airman Posted August 27, 2004 Posted August 27, 2004 I was running fine....and i had just installed a fresh copy of windows xp pro. It was giving me 30 days activate, but i had to go somewhere and i just turned the machine off. When i come back, i try to turn on the computer, and no boot. I look on the motherboard, and the battery had fallen out. Sooo...i put it back in. Not knowing that when i booted windows it had reset the date to 2000 (so just think...i'm 4 years overdue on my activation). But see, i had let a friend borrow my cd-key a while ago, so i just decided to reinstall; and started over again. After I did that, it gave me a blue screen after flashing the windows boot screen after about a second, and tells me that i need to run checkdsk, check for viruses, etc. SO.....i think i'll try installing on another hard drive i had and reinstalled windows on that. (I still have the other one hooked up and running...cause i need go get stuff off of it) When i try to boot, it still shows me the blue screen, even when booting off of the temporary hard drive. When i unhook my main harddrive, and just run the temp, it works fine. Why is this? I've got my jumper settings all right on my hdds, and i have no clue what to do. I have important data on my main hard drive, and my only other choice is to try reformatting. What should i try to do next? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindDrive Posted August 27, 2004 Posted August 27, 2004 its telling you to run checkdisk cause whenever you reset the bios completely it really messes with windows - while the drive isnt plugged in - reset the date and everything - then install the drive as a slave to retreive any data on it that is valuable then reformat the drive to fix it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
airman Posted August 27, 2004 Posted August 27, 2004 its telling you to run checkdisk cause whenever you reset the bios completely it really messes with windows - while the drive isnt plugged in - reset the date and everything - then install the drive as a slave to retreive any data on it that is valuable then reformat the drive to fix it okkkk..... 1) How do i run checkdisk 2) You think i haven't tried putting the drive as slave and booting? That's when i get the error! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted August 27, 2004 Posted August 27, 2004 is this an IDE or SATA drive? if IDE, is it shoing in the BIOS? what mode? LBA, auto? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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