Re: XP install says no file system on drive, but files are still visible

From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:40:40 GMT

"Lee@DVDDebate" <lee@nospamdvddebate.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:54:18 GMT, "WinGuy" <no_spam@nomail.bot> wrote:
> Graphics are on board, so no AGP card.

In my last message I meant 256 colors in forced VGA mode, not 16. But you
are using a AGP driver. Try this... make a backup copy of the existing
Drivers folder, the one I mean is in the system32 folder. Then move these
files over from that HDD driver folder that does boot, and give it a try. I
guess you could not get into Safe Mode after selecting the VGA mode at the
menu?

atapi.sys
intelide.sys
pciidex.sys
storprop.dll

> Something you said earlier got me thinking last night. The machine is
> a work machine and came with XP Pro already loaded. The XP install
> disc I was using is not the same one that was originally installed. I
> wonder if this might be the reason for it not showing up when I try to
> repair it? Would the install disc refuse to acknowledge the existing
> install if the discs were different? It's unlikely our support guys
> will be able to tell which was the original. May even have been an OEM
> install.

Not necessarily, since you didn't get a lockout at registration time. You
can upgrade a non pirated XP-H or XP-P, OEM or not, with the full (not an
upgrade) retail version of XP-P. Other combinations might result in lockout
at registration time, or simply refuse to install. If I remember correctly,
you said the install did not complete but errored at some point and went
into infinite reboot? It really sounds like it choked on a driver, and I'm
betting one of the above 4 that I listed, or a graphics driver.

> I'll check the ntblog later today, but to be honest I'm at the stage
> now where I'm thinking I'll have to re-install a new drive and slave
> this old one permanently :(

Don't give up just yet! Since you can access it as a slave, be sure to have
checked it for bad sectors too (it will take forever, I know, but do it). At
least you can back it up (theoretically) and the data there is still
availalbe. So is its registry still intact, I'll bet. Just some stupid
driver. You could also try backing up its current system32\drivers folder
and moving the entire one over from the drive that does boot. If that works,
or it then has entirely different problems, then a repair reinstall of XP
will probably fix it at that point. In that case it's probably a corrupt
graphics driver it's choking on right now, I guess.

Winguy

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