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  1. December 16th, 2002, 02:57 PM #1
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    Unhappy hangs at boot up

    got a customer with a winxp pro pc that all of a sudden won't boot up. It just hangs after "verifying dmi pool" message on screen. It is formatted in fat32, I tried a win98 startup disk in it; it gives me an error message "file allocation table bad, drive c". is there a way in xp to fix the master boot record, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

    his system:
    athlon 2200 xp
    1 gig sdram
    western digital 40 gig
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  2. December 16th, 2002, 03:04 PM #2
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    Is it fat32 or ntfs?

    Either way - boot from the xp setup - go to recovery console and type in fixmbr then when thats done fixboot

    or simply run chkdsk from the recovery console to see what the problem is
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  3. December 16th, 2002, 10:50 PM #3
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    it is fat32. a year ago it was upgraded from win98 and has been fine till now. I recently upgraded memory from 512 to 1 gig a couple of weeks ago, but I tried the old memory and it wasn't it.
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  4. December 17th, 2002, 01:19 AM #4
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    Seen this on several systems, go into the BIOS and set "System Defaults" and reboot.

    Worth a try, I've seen it quite a bit, then tell them not to mess in there no more.
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  5. December 17th, 2002, 04:47 PM #5
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    I had this too, but I just turned ACPI back on...and I wanted that IRQ too...
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  6. December 18th, 2002, 01:38 PM #6
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    I put another hard drive in this system and it is working fine. customer had 6 month old ghost image backed up on another pc, so he is up and least running till I can get his recent data back. I hooked this drive up as a slave to another pc running xp, it tried to run scandisk on this drive at startup then said it was not formatted properly and was unusable. I ran easyrecover software on it and it finds a lot of the files on the drive. I am getting another drive today so I will try to recover files to it. I would like to try running windows setup and try the repair option or using recovery console on it. Do you think this is a good idea? or do I risk losing the data all together?
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  7. December 18th, 2002, 02:03 PM #7
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    If scandisk didn't like the format, setup won't run. Even if you run the setup without scandisk yes I believe you will lose the lot.
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  8. December 27th, 2002, 09:36 PM #8
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    Easyrecover was able to get most the files back, I think he had a good old fashioned crash. I reformatted the drive and it has been working fine in a different pc. I think he will back up more often now
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