Sorry about the long post, but please give it a read. I really appreciate any help you guys can provide.
So, here's what happened. I was just working in Windows and my computer froze, so I hit the reset button. Upon rebooting, everything was normal until the point where I'm supposed to get the WinXP welcome screen (the screen right after the splash screen). Instead of getting the welcome screen, I just got a black screen. I tried different things, but none worked, so I decided to try and reinstall Windows. Everything was normal until the Windows setup detected my Western Digital hard drive (I use it as a secondary storage drive). The WD was detected and the reported capacity was correct, but the setup program just froze, so I knew the culprit of my problems was the WD. To confirm this, I unplugged the IDE cable from the drive, rebooted, and sure enough, Windows fired right back up normally. At first I thought the drive was dead, but now I'm pretty confident that it's not because the drive is still detected correctly in the BIOS and I'm even able to work with it in DOS and Norton Ghost. It just seems that Windows has a problem with it. I can't even boot into Safe Mode. I figured that I could just delete the partitions on the drive but seeing as how the WindowsXP setup program freezes before I get to that point, I don't see how I could. I guess I could try FDISK.
Anyone have any "non partition deleting ideas" that I should try?
Thanks,
Shooters
So, here's what happened. I was just working in Windows and my computer froze, so I hit the reset button. Upon rebooting, everything was normal until the point where I'm supposed to get the WinXP welcome screen (the screen right after the splash screen). Instead of getting the welcome screen, I just got a black screen. I tried different things, but none worked, so I decided to try and reinstall Windows. Everything was normal until the Windows setup detected my Western Digital hard drive (I use it as a secondary storage drive). The WD was detected and the reported capacity was correct, but the setup program just froze, so I knew the culprit of my problems was the WD. To confirm this, I unplugged the IDE cable from the drive, rebooted, and sure enough, Windows fired right back up normally. At first I thought the drive was dead, but now I'm pretty confident that it's not because the drive is still detected correctly in the BIOS and I'm even able to work with it in DOS and Norton Ghost. It just seems that Windows has a problem with it. I can't even boot into Safe Mode. I figured that I could just delete the partitions on the drive but seeing as how the WindowsXP setup program freezes before I get to that point, I don't see how I could. I guess I could try FDISK.
Anyone have any "non partition deleting ideas" that I should try?
Thanks,
Shooters
