I added a seagate 120 to my computer and made it the boot drive. later I formatted the old 40gb and ended up removing it to make way for the 200 maxtor I picked up(another thread). the maxtor is still not in but I am having numerous crashes and lockups. If I use either dvd drive for any reason any program its fine till you try to shut the program down and it just hangs. been fighting it for a few days I think I'm going to have to format it and start fresh, I tried to put in my os to do a repair but its a oem reinstall disk has no repair on it. Now my question: I have an other version of xp pro will it repair this xp pro. Its not totally legit. I am still waiting for a response from shuttle on flashing my bios with a cd instead of floppy,can this be done? I tried to put the 200 in with xp pro sp2 but the bios still showed it as 136gb on startup so i shutdown and unhooked it. I'm glad I got some dvdrw's if I have to save stuff but not sure what all is corrupted. anyone got an idea kurt
put your bent copy of xp pro in ,boot from cd, at the screen choose r to use the recovery console if you pick the right windows [normally 1] and it lets you past the admin [normally just press enter] then it will run the repair to do this type chkdsk /r at the dos prompt
Thanks I'll give it a try. Got the hard drive installed used winflash to flash the bios, but still acting all weird. I am missing a huge folder of pictures also.
