Repairing Windows XP

BloodBath

Hey I think I corrupted my OS overclocking my machine.

It restarts in the same place just as it finishes loading windows and is about to go to the password screen. I don't think it's a hardware problem as I was well within safe boundaries and I have reset everything to stock so it's not a BIOS setting either.

Now my problem is that I can't access the system recovery console. When I press R to go to system recovery it tells me there are no HD's detected. Does it have trouble detecting RAID 0? On startup my HD's are detected so I don't know what the problem is.


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jesus_thats_gre

Have you tried booting of ur XP CD?

BloodBath

No how can I boot into windows from the cd?


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jesus_thats_gre

Assuming you have a bootable version of XP, set your CD drive as the first bootable device in your bios and your pc will boot into the XP setup where there is a recovery option.. Alternatively, if your CD is not bootable, I assume you have the WinXP boot disks that can be downloaded from microsoft.com?

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No no that's not the problem. I have a bootable disk and I have cd set to boot first in BIOS. I get into the disk where I have the option of installingwindows xp or repairing.

If I select either I get an error message saying unable to detect any disk drives.



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It's ok I figured it out. I had to load the sata drivers from a floppy.

Cheers for the help anyway.

What commands should I run apart from fixmbr and fixboot?


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Mutant_Fruit

you mihgt need to do a windows repair (its an option on the install CD). Just boot off the CD and repair the existing windows.

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Yup she's back up and running thank god.

Bloody OS corruption. I wonder why it happened. My memory was within stated speeds. The processor must have saved an error.


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Mutant_Fruit

if you don't have a working PCI/AGP lock thingy, then if you overclock the FSB by more than about 5mhz then you can be looking at some IDE corruption, which means your harddrive is going to be writing/reading data which gets corrupted due to the bad FSB settings.

That could be what happened.

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Nope I had the agp/pci lock on. Fsb was at 250 which is what I always have it at. I just changed the multi from 14 to 15.


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[Preacher]

You may have gotten away with it if you booted from your RAID driver disk and then tryed to run a restore.

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You may have gotten away with it if you booted from your RAID driver disk and then tryed to run a restore.

That's what I did Preach but cheers anyway. Where were you earlier.


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