Thank You Jim. I was hoping for another way but I believe you are correct
and I will be putting a new HDD in (not a Maxtor). Thank You again


"Jim" <j.n@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> 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
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