keeps rebooting,hard drive,running XP home,that won’t boot to GUI

[jazzbo]

I have a hard drive,running XP home,that won’t boot to GUI.Keeps rebooting,I tried “fixmbr” but still reboots. Get this error” Pri master HD SMART status bad,backup and replace”

Tried R restore XP,but cant remember admin password

What started this was,I was converting audio files from CD to real player MP3s
Got a freeze up and this error
"windows delayed write failed" windows/system32\config\syEventEVT., failure computer hardware or network,

I am able to boot from a live Knoppix linux CD,how can I use linux to recover,run utiliies on this drive so it boots in XP?

 

[wolluf]

'Pri master HD SMART status bad,backup and replace' - follow this advice!

 

[jazzbo]

What if I can attach a new drive as slave,boot from dos, using drive copy or driveworks software pgm , to copy “bad” drive to new? Would that copy bad sectors also ,defeating the purpose? So I’d end up with TWO bad drives?

 

[grwingTheft]

JAZZBO, check and disable (=0) the "large system cashe" in Windows registry, and then disable the "allow index writting ..." in c: -> properties ...
(or the "..delayed write fail" will appears egain. (Especially if you have tthe an ATI video card (remove the last catalysts)

Hope this help, a

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

GRwingTheft:

If you read the question, they can't get into Windows due to a hard-drive failure thus your "fix" is useless to them at this point !!!!

Jazzbo:

You would be smarter installing the new drive as "Master" and installing XP on it.. Then, slave the bad drive and move your files/folders, pics, docs, etc over..

Programs can be re-installed !!

Murray