This Pc is doing my head in.............. It started about couple of days ago, the 1st symtoms were that the monitor was telling me that there was no signal, so I checked the leads and it came back on, then a few days later it went into the screen to start in safe mode or last good confuguration, none of these options worked as it just went back to the same screen. I then remembered that there were 2 drives in there, so I ghosted it across thinking that would sort it, it appeared to ghost across ok. rebooted and exactly the same screen, I then diconnected the bigger drive and booted it up on the smaller drive, which worked ok. I made the assumptiom that the larger drive was knackered! Oh and it wouldn`t let me get passed the safe mode screen if both drives were plugged in. I then bought a new drive and replaced it and ghosted the small drive across and got exactly the same response as with the old drive! I then tried swopping the ide leads over to eliminate the leads and still no joy. I though it may be the M/B but if that was the case why does it fire up on the smaller drive and it looks like I bought a drive when that probably isn`t the problem. Any ideas? cheerz in advance
you may need to just reinstall completly and do a data migration of the data on your drives. a fresh install can fix anyproblem thats software related
By Ghosting a `perfect` set-up from the smaller drive to the new drive is surely as good as a re-install? Cheerz in advance
No offense, but I dont think your first install is perfect. Almost sounds like there is something funny going on in the boot.ini. Copy and paste the contents of this file in your next post. It can be found on the root of the boot drive. ~Rich
