Re: Removing WinXP OS from a Hard Drive
- From: "Alan" <alanguard2004-email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:46:49 +0100
"Ravenhurst" <Ravenhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How can a WinXP full clean install be removed from a hard drive so thedrive
can be reformatted with a Win98SE startup disk so Win98SE can be installedwant
instead ? I have ruined an entire hard drive attempting this and do not
to repeat the mistake.a
Description : Windows XP Home SP2 while reliable after install becomes
corrupted after several months of use causing BSOD crashes. Attempting a
repair of the WinXP OS simply allows the OS to boot again and operate but
does not fix what is causing these crashes which continue to occur. It has
been my experience with all the Win OS's I have used that they are all
unreliable in this same fashion. It is either they begin to run slowly or
they begin crashing more and more frequently. To this day I have never had
Win OS stay reliable for more than about 1 year without requiring a fullthis
re-installation to correct these problems. With Win98 and earlier OS's
was not a big issue as long as data was kept seperate from the boot drive,as
the boot partition could be wiped clean and reformatted, then the OS andapps
re-installed. After several months of use from a new install WinXP SP2began
crashing more and more frequently. I attempted this same method ofAbout a
reformatting the boot partition and re-installing WinXP and this ruined a
near new 80 GB HDD which then would no longer report its correct size no
matter how I tried to fix it. I had to buy a new HDD and installed Win XP
Home SP2 fresh for the second time and all was back to working order.
month ago the problems began occurring again with crashes starting andwill
occurring more frequently until today the OS has become so unstable it
not run properly anymore. I run a business of audio recording from this4-6
computer and I am simply sick of this. I currently have a clients entire
project on this same HDD, but different partition than the boot partition,
and while I have backed up the data I cannot afford the down time every
months in fixing this problem, reactivating the OS by phone, replacingparts
unneccessarily to try and find the problem, etc. This is an extremenuisance
! While Win XP may be faster than Win98SE, with WIN98SE I can wipe a bootthat
partition, reinstall Win98SE and applications, and be back in business in
about two hours.
Error Messages : I have exhausted myself online searching for an answer to
why this occurs and have found no solutions. It seems an important fact
from a clean install everything works perfectly for months without errors.great
Without any user changes to the system, no new software installation, etc.
these problems begin to occur. This first begins as a crash once in a
while ending with an IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message. This hasoccurred
while using Cool Edit Pro which is a multitrack audio program, playing theThese
game Empire Earth, and while reading/writing a DVD using DVD software.
crashes become more frequent over a period of months until other errorsbegin
occurring such as BAD_POOL_HEADER and PFN_LIST_CORRUPT where eventuallythe
OS becomes too unstable to run properly. Many posts suggest the cause ofdefective
these error messages are heat-related issues, failed RAM memory,
hard drives, corrupted drivers, etc. where I find this not to be the caseat
all.HyperX
I have a non-proprietary P4 3GHZ 2mb L2 on ABIT MGuru board with 1 GB
DDR400 RAM the whole system less than 1 year old. It is dusted regularly,two
there are working fans everywhere on near everything, even the supply has
fans. I feel no excessive heat on any component and the ABIT utilityreports
temps are as they should be. I have tested the RAM using the Memtest86hard
utility and there were no errors in 10 test passes. I have scanned the
drive and the files on the drive and have found no problems. Mostimportantly
this system has never been setup to connect to the internet and has onlyhad
licensed software installed on it, no downloaded software in otherwords,no
viruses, no tampering.this
Considering this is not a hardware issue or heat issue, it seems to me
leaves two possible culprits. Either WinXP itself becomes corrupted as Ithe
expect is the case, or a device driver becomes corrupted, in which case I
would have to wonder why that is unless it is WinXP which is corrupting
driver. While the only unsigned device driver on this system is the onefor
my professional audio card made by M-Audio, the fact that it is anunsigned
driver seems irrelevant to it being the culprit of these problems as itnuisance
operates perfectly when installed after a fresh WinXP install.
I am left to believe at this point that WinXP in its currently build has
failure issues possibly worse then Win98SE and certainly more of a
to strat fresh again with an install. I hope it will not take mypurchasing a
whole new hard drive to return to Win98SE and abandon use of XP.
What manufacturer of hard drive do you have? If it is Seagate, go to the
support web site and down load Disc Wizard starter edition. These run on two
floppys' and run from boot. With this software you should be able to zero
fill the entire drive/reformat for 98 or XP independent of Windows. (A
complete zero fill of the entire drive we show up if you have any hard drive
problems or not). If you don't have Seagate then my understanding that you
may be able to use this software anyway as it recognises other manufacturers
drives or download then own version.
Alan
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