readyrover
Junior Member
I have posted this in the "Computer Help" section, but maybe it goes here better? Any help appreciated..
System info here:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3223657
Lanyap...still at it...no joy, yet.
Wrote zeroes to both drives..I'm using "IDE" option in BIOS as opposed to ahci or raid...tried to load raid drivers..no floppy on the system but had drivers on cd...pressed F6...and install continued for another minute then hung up.
Oh, and only using one drive now..the sys has two "cd" drives..one a dvd/cd on the primary second channel and the other the secondary on the second channel..have disabled the "hot swap" bay...also, cleared cmos and tried everything from basic default to disabling lan, audio, etc...selected "use both" for pata/sata in BIOS...have tried a-b with "combined" and "enhanced" for SATA option...depending on which selections, setup hangs up either at Kernel Debugger, Loading Keyboard driver or scsi interface...
I am assuming video card is okay because the owner reported no video probs and everything is displaying nicely...
Tried Win98se install...using a small partition...nogo so reformatted. ..fdisk..wrote zeroes with WD disk tool..tried loading Ubuntu (which I know NOTHING about) and that install stopped with failure to mount cd and then a host of other errors...would have taken me days to learn Linux from scratch so I nixxed that idea (although later I will begin that learning curve for real) ... kind of grasping at straws here... if I can find a bios update I will attempt to re-flash and see if that affects anything positively...
The reason I am here with blank hard drives was due to a nasty virus that kept copying itself across the 6 partitions on the 2 raid disks (at least it seemed that way because everytime I tried to recover the system from it's own hard drive the virus was there again) and sadly the owner mixed up their cds and only had the restore cds from a different system altogether. I may look for recovery media on ebay or somewhere, but I doubt I'll find it.
Thanks for your help...still listening for suggestions.
The short skinny is:
1) Had virus that kept replicating itself so wiped both raid drives clean
2) Windows XP hangs up during fresh install..upgrade with supported upgrade media verified..(WIN 98 SE)
System info:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3223657
System drivers must have Win XP installed first. No Floppy drive on system.
Thanks.
System info here:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3223657
Lanyap...still at it...no joy, yet.
Wrote zeroes to both drives..I'm using "IDE" option in BIOS as opposed to ahci or raid...tried to load raid drivers..no floppy on the system but had drivers on cd...pressed F6...and install continued for another minute then hung up.
Oh, and only using one drive now..the sys has two "cd" drives..one a dvd/cd on the primary second channel and the other the secondary on the second channel..have disabled the "hot swap" bay...also, cleared cmos and tried everything from basic default to disabling lan, audio, etc...selected "use both" for pata/sata in BIOS...have tried a-b with "combined" and "enhanced" for SATA option...depending on which selections, setup hangs up either at Kernel Debugger, Loading Keyboard driver or scsi interface...
I am assuming video card is okay because the owner reported no video probs and everything is displaying nicely...
Tried Win98se install...using a small partition...nogo so reformatted. ..fdisk..wrote zeroes with WD disk tool..tried loading Ubuntu (which I know NOTHING about) and that install stopped with failure to mount cd and then a host of other errors...would have taken me days to learn Linux from scratch so I nixxed that idea (although later I will begin that learning curve for real) ... kind of grasping at straws here... if I can find a bios update I will attempt to re-flash and see if that affects anything positively...
The reason I am here with blank hard drives was due to a nasty virus that kept copying itself across the 6 partitions on the 2 raid disks (at least it seemed that way because everytime I tried to recover the system from it's own hard drive the virus was there again) and sadly the owner mixed up their cds and only had the restore cds from a different system altogether. I may look for recovery media on ebay or somewhere, but I doubt I'll find it.
Thanks for your help...still listening for suggestions.
The short skinny is:
1) Had virus that kept replicating itself so wiped both raid drives clean
2) Windows XP hangs up during fresh install..upgrade with supported upgrade media verified..(WIN 98 SE)
System info:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3223657
System drivers must have Win XP installed first. No Floppy drive on system.
Thanks.
