Hi David,

Will do! I thought that most of the info(.doc,.xls,mp3's etc) would still
be ok. The new drive will be installed shortly and info copied to the new
drive from the old. Thanks again to all!


"David L McMurray" <dlmcmurray@bellsouth-NOSPAM.net> wrote in message
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> "Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
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>
>> 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
>>>
> Or install the old drive as a second drive for non-critical info and to
> copy your salvageable files later. Drives are just too cheap to depend
> on a system drive that's showing defects.
>
> David