Resolved Win XP not booting with newly slaved drive

Hello,

Two days ago broni helped me clean my machine, here is the thread:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/malware-virus-removal/90456-resolved-unique-win-xp-repair-problem.html .

I am trying to slave my fathers hard drive in order to scan it because it will not boot, even in safe mode.

I've set the drive up both as slave and cable select. I cannot get my system to go past the initial boot screen, where the bios is located unless i put my original slave back in place.

broni had me setup system restore on my system, which i have never had to use in the past. Could the problem be that because system restore does not see my original slave drive it will not boot windows? If so how can i set up my system to see my father's drive?

 

Yes steve,

My system drive is set up as master, I set up my father's drive as slave, then as cable select. Neither would allow my system to go to the windows boot up screen.

 

Make/Model of both drives, Your master and father's slave.

 

double post, sorry

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reply to wildfire

I'll have to pull them. I have to pick up my wife, be back shortly.

 

I'm back

Sorry about the interruption, here are the specs you asked for wildfire:

Master/ WD 1200 Caviar SE- 120 gb- set up as master w/slave present

Father's/ Seagate U10 Model ST315323A 15.3 gb- set up as slave

 

OK,

Let's try this first, take the Seagate out of the system.

Download Seatools for Dos and make a bootdisk/CD.

Now remove your Western Digital and replace it with the Seagate as Master.

Run Diagnostics on the Seagate and let us know how it goes.

 

problem solved

Downloaded Seagate Tools and burned it to cd-rw. Put the drive back in my fathers Dell, which is one of the last P4's to have 168-pin memory. Tried to load ST several times, to no avail. Then the next time the setup screen did not come up and the bios told me that there was a bad ram address.

The computer had a 256 stick and a 128, so I pulled the 128. Let it try to boot again, no go. Tried to load ST again, no go. Tried to reload windows and got the infamous blue screen of death. So I knew it was a hardware issue.

Began replacing everything connected to the Motherboard one part at a time including the hard drive. At this point the only thing left to be bad was the processor. So I pulled the fan, which was hidden in a funnel, the heatsink was very hot. I plugged the computer into power and the fan did not work at all.

So now I have to give my father the bad news. He needs to get a new or used processor, fan and ram card. That or buy a more up to date computer.

Thanks for the help wildfire, I appreciate it.

 

No problem, thanks for letting us know.

I would still run diagnostics on that Seagate though, it was also causing problems in your system. Perhaps a new CPU is only the start of the solution