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Topic Started: Mar 3 2006, 04:19 PM (264 Views)
Johnny Mullet
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My trusty emachine has bit the dust :die

A friend gave me a Compaq Presario to look at since it did not work, so I diagnosed it to find the MB was toast :stoner

He asked me if I could save the pics off his harddrive, so I set his hard drive as "slave" and plugged it into my emachine at work. I can get into BIOS, but Windows would not load up :unsure:

After hours of screwing around with it, I decided to put my PC back together the way it was and now it still will not load Windows :holycrap

I am not a computer genius or anything, but I am pretty good with working on them, but this has got me stumped :banghead
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Burnin'Nate

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So... your sure your buddy's PC dint have some kind of virus?
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Johnny Mullet
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I have no idea. I think I confused the thing or something.
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BAPHOMET
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Can u see the disk from BIOS? If not there's something wrong with the hardware, maybe the cable or something.

Else

Try booting from your windows CD and see if you can see the windowspartition from there. If you can there's hope :)
Try repairing your windows (press R from the menu), or if you doesn't have a windows version with Repair, the try runing the command "fixboot" from the "repair" commandprompt. There is another "FIX*" command I can't remember, but u can see it if you run "dir fix*.*" from the "repair" commandprompt.

Wish u luck :die
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Johnny Mullet
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BIOS does see the HD and the model # is correct.

I tried to boot from XP SP1 CD and here is what happens............

"To boot from CD press any key"
I press a key :rolleyes:

"Checking system configuration"
After a long, long time nothing happens :blink:

I thought maybe it was a PSU problem or something not seated properly so I gutted the emachine and put it all into a Dell Dimension series case I have that has a known good PSU.

Here are the pics, but same problem..................

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Burnin'Nate

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Try getting it to start in safe mode by pressing F8 while it boots up, at some point it should give you a list of options. Maybe something got juked out of whack in windows and it just needs a good reboot from safemode. Im decent with PCs and I can say without a doubt Ive never heard of one forgetting about windows when you put a different HD in it. I used to run virus scans for a mom & pop PC repair place in my town every day by doing just what you did. :dunno

Only other thing I can think of is XP has a tendency to shut down if it thinks you have installed the HD on a different machine. I did a bunch of upgrades one time (including mobo) and it went all whacko on me and shut down. I had to call MS and get another friggin CD key to activate it again. This would only apply if you are in fact running XP...

If all else fails take it to a shop... unless of course your like me and have MS on speed dial for easy activation. (Hint at just reinstalling windows)
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Plug the HDD as an extra drive. Open the your computer and you will be able to see what is on the drive.

By trying to open the OS on that drive you were trying to access, most likely it won't boot since the MBR was produced by the original computer.

I think adding it as an extra drive is the best way to retrieve what you need to save on that HDD.

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Dont use single port ide cables even if its the only drive on the channel.

Keep messing around with the master/slave/cable select jumpers until you can see both of them in the bios.

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Johnny Mullet
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Well, I have it working fine with a 6GB Hard Drive and Windows 98SE. I got my 40GB drive back from my buddy. He had it repaired under warranty and it was wiped with a fresh install of XP. I cannot get it to boot!

I took the HD and stuck it in a test PC and it booted up right away. I put it in the emachine, and I get a blinking cursor. It is probably something simple I am missing.
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The emachine bios may not give you the option of which hard drive to boot from. Also, some emachines used to no tlet you install other operating systems ie Windows 2000. I dont know how they did this but its in hardware (at least at the bios level).

For some reason we were able to put on Windows XP SP2 (its an emachine).
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