computers on crack, and I'm paying....

24th Jun 2006 09:16 #31

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Yup we had a guy looking for a job that was MCSE certified so we gave a computer and a power supply and asked him to change it, 20 minutes later still no progress. Also no job.

You or I and many of the people on here would first run chkdsk but others well..... if you mention chkdsk they say what's that?

strange things sometime work too, I have used the scanreg from win98 in the past to fix a bad win95 registry for example. I figured nothing to lose. It worked.

Worst customer I tried to fix it myself, that I have seen recently was a XP installation on a FAT32 partition. XP had problems so he ran the win98 scandisc and "fixed it". Yup he more or less ruined it.

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24th Jun 2006 13:29 #32

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Originally Posted by DVD_NDN

IVe got a really simple problem, that I am apperently too 'challenged' to repair.

I am running windows XP-home, kept the little bastard up to date with software and such... however, for one reason or another, the computer had an error... win32 registry files... asked me to slap in my windows xp CD. and hit "r" when the first screen came up.

So I did... and "r" didnt do anything, nor was it an option.
In fact, a whole new 'windows xp' has installed - which has allowed me to post this...

My secondary drive is no longer accessable... says it needs to reformat, doesnt read it as 300GBs anymore, now says its in fact a 128GB drive....
All my files that were on my primary (C) drive are fine... but 300GB's or so is a lot to part with.
So I'm asking you, any and all of you - where the hell did I go wrong?

When I boot up I now have the option of selecting my OS to start, the "new" one and the old one. when I select old, the same error pops up. 'windows cant start because a file is missing or currupt...' which brings me right back to putting in the CD and hitting "r"
which does nothing but install a new layer of windows.

so.
I know I'm probably not being clear, so ask me specifically about whatever doesnt make sense.. I will try to clear up anything I havent put out there already... you are afterall only trying to help, and I apreciate that.
thanks...

that's because all pre-Vista windows OSes have a bug in them that prevents them from seeing more than 137Gb (that's the official size limit, the real size limit is closer to 128Gb, also despite what anyone tells you, the service packs don't help.)

what you need to do is download maxtor's BigDriveEnabler utility (even if the drives aren't maxtors) and install that prior to connecting your 300GB hdd.

now for some bad news, as soon as you tried to access the 300GB hdd from within XP you corrupted the file system beyond repair, all the data that was on their is lost.

what happens is windows can't see past the 128Gb it thinks the hdd is and thus starts it's reads/writes back at sector 0 (the start of the hdd), thus overwriting the MFT and any data that happened to reside in the locations it tried to access.

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27th Jun 2006 15:22 #33

Nelson37

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Bullshit. The service pack fixes it. I am right now looking at 250 gig of video on a 400 gig drive using XP pro. Won't recognize properly on a new install, I have the original XP installation disk. Install the service packs, voila, 400 GB drive.

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27th Jun 2006 15:38 #34

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