JRS,
Thanks. I do see your point. But, for so many years I have tried to
avoid having the OS and DATA on the same partition.
Yet, I may still just do as you suggest.
ATM, I suspect either a problem in the MBR (dorked sectors, rootkit?,
whatever?), or, missing/corrupt XP boot files in the C:\ partition. I
have seen fixes/repairs for both of these situations on my XP CD's
recovery console.
Investigation continues.
Worst case: I'll just kiss off the contents of D/E/F and just start
completely fresh. And, then do all the normal monkey-business I need to
do for MS to be happy!
Best,
Duncan
On 06/24/2010 23:09, JRS wrote:
If it's only 160 gigs, just reformat and make it all one partition. :)
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----- Original Message ----
From: DSinc<[email protected]>
To: Hardware Group<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, June 24, 2010 5:23:14 PM
Subject: [H] Old pata disk?
So, it does not boot (Old WinXP).
Older pata 160GB HD. Previously used to
test Pata/Sata converters (Sabrent). Stuff happened. OK!!! :)
M/B Bios
sees this HD fine.
Boots to/from this HD NOT.
Boots to/from this CRROM
OK.
The C:\ partition seems to be dorked up. No boot.
Not a bit
surprised.
Not a real problem yet.
I stopped dorking around......
:)
The D:\ partition looks OK via my BART-CMD-DIR
The E:\ partition
looks OK via my BART-CMD-DIR
The F:\ partition looks OK via my
BART-CMD-DIR
Is this one of those ReFormat/Re-Load WinXP to C:\ and hope
for the best for D, E, and F?
Wondering I am.
Best,
Duncan
