HD seems to have forgotten what it is

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Computer was running the other day, I left the room, came back and it was frozen. Did not respond to anything. Hit reset button on front of box, it comes up, starts loading windows XP (SP2) and eventually the blue progress bar stalls, and the computer restarts.

When I boot in safemode, it loads a few of the drivers, then stalls.

I booted from the Windows CD and hit R to repair, and got nothing. If I hit enter to “Install” windows, it sees the disk for the right size, and there is an unidentified partition that is the right size.

What the eff happened? HD “seems” to be working fine. No wierd noises or anything. I have other HDs. Should I load the system on another disk, and then plug this in as a slave and see if I can get data off it? Is just the bootloader or directory structure or something fubard?

Thanks

:hay:

You’d think after last time I would have gotten off my ass and ordered another RAID card. Well, it is in the mail… :sigh:

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ERD Commander has a utility to recover the partition

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so u were running windows xp no problems and when u rebooted it starting loading it?

you must of started a reinstall at some point and its finding that on the mbr.

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What happens when you try and boot off the CD to the recovery console?

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get the command prompt and run chkdsk. must specify the drive. let it do its thing and it should fix itself. had a similar problem on my gf’s laptop. did this and no problems since.

edit~reading again this probably won’t work.

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bombs

lots of them.

NOW

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[quote=“chino,post:6,topic:39856"”]

bombs

lots of them.

NOW

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More specific type. Jager. It’s the only way to save it now.

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if all else fails when taking advice from amateurs, send it to me

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hahah thats funny right there.

:slight_smile:

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My guess is you have some bad spots on your HD where critical windows files are located. Safe mode gets further because some of those files that it’s getting stuck on during normal boot aren’t being loaded.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

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ahh good ol hirens boot cds!!!

love em.

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[quote=“BuickGN,post:11,topic:39856"”]

ahh good ol hirens boot cds!!!

love em.

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Word, Kevin…Word

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[quote=“RuBiCaNT,post:10,topic:39856"”]

My guess is you have some bad spots on your HD where critical windows files are located. Safe mode gets further because some of those files that it’s getting stuck on during normal boot aren’t being loaded.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

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Looks powerful, what should I start with?

Active Partition Recovery 3.0
To Recover a Deleted partition.?

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[quote=“BuickGN,post:3,topic:39856"”]

so u were running windows xp no problems and when u rebooted it starting loading it?

you must of started a reinstall at some point and its finding that on the mbr.

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no, never started a reinstall. several reboots and safe mode startups were attempted before it got to this point.

going to try a restart and see if I can get some more accurate error messages for you guys

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Straight boot to safemode

The system stalls at

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition910\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\JGOGO.sys

Then restarts.

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Poking around google it seems like JGOGO.sys has caused problems for others. I’m not running a RAID currently, nor am I trying to, which it appears that JGOGO.sys is attached to. I have not changed system configurations or installed any software recently. Like I said, it was just hanging out on the netflix homepage when it went bonko the first time.

Trying to get to recovery console right now. It is busy Examining 238473 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi…

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Do you have another drive?

I’d boot to the other drive and save important data before you keep fucking around.

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Ok, upon starting recovery console.

The path or file specified is not valid.

If I try and run chkdsk

The specified drive is not valid, or there is no disk in the drive.

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[quote=“Daddie,post:17,topic:39856"”]

Do you have another drive?

I’d boot to the other drive and save important data before you keep fucking around.

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Roger that. I’ve got a spare, should put it in and put a fresh OS on to try and grab data, but will I even be able to see it given what is happening? Even if I boot to another drive?

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[quote=“walter,post:19,topic:39856"”]

Roger that. I’ve got a spare, should put it in and put a fresh OS on to try and grab data, but will I even be able to see it given what is happening? Even if I boot to another drive?

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That’s what I would do. A fresh basic copy of XP and then once you have put all the drivers on, attach that old drive, boot to windows and see if it recognizes it. Let us know how that goes if it does not recognize it, there are other things you can do. I know there are some linux based utilities that can see drives that windows can’t, you just need to have a USB drive or flash drive or something to get the data off if the utilities can’t fix the drive.

Walter, WTF, you like play full contact sports with your computers or something, it seems like you are always having HD problems…