WinXP crash = no reboot or restore!!!

[JBELL]

I have a fairly new Maxtor ata133 60GB HDD

I did a clean install of WinXP that crashed so I did a restore - now after my rig goes through POST I get this:



Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:
No Emulation

Press any key to boot from CD.....
A disk read error ocurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart



If I force to boot from CD-ROM it start search of hardware and goes to black screen ands sit there.

[Kosmos]

why don't u just reformat and reinstall? just get some hd tool which whipes the first bytes on the hd

[JBELL]

OK UPDATE

Dropped drive into 2K PRO rig and read DIRs fine so I copied over vital info and formatted drive - got XP installing now.

[Nohto]

JBELL here is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128 sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE drives.
ZAP (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe) For future use. It is especially useful when you take a drive out of a array and forgot to delete the array before trying to install it in a different application.

[JBELL]

Originally posted by Nohto
JBELL here is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128 sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE drives.
ZAP (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe) For future use. It is especially useful when you take a drive out of a array and forgot to delete the array before trying to install it in a different application.

Thanks!

[Nohto]

Not a problem. I know it has saved my life more than once. One thing I suggest is that you only have the drive that you want to ZAP hooked up because it is very easy to accidentally erase the wrong drive.

[piercedandtatto]

Originally posted by JBELL

If I force to boot from CD-ROM it start search of hardware and goes to black screen ands sit there.

I had this same problem the other day. I spent 8 hours trying to figure out what was wrong. Took the whole pc apart to test individual hardware. everything was fine. put it back togather and booted into windows with no problems. Still dont know what was wrong.

[JBELL]

Originally posted by piercedandtatto
I had this same problem the other day. I spent 8 hours trying to figure out what was wrong. Took the whole pc apart to test individual hardware. everything was fine. put it back togather and booted into windows with no problems. Still dont know what was wrong.


ahh the parking lot fix - works more than not!!

[piercedandtatto]

Originally posted by JBELL
ahh the parking lot fix - works more than not!!


"the parking lot fix" hmmm, never heard that one. Care to elaberate??