Ok Background
the drive was working fine, it was the OS that has been giving trouble. it was 98 upgraded to XP 2 weeks ago, I had all the servicepacks and updates, and it was buggy.
Norton wouldnt run or load, so I changed some registry keys following sysmantec's advice, and norton finally un-installed, but wouldnt relinstall. then I suddenly (2 weeks later) couldnt play any movies, or java scripts
Ran SVG virus scan, norton online scan, and Adaware, clean
so I reformatted today, but it wouldnt do a low format, so i went with quick format instead. then when loading XP pro from an original disk, errors start popping up. windows installer cant find a whole bunch of files, so i clicked to skip them. and when XP boots, it looks just like 98! (grey, square windows), I noticed immidiatley that it seemed like eveything was barebones (ie: in display properties, ther were only 4 backgrounds, 3 were called tip and all had the little lightbulb, but different size pictures, all the normal winXP backdrops are gone)
so I quickly rebooted and tried another reformat, only to be told again that it failed (sd check to see that there is enough space on the drive. so again I quick format. this time when windows begins to install it crashes and goes to a blue warning screen. which recommends diabling drivers if vid card was changed, or booting in safe mode, then tring again. no luck same thing every time,
so I got Powmax from maxtor (it an old 13.7G maxtor drive) ran the test, and the drive passes, reformated with "low format"
reboot, try to load XP from disk, and get the blue error screen again.
I know this might be addressable in OS forum, but the error screens indicate it is probly hardware related.
system
P3 450 (gateway)
Voodoo 3000
SB live
512PC100RAM 256+128+128
This system has been operational for a long time, it just started acting funny when i did the upgrade from 98SE to XP pro.
Any Ideas? What to do? Reformat again? Repair install?
the drive was working fine, it was the OS that has been giving trouble. it was 98 upgraded to XP 2 weeks ago, I had all the servicepacks and updates, and it was buggy.
Norton wouldnt run or load, so I changed some registry keys following sysmantec's advice, and norton finally un-installed, but wouldnt relinstall. then I suddenly (2 weeks later) couldnt play any movies, or java scripts
Ran SVG virus scan, norton online scan, and Adaware, clean
so I reformatted today, but it wouldnt do a low format, so i went with quick format instead. then when loading XP pro from an original disk, errors start popping up. windows installer cant find a whole bunch of files, so i clicked to skip them. and when XP boots, it looks just like 98! (grey, square windows), I noticed immidiatley that it seemed like eveything was barebones (ie: in display properties, ther were only 4 backgrounds, 3 were called tip and all had the little lightbulb, but different size pictures, all the normal winXP backdrops are gone)
so I quickly rebooted and tried another reformat, only to be told again that it failed (sd check to see that there is enough space on the drive. so again I quick format. this time when windows begins to install it crashes and goes to a blue warning screen. which recommends diabling drivers if vid card was changed, or booting in safe mode, then tring again. no luck same thing every time,
so I got Powmax from maxtor (it an old 13.7G maxtor drive) ran the test, and the drive passes, reformated with "low format"
reboot, try to load XP from disk, and get the blue error screen again.
I know this might be addressable in OS forum, but the error screens indicate it is probly hardware related.
system
P3 450 (gateway)
Voodoo 3000
SB live
512PC100RAM 256+128+128
This system has been operational for a long time, it just started acting funny when i did the upgrade from 98SE to XP pro.
Any Ideas? What to do? Reformat again? Repair install?
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