I am using XP home. Recently had a HD crash and was able to recover most of the files and clone to another drive. One of the casualties that still...
Thanks for the aricle Newt
Problem finally solved Like most unusual problems, the solution was very simple, but not too obvious. This is a dual boot system, with XP home...
I think I may have discovered the problem I thought I would run partition magic to see if I had a hidden first partiion that was preventing the...
Thanks for the replies eveyone. I haven't run fixboot yet, Newt. Right now the two drives are back in their orgignal positions so I can use the...
All three files are there, and running a file compare against the same files on the old drive found no discrepencies.
I have a failing boot drive, so I cloned the entire drive bit by bit to a second drive attached to the MB. When I tried to boot the cloned drive,...
Not sure this is the right forum, but maybe I can be redirected. I am going to be doing a lot of travelling in the US, and some in Mexico. I...
Thanks Pete Yes, one of the first things I tried was downloading both new Windows XP and HP drivers for XP. No help. Funny, it is only printing...
Ever since I upgraded to XP home from 98, I have had trouble with Word 2000 correctly placing return address blocks on envelopes. I have tried...
Thanks for the reply Newt. Tried switching ports already and this thing is designed to use the Microsoft driver that XP chooses for it when it is...
Uninstalled SP2, unable to use SP1 restore points. I uninstalled SP2 after it caused me problems with my USB 2 card reader. The reader is...
Follow up Well, four days of booting cleanly, cold, several times a day, are making me very happy. No more disk messages in the event log. Looks...
What I forgot to mention... in the previous post was that I also got another DR1 failing message in the event viewer, after installing the new drive.
That fixed it! But now comes the "my face is really red" part of this whole problem. Remember back in post #7 of this thread, I made this...
OK Joe, you were right... Got this message on the event log yesterday: "The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 has...
Addendum The "can't find NTDLR" problem appears to have vanished; warm boot or cold boot. So what happened? Here is what I think: Sometime...
Thanks to all for your help Did a boot test after the drive was warm for a couple of hours and got five out of five clean boots. When cold, it...
Joe It wasn't a recent repartition. What happened was I installed the XP update on a brand new drive which I had partioned with the...
Newt I meant to say chkdsk. Old os terms die hard. Ran it with the /r switch. Took forever on the 120G drive. Found and corrected some...
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