Re: Maxtor 6Y160P0 wont boot after Ghost attempt

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"les_stockton" <les_stockton.1o0npm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've had XP Home running on a Sony Vaio for a couple of months. The
> main hard drive is a 160 gig Maxtor 6Y160P0. I remember when I
> initially struggled to install the OS, that XP didn't like this drive
> because it was larger than 137 gig or 127 gig (I don't recall, off
> hand). However, Maxtor's MaxBlast software installed bios that allowed
> using the drive and booting to it.
> Today, I tried using Ghost 2003 to do a backup to CD. This was a big
> mistake and I'll never use Ghost again.
> Ghost gave no indication of anything wrong. It's supposed to reboot
> into DOS and run without windows so that it can properly backup the
> primary boot drive. Well, it wouldn't boot at all. There was some
> problem with Ghost, which I never figured out. I just tried rebooting
> back to my hard drive, but the bios appears to have changed. It will
> no longer boot to my hard drive either.
> I've heard that other people have had this problem, but I've not seen a
> detailed solution. I'm hoping I haven't lost the information on the
> drive. I'd like to redo the bios, if possible and just reboot to the
> hard drive. If I want to do a backup again, I'll try something
> besides Ghost.
>
>
> --
> les_stockton

You've described in detail the circumstances surrounding
your problem but you have told us nothing about your actual
boot problem. What happens during the boot process?
How far does it get? What messages (if any) do you see?


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