"Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:euE2t$S6FHA.2560@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hello All,
> I have moved a HDD to a new mobo this weekend and followed the reinstall
> procedure from Michael Stevens from his site. Previously this HDD would
> not boot past the windows screen with the blue scroll, it would just
> reboot. I moved it to a new mobo and tried a repair install(to no
> avail,did the same thing), tried a chkdsk/r which it did find bad sectors
> but still did the same. I tried fixmbr and fixboot both of which still
> didnt work. It also will not go into SafeMode. I moved this drive
> because I wanted to upgrade from the previous mobo anyway so I thought
> this would work the same as if I tried this on the old Mobo. This is a
> new AsRock board w/2.8 processor, 1gb RAM Xp pro install on HDD. Bios for
> this mobo does find all periferals fine and all looked fine. Is there any
> other repair possiblities? Or do I need to replace?! I'm a bit
> disappointed with this HDD (Maxtor 160gb). This is the second time I've
> had 1 go bad in 3 years. Yes I guess I learned my lesson.
>
> Thanks for Any Reponses In Advance
>
If it still has bad sectors, throw it away. Perhaps the bad sectors caused
your problem with the old board.
Jim