Anyone with ideas on this problem? It would be greatly appreciated.
I am running a Iwill KK266R mother board and I normally use two hard drives (IBM 60gb and 80 gb) running off the IDE RAID controller. I'm not using the controller for RAID, just for the ATA100 connection. I have a DVD drive and CD burner running on the two other IDE channels on the mobo. My operating system is Windoes XP Professional. Both of these drives are running NTFS as a file system.
I have a 30 gb hdd (also IBM) that has an old install of Windows 98SE on it. I wanted to free up some room on the largers drives and decided to reformat the 30gb since I haven't need the Win98 install for over a year. This drive's file system is FAT32.
I hooked up the 30gb drive and didn't realize it was on the same IDE channel as my boot drive, the 60gb. I also did not adjust the master/slave jumpers on either drive. When I booted the system, it started up under Win98.
I disconnected the 30gb and then tried to boot back into XP. No luck whatsoever. My PC runs through normal BIOS, detects the DVD and CD, the raid controllers sees both the 60gb and 80gb drives but then stalls out with a message (roughly) "Verifying DMI Pool Data...." and just hangs.
I don't get any messages about not being able to find a boot device like I would if there was no drive there, it just won't boot.
I then proceeded to troubleshoot pretty thoroughly last night. I disconnected every IDE device but my boot HDD and the thing still responds the same way. I tried changing the boot order, and put my XP install CD in the drive. When the time for booting from the CD passes I get a funky screen that reminds me of the Commodore 64 days. There are a variety of ACII character, some flashing, all in blocks of different colors. This also seems to lock the whole system up and it will not soft boot.
I've run recovery off of the XP CD and can access the 60gb drive from a command line but can only see the contents of the "Windows" directory. For this reason, I think that the drive is still "good" but something may have happened to the boot sectors.
The only good news is that most of my data is on the 80gb drive and it should still be intact. There are some files that I'd like to get off of the 60 gb drive though. I'm also hindered by a lack of people in the area with PC's running XP. I'd like to try to pull the needed files off the 60gb and save them on someone else's PC, reformat the drive, and copy them back. The only PC that I have access to with XP is a laptop and there's no easy way to connect the 3.5" drive to it.
I'd like to fix the problem and get the system up and running again but don't know what to do now. The only thing I can think of is to do an install of XP on the 30 gb drive, and then access the 60gb drive after XP is up and running.
If anyone has ANY ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am running a Iwill KK266R mother board and I normally use two hard drives (IBM 60gb and 80 gb) running off the IDE RAID controller. I'm not using the controller for RAID, just for the ATA100 connection. I have a DVD drive and CD burner running on the two other IDE channels on the mobo. My operating system is Windoes XP Professional. Both of these drives are running NTFS as a file system.
I have a 30 gb hdd (also IBM) that has an old install of Windows 98SE on it. I wanted to free up some room on the largers drives and decided to reformat the 30gb since I haven't need the Win98 install for over a year. This drive's file system is FAT32.
I hooked up the 30gb drive and didn't realize it was on the same IDE channel as my boot drive, the 60gb. I also did not adjust the master/slave jumpers on either drive. When I booted the system, it started up under Win98.
I disconnected the 30gb and then tried to boot back into XP. No luck whatsoever. My PC runs through normal BIOS, detects the DVD and CD, the raid controllers sees both the 60gb and 80gb drives but then stalls out with a message (roughly) "Verifying DMI Pool Data...." and just hangs.
I don't get any messages about not being able to find a boot device like I would if there was no drive there, it just won't boot.
I then proceeded to troubleshoot pretty thoroughly last night. I disconnected every IDE device but my boot HDD and the thing still responds the same way. I tried changing the boot order, and put my XP install CD in the drive. When the time for booting from the CD passes I get a funky screen that reminds me of the Commodore 64 days. There are a variety of ACII character, some flashing, all in blocks of different colors. This also seems to lock the whole system up and it will not soft boot.
I've run recovery off of the XP CD and can access the 60gb drive from a command line but can only see the contents of the "Windows" directory. For this reason, I think that the drive is still "good" but something may have happened to the boot sectors.
The only good news is that most of my data is on the 80gb drive and it should still be intact. There are some files that I'd like to get off of the 60 gb drive though. I'm also hindered by a lack of people in the area with PC's running XP. I'd like to try to pull the needed files off the 60gb and save them on someone else's PC, reformat the drive, and copy them back. The only PC that I have access to with XP is a laptop and there's no easy way to connect the 3.5" drive to it.
I'd like to fix the problem and get the system up and running again but don't know what to do now. The only thing I can think of is to do an install of XP on the 30 gb drive, and then access the 60gb drive after XP is up and running.
If anyone has ANY ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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