- Aug 25, 2001
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Hi Guys,
I'm having problems with a computer and I'm trying to determine if the hard drive is failing. I ran WD's diagnostic utilities (quick and full scans) and the test came back without any errors, yet I'm still having problems that seem like they could be hard drive related.
These are the problems I'm having:
- A month ago, the registry was corrupt and the system would not boot. I used BartPE to copy / paste some registry backups from Window's System Restore directory (/_restore/) into /windows/system32/config. That fixed the problem and the computer booted fine. After I finished, I went into the Windows Recovery Console and ran chkdsk and followed up with "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Everything was working fine.
- Now, last week I turned on the computer and received a boot disk error, where the system could not find the operating system. I turned off the computer and rebooted and the system worked again.
- Now, the system locks up during bootup... just a black screen. When I go into safe mode, the system still halts last loading "mup.sys". I ran "chkdsk /r" in the recovery console, rebooted, and the system still locks up.
It seems like this computer is having some file integrity issues. What would cause this? I'm pretty sure I can fix it, but I'm afraid when I do, the problems will happen again, which is why I want to find the root of the problem. Is it the hard drive? Can it be the motherboard? Do SATA drives have file issues I don't know about?
The computer is an HP a1600n with a 200GB SATA hard drive running Windows XP.
Any help/ideas would are appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew
I'm having problems with a computer and I'm trying to determine if the hard drive is failing. I ran WD's diagnostic utilities (quick and full scans) and the test came back without any errors, yet I'm still having problems that seem like they could be hard drive related.
These are the problems I'm having:
- A month ago, the registry was corrupt and the system would not boot. I used BartPE to copy / paste some registry backups from Window's System Restore directory (/_restore/) into /windows/system32/config. That fixed the problem and the computer booted fine. After I finished, I went into the Windows Recovery Console and ran chkdsk and followed up with "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Everything was working fine.
- Now, last week I turned on the computer and received a boot disk error, where the system could not find the operating system. I turned off the computer and rebooted and the system worked again.
- Now, the system locks up during bootup... just a black screen. When I go into safe mode, the system still halts last loading "mup.sys". I ran "chkdsk /r" in the recovery console, rebooted, and the system still locks up.
It seems like this computer is having some file integrity issues. What would cause this? I'm pretty sure I can fix it, but I'm afraid when I do, the problems will happen again, which is why I want to find the root of the problem. Is it the hard drive? Can it be the motherboard? Do SATA drives have file issues I don't know about?
The computer is an HP a1600n with a 200GB SATA hard drive running Windows XP.
Any help/ideas would are appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew