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Solve : windows XP boot problems? |
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Answer» Quote I have the memory of an Elephant.....When you come over and I PAY for your 1st round of golf, you'll forget everything I'm just waiting for the plane ticket to arrive in the post... Did you WANT me to drive instead ? ?Cross country drive would be nice, I guess I get to where the REATOGO-X_PE desk top and when I double-click on OTLPE icon, a"Browse For Folder" window opens up. "Choose Windows Directory" and then a list of disks * RAMDisk (B:) * HP_RECOVERY (C:) * Local Disk (H:) All of the one I choose gives following error RunScanner Error Target is not windows 2000 or later When I open up My Computer, drives B & C have total size 64 MB & * GB and free space info about them. Drive H does not list any info for it. This hard drive in computer is around 400 GB. I'm afraid it sounds like a full wipe and clean install is needed... Keep in mind as long as i've been doing this i rarely if ever offer that advice. Slave Drive Tutorial... Done properly the above method should ALLOW you to recover any and all data you need from that machine... Best of Luck.patio may be right, but let me ask you one more question. What is the drive letter, where Windows originally resided?Sorry for delay. Before any problems, the hard drive was "C". Now it is listed as the "H" drive. The restore drive was "D" and now it is listed as "C" drive. Will try the slave drive hook-up to recover data. Thanks for all the help. Reading mine and others post has helped a lot in learning about computers. I looked on internet but have yet to find a way to slave a SATA drive, which mine is. Is there another way to recover, mainly, photo and MS word files from a SATA drive that won't boot up? Instructions are for PATA drive, not SATA drive. There is no Master/Slave for SATA.For a SATA drive to be slave it needs to be on a SATA port above #2... NOTE: On some machines it is odd #'d SATA ports that accomplise this such as 3 or 5... Consult your MBoard manual...Thanks everyone for help. After ruling out all easy options, one fix did work. I was able to find another spare hard SATA drive and install it in computer and use the "Recovery Disks" I made when I first got computer( HP help desk told me these may be bad and I needed to order more from them $). Those formatted the new hard drive. I found the same type of cables were attached to CD drive (port #9)as I needed for a second hard drive hookup. After hooking up the "unbootable" hard drive and restarting computer it ran "CHKDSK" and changed several things and I was able to open up the hard drive and copy all the files. CHKDSK said that it deleted corrupt attribute list entry with type code 128 in file 5768, and about 3 other files. It also Deleted index entry WPDNSE in index $I30 of file 19292. Later it added back stuff to both the index $I30 and file. After these checks I was able to access the "bad" hard drive I needed files from. I re hooked up the "bad" drive and disconnected the new one and everything works now. It took a long while (about 5 min) to load everything after my desktop screen came on. Thanks again for help! |
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