, was to make the new drive the master (0).
However I didn't do this since it crashed midway through the copy. I've
tried rebooting with both the new drive by itself as well as the old drive
by
itself. The new drive does nothing all blank after the BIOS screen... the
old drive makes it to the Micrsoft XP screen and hangs.

Joe:
First of all we'll assume the following...
1. Before you installed your new Maxtor HD, the system performed without
problems. Your boot drive booted to a Desktop without incident and the
system functioned just fine. Right?
2. Your plan was to use the Maxtor disk copying software to copy (clone) the
contents of your old HD to the new one so that the new one would then
function as your new day-to-day boot drive. Right?

Now, after using that MaxBlast program -- and there were problems using
it -- your old HD no longer boots and neither does your new 200 GB Maxtor.
Right? (I assume you've been able to post your messages using another
machine, right?)

Assuming the above is the case -- you probably should do the following (at
least for a start)...

Perform a Repair install on your old HD. Hopefully that will bring it back
to life. If you don't know how to perform a Repair install, do a Google
search on "XP repair install". You'll find step-by-step instructions on a
number of websites.

Then we can go on from there...
Anna

 

[Guest]

Will that do the trick?

Hi Joe,

Can you buy a Windows XP Professional SP 2 Full Version program? Makes
things a lot easier in the long run.

 

[thecreator]

Hi Joe,

Adding: You don't do after installation of XP, but before installation.
There are jumpers on the Back of the Hard Drive to set. The choices are
Master, Slave and Cable Select. The old Hard Drive is probably set to
Master. You must change it to Slave. The diagrams to follow are located on
the Hard Drives themselves.

For Cable Select, the Hard Drive further away from the Board connector /
connection is considererd to be Hard Drive 0 and the Hard Drive closest to
the Motherboard connector / connection is considered to be Hard Drive 1 or
Slave.

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Yes, all of your assumptions are correct. I will search for the repair
install and let you know how I make out. Thanks!

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Yes, all of your assumptions are correct. I will search for the repair
install and let you know how I make out. Thanks!

How are you going to do a "repair install" without the installation CD?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

Hi Anna,
It looks like you need the XP CD (which I don't have) for the repair
install. Any other thoughts?
Thanks

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I formatted and partitioned via the MaxBlast program.

I don't know if it's changed or not, but MaxBlast used to partition in a
non-standard way. If it still does that, XP probably doesn't like it.

 

[Anna]

Hi Anna,
It looks like you need the XP CD (which I don't have) for the repair
install. Any other thoughts?
Thanks

Joe:
Yes, you most certainly need the XP installation CD to perform the Repair
install. You might want to get in touch with Microsoft for a replacement
assuming you no longer have the original.
Anna

 

[thecreator]

Hi Joe,

It should, but Ken also suggested that you can buy a cheap copy of
Windows 98 and use it as verification of previously owning another version
of Windows which then you could get away with buying an Upgrade of Windows
XP Professional Edition, instead of having to buy the Full version which
does not require ownership of a previous operating system.

Also please check the jumper settings for the Hard Drives. Make sure
that both aren't a Master on the same Ribbon Cable. See my other post to
you.