Re: XP & 2 Hard Drives Conflict? BootUp Loop
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Date: 08/16/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:01:38 -0700
"CJ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This past weekend my husband installed XP on my PC. He
> placed a second hard Drive (D)into my system that contains
> my precious system, WIN 98 and my saved files. Our plan
> was/is to move many files, such as photos, etc. onto the
> hard drive, Drive C, that is XP, and afterwards remove the
> second hard drive (D) from my PC. But as of yet, I've not
> moved any files from D to C as I'm having a BIG problem.
> On booting up the PC gets caught in a boot/start up loop.
> It gets so far into the boot up when it starts a disk
> check. It always says "Checking file system on D: The
> type of file system is FAT32". Once the disk check is
> complete, the PC starts to load XP and then is starts to
> reboot again. If I stop the disk check before it begins in
> one of the repeat bootup loops, the PC 'sometimes' manages
> to load XP and works for while. During the times XP is
> working at some time it suddenly starts rebooting on it's
> own. Other times when it's working and I go to shut it
> down, half the time it shuts down, then immediately starts
> to reboot, and there we go again...caught in that
> rebooting/disk check loop. We don't know if the problem is
> a startup/shut down issue, or a problem with the smaller
> hard drive (D) that holds my precious operating system (WIN
> 98) since that disk check on boot up is always checking
> Drive D. We'd apprecitate any help in what might be our
> problem and how to fix it. Thank you so much.
It's likely some kind of HW problem unrelated to XP or the D drive. But
what? What got moved, tweaked or bumped in the upgrade process? Is there a
heat problem; try it with the case off?
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