XP Install Problem

onemorebeeronemorebeer
edited April 2005 in Science & Tech
Hi,

I've been trying to install XP for two days now, without success. The unit was working fine for a couple of months. I decided to play with Ghost backup and felt it's pretty safe to try things since I have copy of C drive tucked away. After playing with various games, trial products, I decided to reload XP to C drive. but after the partition is formatted, files copied, and ready to re-start, the system never goes in GUI to finish loading XP. It just keeps going back to re-start all over again. CD would spin, checks system, ask to partition/format, copy files, and re-start. This would keep looping over and over again.

Oh yeah, Ghost would give the following error msg:
"Application Error 29004"
"Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = o,
sectors 729050177 to 729050178"

I've also ran Data Lifeguard Diagnostics:
Model: WDC WD200JD - 22HBB0
Firmware: 08.02D08
CHS: 3876211663
Capacity: 200G
Drive: 0 Port:0xEFE0

Quick Test: W/O errors; Error/Status Code: 0000

Extended Test: No errors found; Error/Status code: 0000

The one thing that I didn't want to try is to 'write zeros to drive', as I still have data in other partitions that I want to keep (if all possible).

I've tried to load OEM controller drivers at beginning of install (F6), but no go. Going crazy , please help?



P4-3.0

ASUS P4P800-E deluxe

WD Caviar SE SATA 200 Gb (WD2000JD)

512mb pc3200

ATI 9800 Pro All-in-Wonder



Thanks,
onemorebeer

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited April 2005
    Have you ran memtest ?


    This sounds very likely to be defective ram
  • onemorebeeronemorebeer
    edited April 2005
    GrayFox, thanks for the suggestion. Have never used memtest. I'll do this as soon as I find out how/where to get software to do this.

    mtgoat, if you're referring to my issue, I do have the system specs on the bottom of my first msg. If not, please ignore this note.

    onemorebeer
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2005
    onemorebeer wrote:
    ...Have never used memtest. I'll do this as soon as I find out how/where to get software to do this...
    You can get it here: Memtest-86
  • onemorebeeronemorebeer
    edited April 2005
    prodfld, thanks for the memtest files.

    GreyFox, I've ran memtest for 4 hours / 25 passes. O error.

    So far, I've ran the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic; memtest; loaded OEM controller driver (F6) during XP install; turning power management ON/OFF in bios... but to no avail. Any other suggestions?

    I'm so frustrated that I cannot load XP, driving me crazy. :scratch:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2005
    Forgive me if I'm missing something, but it sounds like you're using both Ghost and trying to do a clean install at the same time. :)
  • onemorebeeronemorebeer
    edited April 2005
    Sorry for the confusion. Ghost backup image reload was my first intention, and the new XP install was out of desperation. But neither is going well.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2005
    Boot up from the WinXP CD and go into the recovery console, then try the following commands:

    Fixboot
    Fixmbr
    chkdsk /f

    Do them in that order, hitting <enter> after each one.

    Then cross your fingers, reboot, and see what happens.
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