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read mem error, fresh hdd copy

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tag444

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Feb 26, 2005
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i've looked everywhere and nobody can give me an answer on this problem...
i bought a new hard drive (maxtor 120) and used maxblast 3 to format and create a new boot drive of my older hard drive with xp pro sp2 so i could remove the old hard drive and keep it incase i ever needed it again. anyways it all formats and copies fine, however when i install programs onto the new boot drive i get error messages similar to this:
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rundll.exe application error
the instruction at "0x5c0299b2" referenced at "0x000000 1c" The memory could not be "read"
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my first thought is that the hard drive is not accessing or saving in the system, because usually after that message the computer will reboot itself, run chkdsk and then this message pops up:
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there is an inconsistency in volmue "serial number" ...
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it continues checking files, then after it finds invalid files it truncates them, usually the files i just tried to install, this is not virus related, it's in the hard drive with reading/writing.

the hard drive is split into two volumes, one ~29gb fat32 and one ~90 ntfs and again the original drive has xp pro sp2 on it and was replaced after successful booting of new drive.

any help is very much appreciated, this has been going on for a week and nobody can give me any clear information. i've reformatted twice and same problem everytime, the original drive checks fine and was defragmented before copying and never had a problem like this. tia.
 
Try running powermax - Maxtor's diagnostic utility (get it from their website) to check out new drive - the obvious answer is new drive is defective as it all worked ok previously.

PS. How large was old drive and does your bios recognise the full size of the new drive or has maxblast used overlay software to get it working? I must admit I don't know if maxblast would clone a drive it it need to use overlay - but if it will, and has..)
 
Have you tried a new IDE cable (preferably 80-pin)? Is there anything else connected on the drive's IDE interface?
 
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