Re: Re-installation problems
- From: olliejk <olliejk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:14:00 -0700
Well other than the windows utility I did recently check with a Maxtor
Utility and the HD was fine. To be honest, though, I've long wondered about
either the HD itself or the HD controller. Even though it’s passed checks
throughout its life it always behaved oddly. Even when it was working I would
have occasional cold boot problems (i.e. it would hang or crash If I was
starting it when it had been off for a while, restarts & reboots always
worked fine). Since different utilities have been clearing the HD of issues I
have to wonder if there is a hardware problem w/ the HD controller.
Either way, though, I still want to know if there is a KNOWN failure mode
with SP and this continues cycle of rebooting on log in.
"JS" wrote:
I'd check the hard drives for problems and save yourself some effort if the.
drive is defective.
Disk Diagnostic Utilities from:
Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3
Seagate's SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
Maxtor's (Now Seagate) PowerMax
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/
Fujitsu's Utilities
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/utilities.html
Samsung's Disk manager software
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm
Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
JS
"olliejk" <olliejk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had a problem with a corrupt system file that i could not repair (many
methods attempted including using systems restore from a command line and
using system.sav). I finally gave up. I did let the windows HD utility
(sorry
forgot the name right now) check the HD and it was fine. After connecting
the
HD to another machine and spending 1.5 days extracting every file I could
I
started the long and painful process of re-installing the operating
system. I
got the OS (XP Home) on with some minor problems. First time for some
reason
it kept having trouble "copying files during the installation.lots of
them.
It did seem to work, though, on the 2nd time through.
Once the OS went on, I installed all the hardware drivers (which came w/
my
mobo). Finally I started installing the XP Home updates. After installing
SP2
things got REALLY bad. I could not log in anymore. I would get the Windows
"Splash" page and my machine would reboot itself. I tried every form there
is
of safe mode. Using system restore from a command prompt wasn't an option
since any time I got to where the actual OS was booted to a point of being
able to interact w/ it the system would reboot. I am now re-re-installing
the
OS. Only difference is last time I did not re-format (I just let it
delete)
and this time I am reformatting it.
Now the HD isn't a RAID HD, but there are various raid mode options in the
Bios for the Sata & Sata2 controllers, so I went ahead and installed the
Raid
drivers. I figures what could it hurt? Now I'm wondering if the drivers
sometimes "confused" either the bios or the OS into thinking it WAS a raid
system since the option now existed. This time I'm leaving the Raid
drivers
OFF to see if that helps.
Basically I'm worried about getting to the point where I put SP2 back on.
I've been up to ~3am every night working on this (& going to work &
refinancing the house & being a dad & husband) and am gonna go nuts if I
get
to the SP2 level and face this again.
Are there any known issues with SP2 relating to this reboot issue which I
should watch out for (such as install a patch somehow)
Mobo is an ASRock 939Dual Sata2
Processor is AMD Athlon X2 3800+
HD is Maxtor 160GB Sata2
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