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XP_RObin · 07-28-2003, 05:11 PM

Hi, I'm a newbie, but this forum has been so helpful in the past(i never had a unique problem before), that I'm hoping someone out there can help me.

I just got a new p4 2.2 GHz Dell with XP Pro and am *trying* to get my new Maxtor 80GHz HD to boot and run on its own, without the HD that came all set-up with it. Note that I have a 20G NTFS partition as boot, and (2) 60G partitions as fat32.
I guess since I added it before removing the Western Dig HD that came with it, my system thinks itself to be a multiboot(and i don't care)

I keep running into problems and last Thursday thought I had worked through them all with help from reading this forum(missing hal.dll, ntldr missing, etc). So in summary, the computer worked fine for 3 days and the ability to boot died without changing a thing yesterday.(missing hal.dll and then when do a bootcfg /rebuild, there are no boot something--was it sectors? devices? something like that.

After running my 4th chkdsk /p, it finally found something-- i don't know what-- and so I ran fixmbr, fixboot and bootcfg /rebuild added it to the boot.ini file. So, at this point I'm happily choosing
to boot this option and I'm told:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \found.000\dir000.chk\system32\config\system
and that I can atttempt to repair it using the orig setup CD rom.

Ok. great---i can get into recovery mode, but what is my command????

Thanks for any words of wisdom!
Robin

p.s. don't know if it matters: If i add the western dig HD as a slave and boot off that, all my files on the Maxtor are available---nothing seems to be missing .

p.p.s.is it true that if master and slave hard drives are on the same IDE cable and are different speeds, they run at the same slower speed? (that's whay i thought to not use my slower 40G HD)

07-28-2003, 05:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
XP_RObin Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: MA Posts: 1	See today's most popular deals at » repair a found boot sector? Hi, I'm a newbie, but this forum has been so helpful in the past(i never had a unique problem before), that I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I just got a new p4 2.2 GHz Dell with XP Pro and am trying to get my new Maxtor 80GHz HD to boot and run on its own, without the HD that came all set-up with it. Note that I have a 20G NTFS partition as boot, and (2) 60G partitions as fat32. I guess since I added it before removing the Western Dig HD that came with it, my system thinks itself to be a multiboot(and i don't care) I keep running into problems and last Thursday thought I had worked through them all with help from reading this forum(missing hal.dll, ntldr missing, etc). So in summary, the computer worked fine for 3 days and the ability to boot died without changing a thing yesterday.(missing hal.dll and then when do a bootcfg /rebuild, there are no boot something--was it sectors? devices? something like that. After running my 4th chkdsk /p, it finally found something-- i don't know what-- and so I ran fixmbr, fixboot and bootcfg /rebuild added it to the boot.ini file. So, at this point I'm happily choosing to boot this option and I'm told: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \found.000\dir000.chk\system32\config\system and that I can atttempt to repair it using the orig setup CD rom. Ok. great---i can get into recovery mode, but what is my command???? Thanks for any words of wisdom! Robin p.s. don't know if it matters: If i add the western dig HD as a slave and boot off that, all my files on the Maxtor are available---nothing seems to be missing . p.p.s.is it true that if master and slave hard drives are on the same IDE cable and are different speeds, they run at the same slower speed? (that's whay i thought to not use my slower 40G HD)