Well last night my main drive shit the bed. I've got a 15 and 30 that are older, but the 60 gig is where I have most of my vids, mp3s, and newer games. It went out in grand style and basically wouldn't allow the system to run. I finally diagnosed the problem today (hoped it might just be a bad IDE cable or something) but it was the drive. CHKDSK ran for 2 hours and found the numerous problems and fixed them, and in the process I lost damn near everything on the drive.

But lucky for me about 2 weeks ago I had fucked around and actually made a complete mirror of the drive onto my unconnected 120 gig HD. So I fired that one up and sure enough, its got everything except a couple weeks worth of new songs. Big deal. The problem is, I wanted to try and format the 60 and see if I could reload it with the mirror. So I hooked the 15, 30, 60, and 120 (no CD drive) and it gets to the XP startup screen and reboots after loading for a few seconds. If I go just the orig. 3 drives, it'll let me select my name and then reboots. I did pull the drive up once in safe mode and could access it to see most of the data was fragged. But just what the fuck would be causing this reboot thing? I'm about to go back to Safe Mode and just do a full-format of the 60. Any other suggestions or ideas though?

3/18/2006 11:28:29 PM

if you go into the recovery console using the xp cd
then type fixmbr, and fixboot it will probably fix the problem

3/18/2006 11:32:21 PM

freezor trick

3/18/2006 11:47:50 PM