Hard Drive Problem...

[FungFuBilly]

hey dudes, got a lil problem here... recently windows xp froze, which usually isnt too much a problem but this time it messed something up real bad. when i tried to reboot it kept crashing when getting to the windows xp loading screen. so i popped in boot disk and ran scan disk from there, it found lots of problems and a ton of cross linked files. it also reported i had long file name errors which it couldnt fix, but windows scandisk could. so i hooked up my old (very old) drive and installed win98 on it and ran scandisk on my other drive. it reported it fixed all the problems.

so i went to reinstall windows xp, but it said it couldnt because the "partition is either too full, damaged, not formatted...." and shows the partition as not formatted in the info below that message. so i looked at it in win98 again, and in explorer it shows up twice (d: , e🙂. i checked it out in partition magic 8 and it shows up as using fat32x.

any ideas on whats going on? i cant format since i have data on the drive that i want to keep and dont have anywhere to back it up to. any help would be appriciated.:frown:

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Are you overclocking? Any reason you ran scandisk instead of running chkdsk from the recovery console? You can boot off the XP CD and hit "R" when given the choice, to get to the recovery console, and from there run chkdsk /P and if needed fixboot and fixMBR. Did you eliminate the possibility of a virus causing the trouble? You may also want to download and run the diagnostic utility ffor your harddrive to see if it's problematic.

 

[Keltron]

do you hve the right devider ratio in bios (FSB:RAM😛CI) ?