what are my options?

[David]

I will explain ...

I just finished building a new PC and it runs great. But I have a problem
and can't figure it out. I'll share my system spec's first:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 nforce4-4x chipset
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939)
Memory: Corsair XMS TWINX1024-3200C2PT(2x512) (Slot 1 & 2) Kingston Value
Ram 2x256
Video: ASUS N62000TC 128mb

Hard drives:

My boot drive is a Western Digital Raptor 74 GB, 16 MB Cache 10,000 RPM
(SATA) Used basically for Windows XP SP2 Media Center Edition 2005 and some
apps.

My second drive is Western Digital 120gig IDE used for my music collection,
recorded TV from MCE and some other misc. things...

3rd drive is also a Western Digital SATA Drive WD Caviar SE16 7200RPM 320gig
used for storing movies.

there is also 2 other IDE devices... Both of these drives are from ASUS
dvd-burning combo drive and a cd rewrite/dvd rom drive (they seem to work
pretty well)

if I try and defrag using windows defrag I get the following error "Disk
Defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on volume C:
please run chkdsk /f so when I click OK here is the next:

The type of file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you
like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts?

now, weather I say yes or NO chkdsk still runs at startup so when it runs/or
I cancel the scan I get this error now:

"An Unspecified Error As Occurred"


So I've tried running Norton Disk Doctor and here is something else I get.

Error on hard disk 1 -- No bootable partition found

The partition table doesn't contain a valid bootable partition.

If you receive the error message "Non-system disk or disk error", correct
this problem.

Then it ask if I want to correct this problem at this point I so NO and I
move on.

I do have all the latest drives for all my hardware and software. would it
be worth it to try and figure this out? or would it be better to reformat
the drive and install XP MCE again.

Thanks

 

[DatabaseBen]

one option that i would suggest would
be to do a windows repair with your
setup cd.

this might be a quick way to fix a complicated
problem.

if your result are unfavorable, then remove
the access devices from your system and
begin to find a functional point for your o.s.
with 1 (main) drive.

once you simplify the configuration, it
will help figure out where the problem is.

after you get 1 drive functional and everything
works (I mean everything), then begin connecting
the other devices one at a time. Ensuring that
each time you connect a device, that the o.s. is
running perfect....

sounds like you did a great job building your
dream machine. but take some of it apart to
simplify your diagnosis and the problem....