$10 to fix this: XP install/booting problem (ntldr, sata)
Hello everyone!
I have a kinda complex problem that I would love to get some suggestions about. Perhaps someone can suggest something that I'm missing. The first person to give the suggestion that fixes the problem gets $10 paypaled to them.
Ok, here goes:
I was running my computer the other day (a 2003, winxp pro, p4 2.8ghz system w/ primary sata hdd) and I decide to do a disk cleanup, because my sata hdd (where the windows install is located) was starting to get full. So I start to run the cleanup and midway thru my computer locks up. I do a hard reset, and the computer boots up normally until getting to the windows xp loading screen (the black boot screen w/ the windows xp logo and the little blue bar going back and forth). It stays on this screen (as if it were loading) but never gets past this point.
So, I try booting into safe mode, and the bootup gets stuck at "agp440.sys." I do a little research and find that this could be related to the ntldr file becoming corrupt, so I use a boot cd to copy the "ntldr" file from a winXP cd. However, no change. I then tried to use the winxp CD and just install a fresh copy of windows over the old copy, BUT when the XP recovery CD loads and I select "new installation" it says "hard drive not found." I then use more boot CD tools to make sure that the partition on the sata drive is set as active, etc but no luck.
I then proceed to disconnect the SATA drive, grab a fresh IDE drive and do a new Windows install on it... seems fine but something is up...It doesn't recognize/install any drivers for my generic pci sound card or my built in (to the mobo) network adapter... very strange - this has never happened before when I've reinstalled windows.
So this is where I'm at, and I'm getting desperate. I am willing to pay the first person that gives me a solution that fixes the problem $10 via paypal.
Hello everyone!
I have a kinda complex problem that I would love to get some suggestions about. Perhaps someone can suggest something that I'm missing. The first person to give the suggestion that fixes the problem gets $10 paypaled to them.
Ok, here goes:
I was running my computer the other day (a 2003, winxp pro, p4 2.8ghz system w/ primary sata hdd) and I decide to do a disk cleanup, because my sata hdd (where the windows install is located) was starting to get full. So I start to run the cleanup and midway thru my computer locks up. I do a hard reset, and the computer boots up normally until getting to the windows xp loading screen (the black boot screen w/ the windows xp logo and the little blue bar going back and forth). It stays on this screen (as if it were loading) but never gets past this point.
So, I try booting into safe mode, and the bootup gets stuck at "agp440.sys." I do a little research and find that this could be related to the ntldr file becoming corrupt, so I use a boot cd to copy the "ntldr" file from a winXP cd. However, no change. I then tried to use the winxp CD and just install a fresh copy of windows over the old copy, BUT when the XP recovery CD loads and I select "new installation" it says "hard drive not found." I then use more boot CD tools to make sure that the partition on the sata drive is set as active, etc but no luck.
I then proceed to disconnect the SATA drive, grab a fresh IDE drive and do a new Windows install on it... seems fine but something is up...It doesn't recognize/install any drivers for my generic pci sound card or my built in (to the mobo) network adapter... very strange - this has never happened before when I've reinstalled windows.
So this is where I'm at, and I'm getting desperate. I am willing to pay the first person that gives me a solution that fixes the problem $10 via paypal.