Hard drive problem
By harry_ndhuz
@harry_ndhuz (1273)
Indonesia
November 4, 2006 1:03am CST
My hard drive would not boot. i tried it as a master on a new computer and it said no operating system found. i hooked it up on the same computer as a slave and it is recognized and i can access files. this hard drive was upgraded from winme to xp , the only disk i have is the xp upgrade. is there something on my computer that is causing it not too boot, or is xp corrupt? if so where do i turn with my xp upgrade cd?
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4 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Nov 06
Since you can access the hard drive it is obviously partitioned properly and the hard drive is working, so the problem appears to be the boot files.
Try to repair the installation with your Windows XP disk, but not through Windows itself. Insert the disk and turn on the computer, the system should now boot from the CD and after transferring files to a temporary folder you will be asked if you wish to install Windows. You should get the option of repairing the current installation and this should rectify the boot files.
If this fails you may have to reinstall Windows, although since your copy is an upgrade this may mean installing your previous Windows version and then upgrading it again.
@seenoreen (559)
• Philippines
4 Nov 06
It seems that your upgrade from ME to XP was not successful. You can try rerunning the upgrade again but I don't think it will work. Worse comes to worse, just backup your files, format your computer then reinstall everything again.
This might be a stupid question but anyways, is the jumper of your hard drive set on master or slave?
