Re: Failure during repair instalation
- From: Stephen <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:22:02 -0700
you should also check your motherboard for any swollen capacitors (rounded
tops). if they are, your motherboard is going bad... contact the manufacturer.
"BrendanK" wrote:
Hmm ... No, that's prety much exactly what I tried. The snag arose at step.
15. I tried this several times. One time the system hung at the Press any
key to reboot screen, and trying to reboot with the CD removed simply
resulted in a message that the system couldn't boot at all. Another time the
system simply went right into the CD bootup.
"DL" wrote:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
"BrendanK" <BrendanK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, my brother is curently using an old computer that was once my
father's.
It's been running windows XP SP2 for some time. Thing is, this morning it
suddenly stopped working and on rebooting couldn't find the copy of
windows
on the hard drive.
I tried using the windows disk to do a repair instilation of Windows, but
the option wasn't available. Then I used the recovery console to try
repairing the bootdata, it neither fixed the problem, nor made the Repair
instilation available. At this point, I picked up a replacement hard
drive
and tried reinstalling Windows on it with the system disks (The computer
was
a build).
Initially there was some problems due to the KVM switch my brother was
routing his keyboard through, but plugging the keyboard directly into the
system fixed that problem and let me set windows to install on the new
drive.
It formatted the drive, went through the full install bit, rebooted with
the
mention that it would continue the instilation on rebooting, but instead
it
booted from the disk and started over. Pulling the windows disk from the
optical drive and rebooting brought up a message that the system couldn't
find a boot device.
Anyways, I loaded the old hard drive into an external drive enclosure, and
read it without troubles.
Any thoughts on where I might look to identify the problem so I can fix
it?
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