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Regestry screwed - computer is screwed HELP ME
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Posted by: chitocobo
i dont know if this is a hardware or sofware related problem let me expain ...
I was playing a game of enemy territory and i decided it was enough and to go do something else. I came back an hour later and decide to instal my new cd-rom. so i replace the old with the new.
1. Bois startes and detects the new drive.
2. all of the sudden it asks me to select from the list of safemode and stuff. with the message.
There is an error with the registry/configuration. choose command line and use SCANREG
3. I try to boot windows normaly. It apears to give this error
Cannot read a cluster from dirve c:/ ABORT,RETRY,IGNORE,FAIL
Fail. gives many blue screens and then full crash
abort instantly shuts down
the others dont work
4. i try to run SCANREG .. it seems to work but gives me a dos promt in the background that works.. i leave for an hour and it doesnt work
5. i run scandisk and it finds many errors. but doesnt fix problem.
i dont have a windows disk but the computer im using has XP. there is a chance that i can borrow his HD and copy it with the life gaurd.
i really dont know what happened. Could it possibly be from the disk drive. cuz i tried to remove it and still nothing.
Posted by: The-AoD
Sounds like you set the CD-Rom wrong on the IDE cable. Make sure if you're using it on the same cable as your hard drive to set the hard drive to master and CD-Rom to slave. The first port, closest to the motherboard is the master on the IDE cable; the farthest away from the motherboard is the slave.
Make sure it's set right or you'll have all kinds of wierd happenings, even when you use cable select you can sometimes have similar problems. Make sure they're all set correctly.
If these still are a problem, try running a CHKDSK through that same command line. If it's working correctly, it'll check the disk for basic problems. The drive may just be dying.
It's possible that the boot process caused a failure in the partition table. You may need to format the drive. There's tons of problems that this could be, I just have given you a basic assumption on the most possible ideas.
Another way to test the hard drive. Try putting it on your friends machine. Not as the main drive, but as a slave or on the seconday IDE controller. If the disk reports as fine through a scandisk with the thorough check in windows, then it's a hardware problem with your system.
Posted by: redwench
make sure error correction is enabled with the scandisk. hopefully, you just have a temporary corruption, and not a failing hard drive.
no, unless the computers happen to be identical, you cannot just copy over the OS. your best bet is to pop it in as a slave as suggested above, and try to repair as much as possible there. youll probaby have to run a repair installation of xp, even in the best case scenario. so find the disk. with 2 computers, you must have one.
Posted by: chitocobo
hmm. the drive is on a seperate ide cable and set to master not cs
The old drive was set to CS.
If drive dies i cannot buy new one so no computer for me 
Reminds me i need a job after school
well looks lke this system is a waste of my (moms) money .. and she wont put out any more for another HD. meh
Posted by: The-AoD
lol. Try the drive in another system, such as your friends. If it works there, the drive is most likely just not agreeing with you for lack of better words. lol
Try everything, like you're installing a brand new drive. Make sure everything is setup perfectly.
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