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January 20th, 2002, 03:28 PM
#16
Okay, when I try to boot again with the XP floppy, I still get the endless iterations of "Setup is inspecting your system's hardware configuration" for 30 seconds, then *blip*, system resets itself and starts over again.
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January 20th, 2002, 03:58 PM
#17
[quote]Originally posted by Renée:
<strong>Okay, when I try to boot again with the XP floppy, I still get the endless iterations of "Setup is inspecting your system's hardware configuration" for 30 seconds, then *blip*, system resets itself and starts over again.
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Damn, that sounds like a memory error at that point....so you never did get the CD to boot huh? If it was in my shop, the next thing I would do is to remove the HD from the laptop and use my 2.5 HD Adapter to mount it in a desktop box and see how far I can get with the other steps I've already suggested....and you probably don't have access to another HD to try a clean install....I guess if you have a memory upgrade installed you could remove that and see what happens just in case it is a RAM issue (now that I think of it, the last system I saw that had that initial error you reported failed three times before I discovered a marginal DIMM in the third bank). Also, I would make sure you don't have any PCMCIA cards plugged in while you're trying to resolve this....
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January 20th, 2002, 08:45 PM
#18
No, never got the CD to boot. When I get to a DOS prompt with the W98 boot floppy, I can access the CD, but I could never get the computer to boot from it. And, of course, I can't run the XP setup from a DOS prompt.
Any other workaround ideas, or are you thinking it's definitely hardware?
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January 20th, 2002, 10:17 PM
#19
[quote]Originally posted by Renée:
<strong>No, never got the CD to boot. When I get to a DOS prompt with the W98 boot floppy, I can access the CD, but I could never get the computer to boot from it. And, of course, I can't run the XP setup from a DOS prompt.
Any other workaround ideas, or are you thinking it's definitely hardware?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Along with the other things I've mentioned, the easiest way (with my resources) would be to use my aforementioned 2.5 adapter to connect that drive to another system and clone it to another drive, then I could do a clean install with the original drive on the laptop...if everything went well then your original problems could be assumed to be software....Laptops are such a pain. I'm still leaning toward bad RAM.....but as most of you understand, anything is possible. It's just a whole lot more challenging to reduce the variables on a laptop....
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January 21st, 2002, 09:47 AM
#20
Registered User
I ran into this exact same problem when I loaded a demo copy of Roxio Creative Writer 5. Their version 4 will not work with XP and they want you to buy 5, so I tried it. It immediately trashed my system. After two days of effort I pulled out the trusty Dos 6 disks and reformatted. If anyone has any ideas why XP has such a problem with this software I would like to know, after all the cd burner software inXp is licensed from Roxio. Peace.
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January 21st, 2002, 09:54 AM
#21
[quote]Originally posted by jitBob:
<strong>I ran into this exact same problem when I loaded a demo copy of Roxio Creative Writer 5. Their version 4 will not work with XP and they want you to buy 5, so I tried it. It immediately trashed my system. After two days of effort I pulled out the trusty Dos 6 disks and reformatted. If anyone has any ideas why XP has such a problem with this software I would like to know, after all the cd burner software inXp is licensed from Roxio. Peace.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Search the forums for Roxio--this has already been covered several times...many of us are running Roxio 4.x and 5.x in XP without problems....
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January 21st, 2002, 01:42 PM
#22
[quote]Originally posted by Sowulo:
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Along with the other things I've mentioned, the easiest way (with my resources) would be to use my aforementioned 2.5 adapter to connect that drive to another system and clone it to another drive, then I could do a clean install with the original drive on the laptop...if everything went well then your original problems could be assumed to be software....Laptops are such a pain. I'm still leaning toward bad RAM.....but as most of you understand, anything is possible. It's just a whole lot more challenging to reduce the variables on a laptop....</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, since I do backups of all data files every other day, and since there's only one file I care about that missing day on (my latest database project), and I don't have the resources you do, and it's still under warranty so I don't want to have to mail it in for service unless I know I have to.... *deep breath*...then I guess I may just try to swipe off that one file and go the nice little low-level reformat way first. I didn't like the way they partitioned my drive from the factory anyway, and I never changed it. It'll be fun to do over a drink or two tonight. Woo hoo!
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January 21st, 2002, 03:06 PM
#23
[quote]Originally posted by Renée:
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Well, since I do backups of all data files every other day, and since there's only one file I care about that missing day on (my latest database project), and I don't have the resources you do, and it's still under warranty so I don't want to have to mail it in for service unless I know I have to.... *deep breath*...then I guess I may just try to swipe off that one file and go the nice little low-level reformat way first. I didn't like the way they partitioned my drive from the factory anyway, and I never changed it. It'll be fun to do over a drink or two tonight. Woo hoo!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Don't forget, you can boot to that Win98 floppy and pull any data files off with DOS commands (as long as they'll fit on a floppy...).
Good Luck
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January 22nd, 2002, 10:54 AM
#24
reformat and throw away XP. use win 2000 i think u have to reboot after installing nero.
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January 22nd, 2002, 08:06 PM
#25
Sounds to me like Nero has replaced the miniport or IDE driver with it's own. I have seen it do this.
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January 29th, 2002, 03:03 PM
#26
Okay, the file isn't big enough to fit on a floppy, and...get this...the backup has been scratched by the cat. Yes, really. I have an older backup (about a third of the size), but I don't wanna lose all that work.
I'm gonna copy the file to logical drive D: and then format c:. Bracius gave me that idea. Gonna try it later tonight and see if it works.
Sound like a plan?
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January 29th, 2002, 04:00 PM
#27
Wait!
To do the Underground route...
Click this: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310994" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310994</a>
And boot from the disks then hit r for repair...
Goto the Repair Console and then you can disable the nero driver...
OR you can just do an automatic repair and then reapply any patches...
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January 29th, 2002, 09:39 PM
#28
[quote]Originally posted by Ben:
<strong>Wait!
To do the Underground route...
Click this: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310994" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310994</a>
And boot from the disks then hit r for repair...
Goto the Repair Console and then you can disable the nero driver...
OR you can just do an automatic repair and then reapply any patches...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Already tried that <a href="http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000539&p=1#000 008" target="_blank">earlier in the thread</a>.
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January 30th, 2002, 04:14 AM
#29
[quote]Originally posted by Renée:
<strong>Okay, the file isn't big enough to fit on a floppy, and...get this...the backup has been scratched by the cat. Yes, really. I have an older backup (about a third of the size), but I don't wanna lose all that work.
I'm gonna copy the file to logical drive D: and then format c:. Bracius gave me that idea. Gonna try it later tonight and see if it works.
Sound like a plan?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Logical Drive? Is this another partition on the same HD? If you're going to start over, I'd consider connecting a second physical drive and then doing the boot floppy thing to get to the DOS copy from c: to that second HD. Now you can safely wipe that flaked out install and redo the partitions at the same time (remove second HD before doing the full wipe just to be extra safe) just to be 100% certain there aren't any boot sector viruses, damaged partition tables, or any other nasty remnant of this little mess....
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January 30th, 2002, 08:35 AM
#30
Renee,
Don't know if you have solved your problem yet, but thought this link might help you after you clone/copy/backup your HD. Might even get you to the repair prompt.
<a href="http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=697" target="_blank">http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=697</a>
Good Luck!
Wesley 
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