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hard rive reinstall.
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Posted by: chitocobo
well it seems that im becoming a regular around here. in my last indeaver i found that my windows registry is totaly screwed as it was held in the olny bad sector of my hardrive that i didnt knbow about. so i now must reinstall windows. Here is what i did
I decided to fdisk the thing. never fdisk before i decided to just delete the dos partition and reinstal it as the guid i was ready said. The id reformat it and be on my way. Well i never got that far
Would you like to delete dos partition (yes)
Would you like to instal dos paretition (yes)
Restarts computer
Shows bois screen
Shows configuration scrren
WD easy-bios kicks in
starting up.....
its been there for 20 minutes now.
Since i cant get a dos promt. i dont know what teh do
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umm i just put in a 6GB HD to try and get windows up for a bit .. it has nothing installed on it as far as i can tell.
BOIS screen
Insert bootable disk.
i went to bootdisk.com and downloaded the windows boot disk but this doesnt work. WTF is a boot disk. i know its suppost to give me the windows support menu but it dont work... GRR. im starting to wonder if computers are jus to time consuming. seems that its broken more than not.
actually i cant live without computers .. what a horror of a world i live in lol. cant use it but cant do without it
Posted by: trekpsycho
Have you tried to restart it again? Or unplug the thing, wait a few minutes and plug it back in and turn it on.
Posted by: chitocobo
yup .. sorry to say but im not the average noob who doesnt try the obvious lol. Im sure redwretch will post here very soon and save me from evil computer problem :/... or that AoT guy
Posted by: Bix VT
What version of windows is it? If it's XP and you have a cd drive, you should just be able to pop in the cd and re-install...however since you meantioned dos, I might guess it could be win 3.1?
Posted by: Gazornenplat
With your first HD, the reason you don't get a DOS prompt or anything is there's no OS on it yet. A DOS partition is just a partition that's compatible with DOS, it doesn't actually contain DOS untill it's formatted and an OS is installed. You should be able to start your windows setup from the CD-ROM as long as you have your BIOS set to boot from CD-ROM (the boot order will be in there somewhere). It'll then give you a setup menu and you'll be totally on your way. Windows will format the drive for you and then it'll go through the install process. Just make sure that somewhere in your boot order in your BIOS (they usually let you pick three devices to boot from, in a specific order), you have your primary IDE drive (your HD) and your CD-ROM.
Hope this helps.
Posted by: chitocobo
its windows 98 actually.
who would instal windows 3.1 on a barton lol
ok let me explain.
FIRST HARDRIVE: has windows 98 on it. seems teh be screwed as it hangs at second bios screen. it has Western Digitals EZ-BOIS
SECOND HARDRIVE: has nothing on it i think. umm i dont understand what to do with this piece
All i can get is the thing that says inseyt bottable disk.
i have the boot disk in the A: drive
i have the windows 98 disk in the D: drive
i wish i could just get a dos promt or something. how am i suppost to do anything without a promt
Posted by: trekpsycho
Ok, so you are saying that you have the bios is set to boot from the floppy and you have a good bootable floppy in the drive and the machine will not get past the bios boot up screen? Have you tried with both HD's or just the first? Have you tried with only one drive hooked up to the IDE cable? I'm just guessing here at your situation, but from the way I am reading your post, what I would do first is to try booting with just the first drive connected and see what happens. Then if you can't get past the bios screen, try with the other drive. I'm thinking that if you had some bad sectors on the first drive, that might be why it won't get past the bios with it. If you can get it to boot from the floppy with the second drive then you could format that one and install 98 on it.
Posted by: trekpsycho
Hmm. Went back and read the post again.
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All i can get is the thing that says inseyt bottable disk.
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Is this with the second HD set up as master on the IDE cable by itself? With the boot floppy?
Posted by: chitocobo
thats with eathere drive. they both cant get past there cuz all of the sudden my boot disk isnt a boot disk. Maybe my floppy erased itself five minutes after
Posted by: Da Weef
Can't you just boot from the windows 98 CD (btw, who puts THAT on a Barton  ) install it on the empty HD and see if you can retrieve your data from the first one??? Or am I missing something here...
Posted by: trekpsycho
I don't think you can boot from a Win 98 CD, could be wrong. Try making another boot disk. I have had that problem before where a floppy goes bad all of a sudden when you need it most. The only other thing that I can think of is to check your connections on the floppy drive. Does the light come on at all while its trying to boot?
Posted by: Da Weef
I have an old win 98 (not SE) CD which I used for my old system... Boots just fine. Maybe Chito doesn't have CD as a first boot option??
Posted by: redwench
some versions of 98 allow you to boot from the cd, some dont for some reason.
well try to get your small drive going first, that should be easier. make sure your bios is set to boot from: cd, floppy, hard drive. in that order. if the 98 disk isnt bootable, it will just move on to the floppy. make sure your bootdisk is for 98, and not another OS. as trek suggested, you might need to redownload it again, thats a well known occurance.
Posted by: chitocobo
hmm well i know many people who use windows 98 on better coms.
ok i think the whole problem has to do with the windows 98 cd. it has so many scratchs.
ok.. i found that the problem was that i smeared arctic silver paste on my hardrive to make it run smother and it started to make wierd grinding noises. .. then i place some on my ram to make it run smother and put bags of water on my cpu instead of a heatsink to be like watert cooling.
ohh and i smeared toothpaste like they said on the scratches of the cd. but i wanted it to not have giungivites so i poured some listerine on for good mesure.
the i droped it in the toilet and had to use my toilet brush to whipe it clean. i cant undertstand why the scratchs are still there.
hmm. btw my OCing of my p2 worked. im tryping this on a p2 running at 346575674.35345ghz running smooth at -24 degrees celcuis
i guess my water cooling really works. now to apply more paste to the hard drive to get rid of the grinding noises.
ohh and anyone want to see my custom mobo. I knowtest all these wierd things called resisters and removed them to make my mobo more compact. this didnt work as the mobo suddenly rised to a very high tempeture. maybe i need more bags of water.
ohh crap. is it bad if water gets on a running computer.
tech support: you want to return this. you totlay modified this
Me: no i didnt
tech support: why is there beer on the mobo
Me: it was thirsty?
tech support: umm silver paste doesnt go in the hardrive or floppy drive
Me: ohh then where does it go
tech support: on the cpu
Me: no thats where the water colling goes.
tech support: hmm this pentuim 2 is shoved intoa socket A mobo and
the multiplyier is set to 800mhz...
Me: it came like that
tech support: wheres the resistors
Me: THE WHAT?so can i get another one?
if anyone wants me to work on there system id be glad to. jus send it to my house and ill even give free water cooling.
my adrees is 123 dumb azz mofo n.s.
Posted by: redwench
rofl
Posted by: Oldcrocd
As I was reading through the posts and came to the last I laughed som much I got thirsty. Any chance of doing a water mod where it can boil water for coffee!!
Posted by: chitocobo
hmm sure i can do that for you too.
um back to being serious again. I just got a windows xp disk and it wont boot eather. i really wonder.
you see i have a windows xp upgrade disk. a windows xp full disk. a windows 98 disk.
windows xp upgrade: boots fine. requires earlier version of windows. windows 98 is too scratched is all
windows xp full: wont boot. omg. hy wont it boot.
ohh and if your intereseted there is a group out there who are trying to mkae a water computer. they are going to make all the stuff in it water thing and will it with water and then place it in some sort of mini fridge thing.
They say they can ver clock a p4 to like 6ghz this way. hmm
Posted by: redwench
hmmm, for you to boot from the xp cd, boot from cd rom must be enabled. obviously, it has to be detected as well.
Posted by: Da Weef
Erm... The windows XP upgrade CD boots and the windows XP full won't. Yup, that's weird!
Did you try it with or without the screwed up HD, maybe it is interfering in some way. Try with only the 'empty' one at master. If there is still no boot, it is pretty much a mystery to me... (I take it the boot sequence is set at CD first now).
And no offence with the 98 crack some people actually prefer it to newer versions. I just don't understand that, especially if you have more than enough memory...
Good luck with it...
Posted by: chitocobo
yah i was just gonna bring all the stuff i got back to the store. funny thing is that they seem to think that my warranty is viod becuase they say i OCed the duron that i got. But i obviously didnt becuase the bridges arent even linked!
well.. it seems im out of luck intell someone donates me a working CDrom drive and a working hard drive. The real problem is that i cannot get to a promt to type seup. So i really dont know what to do.
Maybe when my brother leaves i can stick the hard rive in his "idiot box" (see i know some tech terms) and see if it works
Posted by: redwench
well, anything but the os could probably be installed with the drive on another computer. you can try the OS, but that tends not to work very well, if at all.
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