Re: e-Machine stuck in continual loop

Hello everyone,

Well, I spent the entire weekend trying to get into my hard drive--with no
success. Since I was planning on upgrading my memory anyway, rather than
trying to find a place around here to test the memory stick originally
installed, I bought a new one and installed it. Still the same problem.

I downloaded the installation disks from the MS site and tried to rewrite
the MBR, got a success message. I do not have a full win xp installation
disk so when after installing the setup files, it asked for the win xp
cd....I was out of luck.

I dug around and found an old pc of mine, but it had win me os on it, so
though the system bios recognised the "sick" HDD slaved to the good HDD in
the bios, I could not see it in the Win ME. So I went out and bought the Win
xp home edition upgrade disk and upgraded the HDD from the old pc I had and
slaved the "sick" HDD to the upgraded HDD and installed them both in the
emachine, thinking I could get my files ( I also ran Norton 2005 anti
virus.... it sound nothing).

The emachine boots just fine from the upgraded HDD and I was able to see
the "sick" HDD. BUT I cannot find any files. I went to the prompt and typed
the drive letter to the sick drive and typed DIR. When I type DIR, there are
no windows files, no program files, no doc file names. I ran a search in in
Windows in the sick HDD using file names and it does not find anything. I
think whatever attacked it corrupted everything and wiped out windows. The
funny thing is, this is a 40GB HDD and Windows XP is reading it as a 10 GB.

It doesn't look like I am going to be able to recover my documents...at
least I am more at a loss at this point. I still have not reformatted the
sick drive, so if by some chance someone has any last ditch magic to recover
the data, I am still open to sugggestions.

I do want to thank everyone for the great suggestions and the help. I will
be coming back and posting.
--
nlee788


"Chelsea" wrote:

>
> "kyle" <kyle.1rxv1n@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:kyle.1rxv1n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I copied the dcpromo.log onto Disk 6 as you advised. I booted up with
> > the disks and got to the Recovery Console. I typed the commands as you
> > advised. Unfortunately, the computer said it couldn't find the file. I
> > double-checked the disk using the other computer. The file dcpromo.log
> > definitely exists. I exited, and as before my computer went into its
> > loop. And it won't boot up Windows in Safe Mode, either. Oh well. . .
> > Looking forward to your reply.
> > Kyle
> >
> >
> Hello Kyle,
> I am foxed as to why that doesn't work. The dcpromo.log file is normally
> installed from within Windows, but as you are unable to get into Windows, I
> modified things to use the Recovery Console. If you would be prepared to
> persevere with this a little and can face another 10 minutes of tedium with
> the recovery console try this. Incidently I just tried this on a laptop
> using a USB A drive and can assure you it does work.
>
> In the Recovery Console type the following at the c:\windows prompt
>
> With diskette 6 in the drive type
> a:
> then type dir-can you see dcpromo.log on the diskette?
> Now type
> copy dcpromo.log c:\windows\debug
>
> Type c: and return -that takes you back to c:\windows prompt
>
> Finally type
> attrib +r c:\windows\debug\dcpromo.log
>
> Type exit
>
> Remove the diskette from the 3.5 inch drive and see what happens when
> Windows restarts.
>
> What I am trying to do is plug a vulnerability in the lsass service, which I
> think may be crashing everytime you start Windows. This is well known and
> causes the infinite loop that you are experiencing. So lets see how it goes.
>
> Chelsea
>
>
>
.

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