Intermittent Hard Drive Problems on Boot. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware () Weird things going on here and haven't found much to help me: System is P4 2GHz on an Asus P4800 running XP SP1, latest updates. Two hard drives on Primary...

on CD and a second hard drive in the PC. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, BL Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () Both messages suggest an intermittent hard drive problem. For instance, it could...

as before during restart boot process. Okay, could be an intermittent drive problem. Have a cloned copy of this entire hard drive on another identical make/model hard drive. Tried that. Same two problems I noted continued to occur. Checked seating of...

when booting XP Pro. It seems to only be associated with hard drive activity and doesn't occur if i am just using my web browser, instant messenger, or any other non HD intensive activity. I never had the problem before i replaced my hard drives and am using...

They do not come with case speakers. But times this with boot problems, you really need one. Nothing new in the system except for the monitor in July. The problem started intermittantly in June and has become more pronounced as time goes by. It did start today...

After pressing the power button a few times (the first couple times it repeated the above), it started to boot like everything was fine. The entire BIOS whatever ran through like normal, got to the Windows Boot Options (I previously was dual booting Windows...

Hi my sister seems to be having freezing problems the last few days so i am going to scan her hard drive for problems but does anyone recommend a better program than scandisk. Also which is the best way to scan a hard drive, from windows, safe mode or...

a pesky problem like this. Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions? Please... :] ~l0st Run a hard drive repair utility like spin rite from a bootable disc like Hirens or The Ultimate Boot CD and leave it to run through all the tests, if your hard drive is ok and...

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () This is a hardware issue. Your hard drive could be failing. If it's not the hard drive then you have to take a look at the motherboard, but my professional guess would be the hard drive. Have they (Staples) replaced...

SATA/IDE Device' to 'Enabled'; set 'Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode' to 'IDE'; go to the 'Advanced BIOS Features' page, select 'Hard Disk Boot Priority', and hit ; select your boot drive from the list; set 'First Boot Device' to 'CDROM', 'Second Boot Device' to...