Help, Help, Help!! Somebody plz!

Sun Apr 25, 2004 7:29 am by Leonhart

MAn Esq...u were right. Damn African asshole that sent me that email!!

Well yesturday my PC got totaly ****ed up. I went to competition yesturday and got back home at 5 to find my PC on and with system error. There was corrupt/missiong file in windows/system32/config I believe if memory serves me right. I used Compaq Operating System to fix the corrupted file, but than it asked me for Administrator password...wtf I do not even have a password on my PC

. Anyway pissed I accidently installed new fresh copy of XP on D drive, and now I had 2 XP operating systems installed, corupted one on C drive, and new one on D drive. Anyway I was able to log in to PC with XP from D drive and was able to back up some important files so that I could reformat like I did before. Well I put the Recovery CD into the CD drive boot up the PC and get an error from Recovery CD. Well as Recovery CD was booting up I saw there there were 2 drives, Master and Slave...so I think that could be the problem.

WTF should I do now? I cant use Recovery CD and I have fresh copy of XP on my PC which does not have anything...no MS word, no Outlook, No noyhing except most important programs

. Does anybody know of a way to fix this??

EDIT:
Also according to my Sister and Dad, PC turned on by its self...they did not turn it on in the morning...and I turned if of night before, weird

Edited by - Leonhart on 4/25/2004 8:30:20 AM

Sun Apr 25, 2004 7:30 am by Gowserpaul

Imho u are screwed m8

I am the Master of Disaster!!!!!!!!

Sun Apr 25, 2004 7:33 am by freighter fighter

Trojan.

My life just flashed before my eyes, and it was rather boring.

Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:10 am by Tawakalna

1. pc's can turn themselves on, because they never really go off, just onto deep standby, unless you kill the power (that's one of the things ATX power does, keeps a trickle of power in) so Wake-On Ring or Wake-On LAN has prob fired your pc up, or some other PME set in the bios.

2. it's very common for branded pc's to have 2 partitions (which appear as drives) on one physical drive, one (C) for os and data, the other (D) for storage and installs.

3. the standard XP install has Outlook Express & Wordpad as default; do you have a recovery cd for Office, cos that's what puts Outlook and Word on. If not you'll have to get a copy of Office.

4. don't open shady e-mails. How many times have me, Eskie, and Mustie told you about this? Sort some proper AV and anti-spam s'ware next time.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 4/25/2004 9:58:06 AM

Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:58 am by Leonhart

The thing is I cant use Recovery CD like last time

. Here is what it says when I put the Recovery CD in and reboot (this is what appears before the error report)

Microsoft PAMDrive version 3.06 virtual disk C:
Disk Size: 3072kb
Sector Size: 512 bytes
Allocation unit: 2 sectors
Directory entries: 64

Atapi IDE CD-ROM device driver version 1.23A
2 drive(s) detected
unit 1, MASTER, IRQ 15, 1/o adress 0t0170
unit 2, SLAVE, IRQ 15, 1/o adress 0t0170

MODE prepare code function completed

Mode select code function comleted

MSCDEX version 2.25
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp. 1986-1995. All rights reserved.
Drive N: = Driver IDECD001 Unit 0
Drive O: = Driver IDECD001 Unit 1

Also the thing is that when ever I restart the PC it asks me to choose the operating system (did not do it before), and both of them are Windows XP

Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:02 am by Tawakalna

because u have 2 os on two separate partitions, so it's giving you a choice. also that "error" message you have isn't erroneous at all, it's a dos start boot environment loading up real-mode drivers for the cd-rom. if you check the contents of that Ramdrive, you'll find the fdisk and format commands and a load of other stuff.

Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:53 pm by Esquilax

*Starts laughing and then sobers up when Leon glares at him* Sorry

. Your problems could be a coincidence, but let's not worry about the cause for now. What Taw has stated is correct; the RAMDrive is a virtual drive that holds the setup files, and it is working properly as it has mapped two CD Drives drives as "N" and "O". You should be at a command line after that, and simply select the drive with the setup disk in it (eg. type "N:" ), and then type "setup" or whatever the exectuable on the CD is. Your problem isn't really that serious (I've seen far worse), but it will take a while to clean up.

*Shakes finger at TLR masses* I hope you've all learnt a lesson!

Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:26 am by Leonhart

If you mean typing "N" at the above thing...tried it, did not work

If not...could you plz explain littel more on how to choose the drive

Or just tell me how to uninstall the second XP version, that shoudl fix it as well? Right?

Edited by - Leonhart on 4/26/2004 12:44:21 PM

Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:34 pm by Boscoe

There's a simple rule with computers. To cure the disease you must kill the patient. Find an old win98 or winME startup disk, and delete all partitions, and start from scratch. You've already got your system so screwed up that you can't save any info, so just give up, grab a nice cold beer, and throw that boot disk in the a drive and fdisk away your problems.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
The Next Thing I Say To You Will Be True
The Last Thing I Said Was False

Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:12 pm by Leonhart

I wish it would be that simple...I dont have an 98 disk, and Recovery CD does not work right now, only way is to get only one Drive, and I have 2...O and N

Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:35 pm by Esquilax

If you are at a command line, you should have a prompt that looks like this;

C:\Temp> - Where "C" is the drive letter, and "Temp" is the folder that you are in (if
any) To select a drive, you simply use the following;

C:\>N: - "N:" being the drive you wish to change to. Then press Enter.

If you need a boot disk, try BootDisk.com. Then you can make a nice clean installation after you delete all of the partitions. Make sure that you have a proper copy of XP though!

Edited by - esquilax on 4/26/2004 3:36:37 PM

Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:34 pm by Arania

The Most drastic(but very effective) way to fix the buggered thing would be to take both HDDs out, put them in an empty computer, use a heavily firewalled computer to network to the other two drives, map them, and them format them remotely, if it wont let you do it because of security passwords on either drive, leave a big magnet on top of the drives for a day or two until all the data gets corrupted and format it again

Formatting the drives over a networking link is the best i can think of now, other than that you could just put them in another computer with WinXPPro or WinServer and format them that way, the data is no doubt corruped completely and a fres blank drive is you best bet.

BUT, if you have one drive that will boot, use that to format your original drive, then reinstall XP on that drive, boot to the new drive, format the secondary, and your all set, you should hopefully end up with an empty drive as a secondary and a primary drive with XP that will boot.

Hope that Helps

Arania

Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:36 pm by Tawakalna

look, you do not have 2 drives, you have 2 partitions on one drive. if you cange to the N drive by typing as Esq has shown you, you can use the fdisk command (ask here first, ok?) and remove the partitions, then repartition as 1 full disk size partition so you can install XP clean.

Why exactly are your drive designations such high letters? your primary partition should be seen as C: CD/DVD usually seen as D:, E:< rarely higher than G: or H: somethings not right here. I suspect you have loads of non-dos partitions on that drive, and the recovery disk is making fresh partitions for you by an automated process. How's that sound, Esq?

Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:01 pm by Esquilax

I tend to agree, Taw; I was wondering that myself. I assumed that the "N" and "O" issue was an outgrowth of the complexity of HP's patition setup, but it could be a series of fresh partitions (although I assumed that the setup disk was creating temporary RAM drives that shouldn't show up on a reboot; unless they are some variety of TSRs!). Actually, now that I think about it, it is possible that the setup disk is mapping the two CD-ROM drives as "N" and "O" in order that they will not conflict with HDD partitions. By having the CD drives mapped there, the setup can accomodate a large number of partitions as well as RAM drives. But MSCDEX maps to the next available drive(s) anyway! Bloody Compaq!

Mmm, yep. FDISK is the way to go. We'll walk him through the process, and give him one partition. That's probably the easiest option, and will make troubleshooting a hell of a lot easier.

Arania - Don't confuse him. He has enough problems already

.

Edited by - esquilax on 4/26/2004 5:04:14 PM

Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:37 pm by Leonhart

What the?? Well I put "N:" in the comand line and it says system cant find the drive ("invalid drive specification" is what it says). I used Comman Prompt, same thing....same as for run and all other palces where I can put the drive name, in this case "N:". "O:" does not work either...

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