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Originally posted by John Prophet
Its not anything like an SATA or Raid drive is it? or, are you using an ATA 133 pci controller card? |
No, just IDE.
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Originally posted by MrNiceGuy77
You said the drive is cut in 2 NTFS partitions... What formatting software did you use? |
I know you're going to make fun of me for this, but I used Maxtor's Maxblast 3 utility....and YES, I know I have a Hitachi hard drive. But that program is pretty straight-forward and treats all hard drives the same (apparnetly). I've used that program on a few diferent brand hard drives and I've never had a problem like this. And keep in mind, the Maxblast3 partitioning software worked just fine with the Hitachi drive on the other system (which don't forget, has the same motherboard as the 'problem' system).
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Originally posted by TM12
What OS were you using before? The same XP disk? |
There was no other OS than WinXP Pro on the hard drive.
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| I'm also kind of interested in knowing how you formatted the partitions to NTFS without using the XP disk. Did you set the boot partition to "Active". |
Like I said, I initially used Maxblast3 for partitioning. And yeah, I set it to ACTIVE.
....Well here's the latest update. I'm typing to you guys on the problem computer.....so I actually got it to work with some trickery, unfortunately. What I ended up doing was put the hard drive in the WORKING system, loaded up the first sequence of XP onto the hard drive on (the DOS-looking blue screen that I was having initial problems with....and yeah, it got past the part where it was initially hanging on the problem computer). And then when it prompted to reset the computer (the screen with the 15 second countdown bar), I turned off the system, swapped the hard drive back into the problem system, and continued to load Windows from there. And everything was looking just fine....
*UNTIL...*
When I was doing the Windows update and downloading SP1, it eventually prompted me to restart the computer. So like normal, that's what I did. Then it got to black "scrolling bar" WinXP screen (the 'splash screen', is it called?)....and it SAT there for 30 minutes. At first I said, "Maybe there's lots of changes SP1 had to make, so I'll just let it think". Eventually it turned on and was working like a normal system. So right then after it fully loaded up and sat there for a couple minutes, I restarted the computer again, hoping that I wouldn't have to wait another 30 minutes...but there it sat. 30 minutes past by and I got pissed off and turned the computer off. Then I chose "Last known Good Configuration", and it sat there for only about 5-6 minutes until it loaded up. I've since restarted like this (because of updating drivers and programs and such) about 2-3 times now. This last time I restarted, the computer got to the "Welcome" screen, and automatically reset itself. So I just left it alone to see if it will boot on it's own (without having to chose "last known good configuration"). It loaded up in less than 2 minutes (which is still a long time, standardly I guess), but now my GUI looks like Windows 2000, and I don't even have the OPTION to switch the GUI back to the traditional Win XP look. .....So FrEaKiNg STRANGE....
Anyway, that's where we stand right now. I'm just so pissed off right now. If someone reccomends hitting it with a sledge hammer to fix the problem, I just might be tempted to do that >:(
Why does it hang like that? That's actually a seprate question I've been wanting to ask. I was working on this lady's computer a few months back, and it took upwards of 2 days to get her computer to load. I've seen problems like this with WinXP in other cases, too. What traditionally causes this severe waiting game?
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