formatting a drive
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The_Other_One
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Why not just format using your Windows disk then reload windows?
bratton
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http://www.computerforum.com/86961-cannot-get-into-windows.html
thats why
(reformatting not possible)
thats why
(reformatting not possible)
Download the Sata drivers and put them on a floppy, boot to your XP cd, at the F6 promp put in the floppy and load the Sata drivers then go on with the format and install. On that board you should not have to use a floppy to load the sata drivers, they should be on the XP cd
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That's why GParted live for cd comes in handy at times. When going to create a driver floppy first boot with the Asus software disk and use the option to format the floppy there. Once done load the disk on another system to use the create sata driver disk option while in Windows. This will insure that the XP installer is able to load all of the drivers needed.
Simply downloading and slapping the drivers on a floppy won't work. For some reason the way the Asus board disk formats the floppy is fussy there. But it works over simply throwing the drivers on. Once made up boot off of the XP cd and you can choose between deletion of the current or saving time by trying a repair install of Windows to get things running again. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Simply downloading and slapping the drivers on a floppy won't work. For some reason the way the Asus board disk formats the floppy is fussy there. But it works over simply throwing the drivers on. Once made up boot off of the XP cd and you can choose between deletion of the current or saving time by trying a repair install of Windows to get things running again. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Well for one thing he has a Nforce 4 chipset so he should not need a floppy, so there another problem going on. Second I have installed all kinds of Asus boards and just putting them on a floppy has (allways) worked if I needed to install them. You must a have (alot) of crap hardware or a bad user. And I am sure you can give me a bunch of examples of how it didnt work for (YOU)
What do chipset do you think on one of the systems here? nForce 4! I find it highly doubtful that "you" always see results when it's common for the XP installer simply not to see a sata drive without drivers loaded correctly.
Well that first sentence didnt make any sense? But you really dont know what chipset sata drivers are on XP do you! Theres just a few chipsets that even need Sata drivers for even Windows 2000 much less XP. I can tell you havent done nowhere near as much computer work as you claimed you have. Now am I talking with PCeye or one of the other ones that fill in! Because you cant know some of the stuff you say then be way off on simple stuff like you are. Or is it you just make yourself believe what you (think) is right!
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To you alone that won't make sense. But if you read further...
At this point the need to determine if anything more then a repair install is actually needed to see Windows running normally rather then rushing to reformat the drive. Even for a fresh copy of Windowss to go on you generally don't wipe the drive entirely unless you know there's some type of virus running rampant on it. A little more information on the actual error seen would help even more. You may not even need a repair install.
Read further, what for, your endless on and on B/S. All you just said, I said in 1 sentence in post 6, the first line!
bratton
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where do i get the sata drivers from?
(if you didnt look at my other thread, the specific problem is with "ql10wnt.sys" )
also... i downloaded the boot disks file from windows which has the problem file in it. will running the boot discs get me past the reformat/repair stage where the CD unfortunately fails?
(if you didnt look at my other thread, the specific problem is with "ql10wnt.sys" )
also... i downloaded the boot disks file from windows which has the problem file in it. will running the boot discs get me past the reformat/repair stage where the CD unfortunately fails?
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Do you have this, QLogic ISP PCI Adapter. Pretty sure the file has to do with the adapter. The file should be on the XP cd. Try a different CD drive or clean your Windows CD.
That's also used for qLogic parallel SCSI host adapters. You can download the file directly from http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rframes/info_sys/info_q/6.htm
There's one method for recovery using the ERD comnmander.
A. ERD Commander is a fantastic tool by http://www.winternals.com which gives access to NT systems by booting off modified Windows NT setup disks which allows access to not only the file system but also the registry and many other items to enable you to recover an unbootable NT system. It also gives access to removable media allowing you to replace corrupted system files, something you otherwise can't do without a second NT installation on the machine. The professional version also allows you to change passwords from outside of NT! http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=14732
There's one method for recovery using the ERD comnmander.
A. ERD Commander is a fantastic tool by http://www.winternals.com which gives access to NT systems by booting off modified Windows NT setup disks which allows access to not only the file system but also the registry and many other items to enable you to recover an unbootable NT system. It also gives access to removable media allowing you to replace corrupted system files, something you otherwise can't do without a second NT installation on the machine. The professional version also allows you to change passwords from outside of NT! http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=14732
elitehacker
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I'm sure you can find generic SATA drivers on the internet somewhere, just google it.