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Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Thing is, the drive really isn't that old, maybe about a year. So it really shouldn't be failing already. I have had htis proble or a similar one with a reboot loop twice before over the last few months though, first time I had to format and restart from scratch, second time I was able to access the recovery console and fix the MBR.
This time I can't even get windows to boot from the CD, and even if I was able to and reinstall windows there's no saying the same thing wont happen again. Anycase, I need to find out exactly what's causing this. If it is a hardware problem, e. If the registry is corrupt, surely I'd still be able to access the recovery console using the winxp cd? Besides which, rolling the reg back to before the problem started would surely fix this?
Or would I be better off just ditching the drive which I'm reluctant to do cos it's fairly new and starting over? Sorry to go on about this, still looking for a solution.
I'm resigned to the fact that I'm going to have to format the drive, I'm just wondering how to go about it. Since I can't boot from the windows CD, would it be advisable to boot from the slave and just format the bad drive from windows?
If I do this, are there some programs that will allow me to scan it thoroughly afterwards to make sure there's no malicious software left behind? McTavish , Mar 20, I ran windows memory diagnostics from a floppy, it didn't find any errors which leads me to believe that my hardware is fine - at least the mobo, ram, video card etc probably aren't the cause of the problem.
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