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Well, I'm happy to report that I've fixed the problem. Unfortunately, in retrospect, I still don't quite understand what the problem was. Here's what I know and I what I did. -Added Vista Ultimate to my raptor drive so I could dual boot with XP on my original HD. -Plugged in a logo LED light...

Serves me right for going in thinking anything would be simple or easy. Here's my new status: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1449080&page=1 Basically my Mobo seemed to be very fickle and it wouldn't give me a signal to the monitor once I uplugged my XP drive. So I plugged it back...

Hey guys, I'm having some serious boot issues with my machine. I have no idea what the root of the problem is but I'm inclined to think it's some silly little problem causing major issues. I was using XP on my C:\ drive and just installed a copy of Vista on one of my other 2 drives and all...

Thanks for all the good info guys. I'm going to try to do this tonight and hopefully will be back on soon to report my experience.

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. I guess my question now is, why do I need a boot mananger? If I do what Ben outlines, why can I not simply just tell BIOS to look for either my original drive first if I want XP or look for my newer storage drive first in order to boot Vista?

Okay, I know this might not be classical "dual booting" but I want to know if this makes sense. I have discs for XP Pro and Vista Ultimate. I have three internal hard drives. Two for storage and one with XP Pro on there right now. My plan is to install Vista one of my spare storage drives and...

Yeah, it's a pain with all that has to be reset / reinstalled / imported but it's the first clean install I've done in a LONG time, so I'll take the good with the bad...thing are running much, much smoother now in general.

Well, electronicsfreak, it did come to that. After adding a 2nd installation of Windows (XP Pro) on top of my infected one, I was able to troubleshoot the virus more effectively. I'm posting my results in hopes that anyone with a similar experience might be saved the trouble. The virus I got...

Alright, so I replaced mfc42.dll. The one I had in there was a slightly different size, so I figure, why not. Maybe it's infected or something. No changes in my overall problems. No better no worse. I gave the chkdsk /r command and restarted. Here's what I got: Stage 1 5796-5799 and...

Thanks so much man for going through all this with me, you're really my lifeline here. I ran the sfc /scannow in normal mode and the "checking system files" progress bar appeared, ran through to 100% and then closed. No report afterwards. I assume that's normal? And yet my system remains...

Okay, I fixed 3 of the 5. The first two, (R1 & R0) don't go away even after I tell HijackThis to fix them. When I rebooted into Safe Mode with the command prompt I got this: "Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of protected system files. The specified error codes is 0x000006ba...

Just a small preface to this: for some reason, Notepad and these web boxes are the ONLY places that "cut" and "paste" work for me...luckily. Word, the URL bar, files in windows - "paste" has been disabled in every other context. Also, as to this logfile, something that inevitably comes up is...

electronicsfreak - First, thank you for answering! I was actually running a corporate edition of Norton that I had been running at my University...it was last updated a month ago or so. I was actually about to scan the said file, when it started getting laggy and I realized I couldn't delete...

Well, you guys have helped me before when I'm all out of ideas, so once again I have to throw myself before your mercy... I downloaded this bogus .rar file sharing today's date and it wasn't long before my whole system was thrown into chaos. I immediately realized this thing was bogus and tried...

linney - great ideas that I had yet to try so thank you for the post, but just as a note to anyone who might have this issue in the future - I've inadvertently FIXED the problem by defragmenting my harddrive. I can't imagine why this worked and hadn't even intended it to, but after my monthly...

All good information...but still nothing works. I've tried switching power supply and it seems that no matter what number I allocate as the IRPStackSize value...the problem still persists!

Thanks for the suggestions guys... To clarify, the scanner I added had been installed in terms of drivers and software over a year ago, my brother and I often switch it back and forth between our rooms depending on who is working with it. It just so happened that I took control of it during the...

Welcome to file recovery hell, my friend. I had a similar issue (although not as bad as a total reformat) a few months ago with one of the PCs at work. Files which were supposed to be encrypted for security were actually encrypted to death and couldn't be recovered without software. During...

I know you guys are pretty tough to beat on this board, but I've got a problem that's driven myself and my techie brother up the wall. I'm running windows XP pro and two days ago I plug in my flash card reader (usb 2.0) to copy some digital photos I took earlier in the day. It read my card like...

After being rendered...