CareBear
March 6th, 2003, 09:33
I think one of my computers is trying its very best to infuriate me :angry2:
It's a 500Mhz and the plan was to put it in another room but swap the 20Gb that was in it with a 60Gb I have to spare now and reinstall Win2k.
I swapped the hard disks, turned the power on, put the Win2k cd in it and it booted happily. After the formatting the problems began though, it would give a "file error" during copying which indicated the files got corrupted while being transferred from CD to harddisk.
So I used another Win2k cd but ran into the same problem. I kept trying but nothing seemed to make it go away so eventually I put the 20Gb disk back in and booted and got greeted by a "inaccessable boot device" Win2k blue screen.
When I tried to install Win2k onto the old 20Gb disk (which Win2k had been running off quite happily for the past 2 years) same problem as mentioned before.. around 18% it starts giving file copying errors.
I put both disks into another computer, used the same cd, tried installing Win2k on both of them.. no problems whatsoever.
Summary of what all I've tried right now:
harddisk primary master - cdrom drive secondary master
harddisk secondary master - cd-rom drive secondary slave
changed the cables of both primary and secondary controllers with ones I know work
updated the bios
fiddled with every possible setting in the bios
ran the Seagate Disk Diagnostic tools.. it runs an internal hd test which completed fine and then a test run through the disk controller (only tests read though, it doesn't write to the disk) and both completed without errors
removed every card plugged into the slots (video is onboard for that one)
reset CMOS several times
dissasembled the whole thing and put it back together piece by piece
disabled UDMA and put both harddisk and cd-rom on PIO mode
So right now I'm completely clueless... :confused2 anyone have *any* ideas? I refuse to give up on it until it's fixed. It worked fine yesterday and all of two years before. :mad:
It boots Win2k from cd-rom, it goes through the format process and the recovery console works fine too.. it reads from the harddisk fine too. Just seems that things gets messed up when it tries to write to the harddisk :confused2
It's a 500Mhz and the plan was to put it in another room but swap the 20Gb that was in it with a 60Gb I have to spare now and reinstall Win2k.
I swapped the hard disks, turned the power on, put the Win2k cd in it and it booted happily. After the formatting the problems began though, it would give a "file error" during copying which indicated the files got corrupted while being transferred from CD to harddisk.
So I used another Win2k cd but ran into the same problem. I kept trying but nothing seemed to make it go away so eventually I put the 20Gb disk back in and booted and got greeted by a "inaccessable boot device" Win2k blue screen.
When I tried to install Win2k onto the old 20Gb disk (which Win2k had been running off quite happily for the past 2 years) same problem as mentioned before.. around 18% it starts giving file copying errors.
I put both disks into another computer, used the same cd, tried installing Win2k on both of them.. no problems whatsoever.
Summary of what all I've tried right now:
harddisk primary master - cdrom drive secondary master
harddisk secondary master - cd-rom drive secondary slave
changed the cables of both primary and secondary controllers with ones I know work
updated the bios
fiddled with every possible setting in the bios
ran the Seagate Disk Diagnostic tools.. it runs an internal hd test which completed fine and then a test run through the disk controller (only tests read though, it doesn't write to the disk) and both completed without errors
removed every card plugged into the slots (video is onboard for that one)
reset CMOS several times
dissasembled the whole thing and put it back together piece by piece
disabled UDMA and put both harddisk and cd-rom on PIO mode
So right now I'm completely clueless... :confused2 anyone have *any* ideas? I refuse to give up on it until it's fixed. It worked fine yesterday and all of two years before. :mad:
It boots Win2k from cd-rom, it goes through the format process and the recovery console works fine too.. it reads from the harddisk fine too. Just seems that things gets messed up when it tries to write to the harddisk :confused2