Sounds like a bad block on the first sector. You might need a serious
professional utility or shop to access the bad block and retrieve the info to
move it to the next sector so it can boot from the 2nd sector while the 1st
sector is marked as bad. I don't know of a utility that could fix it
non-destructively without wiping the rest of the drive in the process. Western
digital and Maxtor have an excellent low level format utility that might be able
to fix the bad 1st sector block, but you'd lose your data in the process. Just a
thought, is the drive cable firmly secure to the hard drive and mobo in the
case? And does the bios still see the hard drive attached to IDE0?
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Regards,
Durand
| Thanks for the fast reply. i tried your suggestion and the comp locked up.
| i got this message at the bottom of the screen:
|
| EXAMINING 156328MB DISK 0 AT ID0 ON BUS0 ON ATAPI
|
| comp locked up solid. it has been doing this at the same point every time i
| try to get to the recovery console. or try to re-install. thanks again
|
|
|
| | > If you have your XP retail or oem cd, put it in and reboot. It will load
| up into
| > setup, but you only need to access the recovery console from the cd. It
| will ask
| > you for your administrator password, and once you've entered the correct
| one,
| > type fixmbr /? which should fix your problem.
| >
| > --
| > Regards,
| >
| > Durand
| >
| >
| > | > | got "Blasted" my mbr is corrupted. Partition Magic says that the drive
| was
| > | improperly dismounted. I can use PM's browser to see my files on the
| drive
| > | but cannot access it.. does anyone know of a good easy to use partition
| > | repair utility? PM say to run chkdsk /f but i cannot access the
| partition
| > | to use it and chkdsk says i can't use it anyway and to run scandisk.
| Please
| > | help!!
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
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