Unrecoverable?

Hijpo

I recieved a tower that has a Sata HDD with XP installed. It wont boot past the loading screen. The only options i have are Safe mode, with networking and with prompt. All three stop at gagp30kx.sys.
I tried accessing the recovery console (not windows recovery console as i have no xp home disc, neither does the owner, nor can they provide me with a product key to create my own Xp recovery disk) and that tells me that there is no proper HDD attatched.

I checked BIOS and the Sata HDD is showing as SCSI, could this be why the recovery console isnt detecting it? I was able to boot into ubuntu and the HDD is accessable and in good health with only 40GB used.
I renamed the dodgy driver to see if it would bypass it but it now stalls on MUP.SYS

Anyone have any tricks or ideas to get to a cmd console so i could try SFC? Is it really a nackerd HDD or atleast one thats on the way out?

Iv already backed up there data through ubuntu, the problem if the other ideas dont work is, getting a legit windows disk+key to install because the recovery tool wont access the drive to reinstall windows from the recovery partition.

*deep breath in*

Just thinking, if it stalls on MUP.SYS after changing GAGP30KX.SYS, then maybe its the driver AFTER GAGP30KX thats the problem, any ideas what loads after GAGP30KX.SYS??

yoyo

Hijpo wrote: »

I recieved a tower that has a Sata HDD with XP installed. It wont boot past the loading screen. The only options i have are Safe mode, with networking and with prompt. All three stop at gagp30kx.sys.
I tried accessing the recovery console (not windows recovery console as i have no xp home disc, neither does the owner, nor can they provide me with a product key to create my own Xp recovery disk) and that tells me that there is no proper HDD attatched.

I checked BIOS and the Sata HDD is showing as SCSI, could this be why the recovery console isnt detecting it? I was able to boot into ubuntu and the HDD is accessable and in good health with only 40GB used.
I renamed the dodgy driver to see if it would bypass it but it now stalls on MUP.SYS

Anyone have any tricks or ideas to get to a cmd console so i could try SFC? Is it really a nackerd HDD or atleast one thats on the way out?

Iv already backed up there data through ubuntu, the problem if the other ideas dont work is, getting a legit windows disk+key to install because the recovery tool wont access the drive to reinstall windows from the recovery partition.

*deep breath in*

Just thinking, if it stalls on MUP.SYS after changing GAGP30KX.SYS, then maybe its the driver AFTER GAGP30KX thats the problem, any ideas what loads after GAGP30KX.SYS??

Probably the hard drives the issue, The drivers printed on screen are the ones Windows loaded ok, hard disks are usually last. I would run a complete hard disk diagnostics scan, use something like SeaTools For DOS, burn to a Cd, boot off it and it should pick up the disk and run a full scan.
If the hard drive isn't being detected in the BIOs change SATA mode from AHCI to IDE/Legacy mode. By the sounds of it you got the data off just in time

Nick

Hijpo

Hi nick, thanks for the link just got round to running seatools on it now. If the HDD does come back as healthy, what would u suggest i do from there? full format and stick linux on it for the time being? Windows is out of the picture as iv no access to the owners OEM discs or product key. The product key isnt to much of a problem its finding the right media to go with an OEM licence

yoyo

Hijpo wrote: »

Hi nick, thanks for the link just got round to running seatools on it now. If the HDD does come back as healthy, what would u suggest i do from there? full format and stick linux on it for the time being? Windows is out of the picture as iv no access to the owners OEM discs or product key. The product key isnt to much of a problem its finding the right media to go with an OEM licence

Did you run an advanced long scan? If so I'm guessing Windows is having trouble loading a particular driver. If you can get access to another XP install media, I would run a repair install, nothing to loose at this stage, failing that, Ubuntu wouldn't be a bad idea.
What particular media do you need? Throw it up here and someone may be able help out, not got many OEM discs myself but others may!

Nick

Hijpo

Yes its still running, at 85% and SMART hasnt been tripped. Its XP home but im not sure if SP1 or SP2 or even if it came with any service packs. I could use Jelly Bean to get the Product key if i got the right media.

yoyo

Hijpo wrote: »

Yes its still running, at 85% and SMART hasnt been tripped. Its XP home but im not sure if SP1 or SP2 or even if it came with any service packs. I could use Jelly Bean to get the Product key if i got the right media.

SMART means nothing sometimes, just because SMART hasn't tripped doesn't mean the drive isn't screwed! Full low levl scan will pick up problems though if any

Nick

PapaQuebec

Hijpo wrote: »

I recieved a tower that has a Sata HDD with XP installed. It wont boot past the loading screen. The only options i have are Safe mode, with networking and with prompt. All three stop at gagp30kx.sys.
I tried accessing the recovery console (not windows recovery console as i have no xp home disc, neither does the owner, nor can they provide me with a product key to create my own Xp recovery disk) and that tells me that there is no proper HDD attatched.

I checked BIOS and the Sata HDD is showing as SCSI, could this be why the recovery console isnt detecting it? I was able to boot into ubuntu and the HDD is accessable and in good health with only 40GB used.
I renamed the dodgy driver to see if it would bypass it but it now stalls on MUP.SYS

Anyone have any tricks or ideas to get to a cmd console so i could try SFC? Is it really a nackerd HDD or atleast one thats on the way out?

Iv already backed up there data through ubuntu, the problem if the other ideas dont work is, getting a legit windows disk+key to install because the recovery tool wont access the drive to reinstall windows from the recovery partition.

*deep breath in*

Just thinking, if it stalls on MUP.SYS after changing GAGP30KX.SYS, then maybe its the driver AFTER GAGP30KX thats the problem, any ideas what loads after GAGP30KX.SYS??

What make of PC?
I have many OEM OS discs in the workshop that dont require a product key if installed on a matching system (ie Dell)

Hijpo

yoyo wrote: »

Hijpo wrote: »

Yes its still running, at 85% and SMART hasnt been tripped. Its XP home but im not sure if SP1 or SP2 or even if it came with any service packs. I could use Jelly Bean to get the Product key if i got the right media.

SMART means nothing sometimes, just because SMART hasn't tripped doesn't mean the drive isn't screwed! Full low levl scan will pick up problems though if any

Nick

Sea tools doesnt have a low level scan?? Did a long scan and it came back clear. When i get to the third party recovery console it says the drive isnt detected, if this is corrupt drivers this is whats bugging me, how could the recovery console rely on windows HDD drivers to communicate with the HDD to fix a HDD driver issue??

yoyo

Hijpo wrote: »

Sea tools doesnt have a low level scan?? Did a long scan and it came back clear. When i get to the third party recovery console it says the drive isnt detected, if this is corrupt drivers this is whats bugging me, how could the recovery console rely on windows HDD drivers to communicate with the HDD to fix a HDD driver issue??

The advanced scan in Seatools is a low level one, well it checks the drive sector by sector. If your drive isn't being detected by some tools don't panick! You may need to go into the BIOs and change SATA Mode from AHCI to Legacy/IDE

Nick

Hijpo

yoyo wrote: »

Hijpo wrote: »

Sea tools doesnt have a low level scan?? Did a long scan and it came back clear. When i get to the third party recovery console it says the drive isnt detected, if this is corrupt drivers this is whats bugging me, how could the recovery console rely on windows HDD drivers to communicate with the HDD to fix a HDD driver issue??

The advanced scan in Seatools is a low level one, well it checks the drive sector by sector. If your drive isn't being detected by some tools don't panick! You may need to go into the BIOs and change SATA Mode from AHCI to Legacy/IDE

Nick

The only options are Raid and IDE in the bios and iv tried both. Now that i know the hdd is ok, next stop is the xp repair if i can get the right media, after that its getting ubuntu on it and drop kicked back to the owner.

yoyo

IDE mode is the more compatible

Nick