Sammy Hall, Jr
December 9th 03, 11:16 AM
Hi,
I wonder if someone can come up with a good suggestion.
My problem is that I installed an 80 Gb hard drive on my Pentium II in
January, having to use the software I downloaded from the Seagate website
to get past the 34 Gb barrier. Operating system chosen was XP PRO, on NTFS
partition. I have now installed a new motherboard, PIV at 1.5 Ghz, with
capacity to recognise my 80 Gb without any tricks, but XP is not starting
properly. It gives me the "system was closed down incorrectly, choose how
you want to startup" message, and whatever option I choose it always
restarts the comuter after a few seconds. An instant before it restarts, a
message flashes across the screen, bu there is no time to see it before
restart occurs. I thought maybe I couild get rid of the dynamic drive
overlay, but the tools I have on disquette would only do this for FAT,
saying that I will lose all my data if I try to do this on NTFS.
I would really like to be ablke to continue using my current XP
installation, mainly as it has been regularly updated from the Microsoft
website.
Grateful for any help,
Regards
Sammy Hall JR
P.S. If I use a Linux/Knoppix CD I have no trouble accessing the
information stored in the NTFS partition.
I wonder if someone can come up with a good suggestion.
My problem is that I installed an 80 Gb hard drive on my Pentium II in
January, having to use the software I downloaded from the Seagate website
to get past the 34 Gb barrier. Operating system chosen was XP PRO, on NTFS
partition. I have now installed a new motherboard, PIV at 1.5 Ghz, with
capacity to recognise my 80 Gb without any tricks, but XP is not starting
properly. It gives me the "system was closed down incorrectly, choose how
you want to startup" message, and whatever option I choose it always
restarts the comuter after a few seconds. An instant before it restarts, a
message flashes across the screen, bu there is no time to see it before
restart occurs. I thought maybe I couild get rid of the dynamic drive
overlay, but the tools I have on disquette would only do this for FAT,
saying that I will lose all my data if I try to do this on NTFS.
I would really like to be ablke to continue using my current XP
installation, mainly as it has been regularly updated from the Microsoft
website.
Grateful for any help,
Regards
Sammy Hall JR
P.S. If I use a Linux/Knoppix CD I have no trouble accessing the
information stored in the NTFS partition.