thecoolnessrune
Diamond Member
Well the title sounded nice. 😀 Anyways I seriously screwed my computer up. I was uninstalling linux from my second hard drive, and then reformatting my second hard drive to ntfs. To my stupidness I used the darn Windows XP disc to reformat so it started to install windows XP. I removed the disc as it prompted, then I used DBAN to erase the second drive again. But to my horror the boot file was already written to! So I attempted FIXBOOT and FIXMBR. Neither got rid of it. SO I did a super windows repair. This is where it uninstalls windows, then reinstalls it, without messing with partitions or the data on your hard drive. But now I have three Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on the screen! If I select the first one the computer it just reboots right then and there and does nothing. If I select the second one, it gets all the way to the welcome screen then freezes. If I select the third one I get:
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows Documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
I HAVE to have what is on my hard drive. I couldn't back it up because I have 138GB of stuff on there that is important. I put the hard drive in my second computer, and all my files are still there and working. But 1. my second computer doesn't have the space to backup mine (I have a 160 and the other has a 120) 2. Since my second comp only has a CD-RW rather then a DVDRW I don't even have enough CDRW's to make the difference. 3. Even if I could backup, there is no way I would get everything, so I would still be at a loss. Is there any way to save the installation?
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows Documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
I HAVE to have what is on my hard drive. I couldn't back it up because I have 138GB of stuff on there that is important. I put the hard drive in my second computer, and all my files are still there and working. But 1. my second computer doesn't have the space to backup mine (I have a 160 and the other has a 120) 2. Since my second comp only has a CD-RW rather then a DVDRW I don't even have enough CDRW's to make the difference. 3. Even if I could backup, there is no way I would get everything, so I would still be at a loss. Is there any way to save the installation?
