Re: SP2 Killed My Hard Drive?
From: River_Rat (youknow_at_Iwillslapyou)
Date: 09/28/04
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:12:47 -0500
You may already know.
You will have to boot from the CD.
It will not work if you put the CD after you boot up.
-- Good Day River_Rat "Bob Newman" <bobnewman@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:5th6d.643044$Gx4.526086@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... I tried this option and no console comes up. Just a DOS screen and a message to type "EXIT" if you want to exit. There are no options. Bob "River_Rat" <youknow@Iwillslapyou> wrote in message news:10liun2ftgsfe40@corp.supernews.com... > Repairing a destroyed/corrupted MBR > 1.. Insert your Windows 2000, or Windows XP, or Windows 2003 CD. > 2.. When given the options to Install/Upgrade/Repair chose Repair, this > will open the Recovery Console which is password protected. > 3.. At the prompt run FIXMBR, this will install a new MBR for your > target OS. > > -- > Good Day > River_Rat > > > > > "Bob Newman" <bobnewman@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message > news:LLe6d.642556$Gx4.129426@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > Thank you. > > Bob > > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message > news:OsqYjgWpEHA.1160@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > > Comes across that you have a bad hard drive. Try using the free diagnostic > > utility from the vendor of your hard drive to check for problems with the > disk. > > The installation of SP2 will not cause a hard drive to fail mechanically. > > Likely, the unfortunate event was purely coincidental. > > > > Fujitsu > > http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic > > > > IBM and Hitachi > > http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT > > > > Maxtor/Quantum > > http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm > > > > Samsung > > > http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index.html > > > > Seagate > > http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html > > > > Western Digital > > http://support.wdc.com/download/ > > www.westerndigital.com > > > > -- > > Carey Frisch > > Microsoft MVP > > Windows XP - Shell/User > > > > Be Smart! Protect Your PC! > > http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > > > "Bob Newman" wrote: > > > > | Immediately after I installed XP update SP2 the system will not boot-up. > It > > | goes to the point where it says XP in the screen with the horizontal bar > > | running back and forth under it. After a while the screen goes black > for > > | several seconds and it tries again, and again to no avail. The repair > man > > | says it looks like a bad HD. When attempting to reinstall XP all > appears to > > | be going normally but after several steps into the process I get an > error > > | message regarding HD "57232 MB Disk 0 at ID0 on BUS 0 at api [MBR]". I > > | tried THE repair OPTION AS WELL to no avail. Could SP have caused this? > > | -- > > | Thanks in advance... Bob > > > > >
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