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  1. boweasel

    XP Pro Splash Screen Hang

    Okay, I am soooo incredibly confused at this point: 1. This is my wife's laptop, and she had it before we were married. It has never given her any trouble. It was purchased with XP alredy loaded, and she was given no recovery disks. 2. I always assumed it was XP Home Edition. Doesn't XP Pro...
  2. boweasel

    XP Pro Splash Screen Hang

    You could try a parallel install of XP Home and see if that runs on your machine." Won't I run into the problem of a product code? I only have disks for XP Home and the laptop runs XP Pro.
  3. boweasel

    XP Pro Splash Screen Hang

    NTOSKRNL.EXEBlack Screen Hang (after splash screen appears) (usually video driver) - Last Known Good Configuration - Safe Mode - install/reinstall latest version of video drivers." Thank you, but I've sort of already mentioned that I can't boot in safe mode.
  4. boweasel

    XP Pro Splash Screen Hang

    Averatec laptop running XP Pro SP3. Has been sluggish, but yesterday it just stopped booting at all. It hangs on the splash screen with the little dots moving from left to right. After 10 minutes the screen goes black and will no longer respond. All safe mode options eventually get me to a...
  5. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Run getdata back and point it to the c drive to start recovery analysis procedure.It has a fairly good wizard that will guide you through the setup." Yes, it works, and goombawaho I CAN see the data. I looks like most of the data is recoverable. The fly in the ointment is that I (perhaps...
  6. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Somehow, linney I managed to screw this up. When I first created the BartPE CD, my original Windows files were loaded into C:\pebuilder3110a\BartPE\. I had my output as the same thing, so the Windows files got overwritten. I reloaded XP Home into BartPE, and said the output should be in...
  7. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Couple questions: "During setup of BartPE you have the option to add other plugins, at that stage point to the downloaded plug in you want to include.Create the ISO and again burn it to a cd." I aleady have the getdataback_for_ntfs.cab downloaded to my desktop. When I open up PE Builder...
  8. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    FIXBOOT will only fix the BOOT FILES... not the MBR, for that to happen you need the FIXMBR command..." Ran that as well. Useless... Maybe I should try that suggestion from WAY back and get an IDE to USB converter.
  9. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    it sounds like the MBR and partition info may have been overwritten or corrupted..." I have already run a Fixboot from the repair console. It did no good. I also went into a Hitachi site and burnt a bootable Drive Fitness test. I ran a quicj test which gave me a "Failure code 0x73 -...
  10. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    goombawaho, Way back on April 22nd, you suggested I do a manual system restore with a BartPE CD. Since I now have a BartPE CD, how do I do that?
  11. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    This just gets worse... "The local disk is having a problem" - gee goombawaho, if my hard drive was NOT having problems, I'd hardly be using the BartPE product now, would I? As for your advice, when I go to a command prompt in Bart, and type in 'C:', I get the msg 'The volume does not contain...
  12. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Glad you got BartPE running, I hope it works for you like it does for me and others." Well linney, I dunno. I suppose I better do some investigation on this here BartPE CD. I mean it loaded, I got the BartPE desktop (no icons, mind you), with one option (Go). I tried accessing the A43 File...
  13. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    boweasel - first of all, it is never a good idea to jump a thread... if you have a problem PLEASE start your own thread, explaining exactly what the problem is, what you already have done in research to fix the problem, all relevant info as possible..." Ben I don't even know what the phrase...
  14. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    How did this get so complicated? I've heard for some time of the wonders of the BartPE disk, but apparently I'm considerably dumber than everyone on every forum who has praised the product. I have an icon on my desktop called PE Builder. I opened it up and it gives me a screen (that either I...
  15. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Okay, I gave a friend the link to the BartPE CD creation. She created it, and it does nothing. Apparently, all that's on the CD is a file called UBCD411.iso. I'm now typing this on a Vista PC with CD/DVD R/W capability. But I'm unclear how to proceed. The BartPE link mentions a necessity...
  16. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    I am (blush) writing this on an OLD Windows 98 PC with a CD-ROM drive that is non-functional. I don't really know how to determine what kind of hard drive I have, short of pulling it out. I suppose I could do that, and download any dianostic info the manufacturer might have to a floppy (yes...
  17. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    linney Could you give a liitle info on how BartPE works? Since my XP machine is currently inoperable, I would obviously need someone else to download and burn me a CD, but, assuming I can find someone to do just that, what would I do with the CD? Just pop it into my CD-ROM drive and the PC...
  18. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Well its been a couple of weeks and I finally got around to trying to boot with my XP Home CD... I hit 'R' to access Repair and at the DOS-like prompt I entered chkdsk /r. It stopped at 36% with the msg 'The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems'. Same results for...
  19. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Thanks. For some reason I was sure that I could not boot an XP Pro PC w/ an XP Home CD. I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back.
  20. boweasel

    Disk Read Error

    Yes, the hard drive IS being detected... And I do have an XP Home CD (don't ask...) I thought there might be some way to access Repair without an install CD, or to get to a screen where I might run chkdsk /r.

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