Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:13:55 Post Subject: My XP partition won't boot all of a sudden
I have a dual boot drive with xp pro and vista x64 ult on it. It's been working fine for about 5 months, but now it starts to load the os and freezes up on the blue windows screen before login. The only thing different I did, which I don't think should affect it, is clone the partition to another drive, it was immediately following that though that it stopped working. I tried to boot into safe mode but have not been able to, it goes right to the safe mode, f8, screen for vista.
Is there any way to fix this?
How can I force it go into safe mode for xp?
thanx _________________ Lian Li PC-6077B
Asus P5E
Intel Duo E8400
G-Skill F2800, PC2 8500, 2 x 2G
EVGA 8800GTS(@600, 902)
Corsair TX750
Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 8228 Location: In the naughty zone
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:19:14 Post Subject:
What he said. Sometimes the cloning process goes wrong... and instead of a smart intelligent human being we end up with a George W Bush. Looks like it should work, no reason why it doesn't work right... but it just doesn't.
_________________ I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. - Oath of office of the President of the United States
"We spent 30 years digging ourselves into this hole. It won't be solved soon." - U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman
What he said. Sometimes the cloning process goes wrong... and instead of a smart intelligent human being we end up with a George W Bush. Looks like it should work, no reason why it doesn't work right... but it just doesn't.
I'm talking about the source drive. The clone though, I made with Norton Ghost and wasn't able to get to boot. I just got the program so I haven't really figured it out yet. The problem is not with the cloned drive, although that doesn't work, it just so happens that after I tried to clone it is when the primary drive stopped working. It's probably coincidental as I can't see what that would do to my source drive.
One thing I realized that could be a factor is that I'm running xp on a pretty small partition, ~12GB, and have very little room left on it, like 980mB, I originally wasn't going to use it for much, but I've found that I use it quite a bit, I wish I had made the partition bigger.
Thanks,
df _________________ Lian Li PC-6077B
Asus P5E
Intel Duo E8400
G-Skill F2800, PC2 8500, 2 x 2G
EVGA 8800GTS(@600, 902)
Corsair TX750
Not sure since it's a dual boot, but could the master boot record be toast? If that's the case, I think the only possible fix is to boot off the XP disc, and use the repair console. FixMBR I think is the command to fix the master boot record, however be aware that depending on how corrupt it is, it could wipe the partition.
That's only a thought though, and could be WAY off base
Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 8228 Location: In the naughty zone
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:58:37 Post Subject:
I was thinking around the same thing there HF.
Or you could try to load GRUB... but.... I probably wouldn't try that. _________________ I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. - Oath of office of the President of the United States
"We spent 30 years digging ourselves into this hole. It won't be solved soon." - U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman
Not sure since it's a dual boot, but could the master boot record be toast? If that's the case, I think the only possible fix is to boot off the XP disc, and use the repair console. FixMBR I think is the command to fix the master boot record, however be aware that depending on how corrupt it is, it could wipe the partition.
That's only a thought though, and could be WAY off base
I tried to load the repair console off the xp disc I have, I couldn't get into it though, I think bcz using a stripped down version of xp, so I just went ahead and reformatted the partition, I figured that would be less of a headache.
Problem now though is it goes straight into xp, and doesn't recognize the vista partition, very frustrating, it worked fine when I first set it up. I'm wondering if it's the version of xp I'm using, someone stripped it down and tweaked it, it looks kinda like NT but it's xp pro and it's extremely fast. I can't get it to install setpoint though, so I'm going to try installing a different version (corporate) probably.
Could that be what's causing my other partition not to be recognized? (I'm sure I formatted the right partition)
thanks
rlr _________________ Lian Li PC-6077B
Asus P5E
Intel Duo E8400
G-Skill F2800, PC2 8500, 2 x 2G
EVGA 8800GTS(@600, 902)
Corsair TX750
Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 1244 Location: Computer
Posted: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:19:37 Post Subject:
Does the Vista partition get recognized when you are booted into XP?
You could try running 'msconfig' in XP and seeing if there are any signs of your Vista Partition in the boot.ini tab. If theres no luck there, I think i'd just install grub from a livecd and manually write the boot entries to where the OS's are located on the harddisks. (Assuming they're not autodetected). _________________ Currently being eaten by a system called Oracle9i, gosh it's sticky in here.
Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 795 Location: Snohomish, WA USA
Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:13:46 Post Subject:
Ok now you have to reload Vista.
rule of thumb for multi-boot windows load the oldest version first, newest last.
In your case vista actually controlled the boot menu and reloading XP wiped that out.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
