I've been having some computer troubles lately.
After several hours of fixing and running chkdsk several times and fixing errors, I've found that I can boot my computer if I have only of my two hdd's connected.
While only one hdd is connected then windows boots normally however as soon as I plug in my second hard-drive it won't boot into windows -> on startup the bios fires, the quick winxp bar goes across the screen then the windows xp loading screen with the scrolling blue bar appears, but after that screen the computer freezes in the one second between the loading screen and getting a mouse cursor (stays on the black screen).
With the 2nd hdd connected I can't boot into safe mode either.
I haven't been able to test the 2nd hdd on another computer but if I start from the winxp cd it recognises it. I don't really think that the 2nd hdd is stuffed... it's a relatively new 80GB seagate. I need the computer working perfectly by Friday and I'm willing to format but I'm wondering if it would really fix it.
It's odd, the thing just freezes one day and won't start. Don't you just love computers when they stop working for no apparent reason!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Patrick
After several hours of fixing and running chkdsk several times and fixing errors, I've found that I can boot my computer if I have only of my two hdd's connected.
While only one hdd is connected then windows boots normally however as soon as I plug in my second hard-drive it won't boot into windows -> on startup the bios fires, the quick winxp bar goes across the screen then the windows xp loading screen with the scrolling blue bar appears, but after that screen the computer freezes in the one second between the loading screen and getting a mouse cursor (stays on the black screen).
With the 2nd hdd connected I can't boot into safe mode either.
I haven't been able to test the 2nd hdd on another computer but if I start from the winxp cd it recognises it. I don't really think that the 2nd hdd is stuffed... it's a relatively new 80GB seagate. I need the computer working perfectly by Friday and I'm willing to format but I'm wondering if it would really fix it.
It's odd, the thing just freezes one day and won't start. Don't you just love computers when they stop working for no apparent reason!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Patrick