Dell 8200 HD problems:

I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast Professional,
Windows Defender and Windows firewall.

(1) TB HD
Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
Ram 12.0 GB
System type : 64-bit operating system

I also have

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP3, with Spywareblaster,
Avast, Malwarebytes and Windows firewall.


Seagate Barracuda 7200 160 Gb HD
Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 1.80 GHz
Ram 1.79 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
System type : 32-bit operating system

and (external hard drives)

Seagate Backup Plus 1(TB) 2.5 USB Portable HD

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200
RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
Hard Drive

The problem is with the 8200; what happened was this.
I had it running an Avast scan but the screen went
black because I hadn't moved the mouse which is usually
no problem, right? Well, for whatever reason I could
not get the screen to respond so I finally just powered
it off.

When I powered it up, it gave me a choice of logging
on in the safe mode(s) or normal which I selected
but it keeps looping so I did a F8 and selected last
known configuration where settings worked but it
is looping.

So do I need to install a Mrimg file?

Thanks
Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast Professional,
Windows Defender and Windows firewall.

(1) TB HD
Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
Ram 12.0 GB
System type : 64-bit operating system

I also have

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP3, with Spywareblaster,
Avast, Malwarebytes and Windows firewall.


Seagate Barracuda 7200 160 Gb HD
Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 1.80 GHz
Ram 1.79 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
System type : 32-bit operating system

and (external hard drives)

Seagate Backup Plus 1(TB) 2.5 USB Portable HD

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200
RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
Hard Drive

The problem is with the 8200; what happened was this.
I had it running an Avast scan but the screen went
black because I hadn't moved the mouse which is usually
no problem, right? Well, for whatever reason I could
not get the screen to respond so I finally just powered
it off.

When I powered it up, it gave me a choice of logging
on in the safe mode(s) or normal which I selected
but it keeps looping so I did a F8 and selected last
known configuration where settings worked but it
is looping.

So do I need to install a Mrimg file?

Thanks
Robert

Restore from backup, is a relatively easy way
to fix a computer.

I hope you have a backup with a recent date on it,
your Macrium Reflect Free boot CD for the 8200 is
ready to go.

The only thing bad about Restore From Backup, is
it doesn't preserve your Bookmarks file. The age of
the Bookmarks, will be the age of the backup file.
If you made the backup two weeks ago, the bookmarks
will be two weeks out of date.

If you boot the Macrium Reflect Free boot CD, and
you look in the lower left corner, there is a
blue icon. That icon is for "Macrium PE Explorer",
a kind of file explorer. With your internal drive
inside the 8200, and your connected external USB drive,
start the Macrium PE Explorer (blue icon) and attempt to
navigate around the 8200 internal drive C: partition. If you
can figure out where the Bookmarks file is that
you want, you can click it, and use the right-click menu
to select "Copy". Then, navigate to the external drive
as your destination, right-click into an empty folder
pane and select "Paste" from the right-click menu.
In that way, it is possible to copy a file from the
"broken" setup, before you do the Restore From Backup
attempt.

Paul

I wasn't worried too much about bookmarks
as its only a backup so I was going to
just do a Mrimg but the 8200 didn't acknowledge
the external HD when I connected it and I
tired twice. So my only recourse I suppose
is to replace the HD with the 320GB spare
we already set up.


Thoughts?
Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I wasn't worried too much about bookmarks
as its only a backup so I was going to
just do a Mrimg but the 8200 didn't acknowledge
the external HD when I connected it and I
tired twice. So my only recourse I suppose
is to replace the HD with the 320GB spare
we already set up.


Thoughts?
Robert

So when you:

1) Connected the external USB drive to the 8200.
2) Booted the correct Macrium CD for the 8200.
3) And it couldn't detect the USB drive then ?

Is that what happened ?

Paul

On Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 11:28:19 PM UTC-8, Paul wrote:
Mark Twain wrote:
I wasn't worried too much about bookmarks
as its only a backup so I was going to
just do a Mrimg but the 8200 didn't acknowledge
the external HD when I connected it and I
tired twice. So my only recourse I suppose
is to replace the HD with the 320GB spare
we already set up.


Thoughts?
Robert

So when you:

1) Connected the external USB drive to the 8200.
2) Booted the correct Macrium CD for the 8200.
3) And it couldn't detect the USB drive then ?

Is that what happened ?

Paul

correct

Mark Twain wrote:
On Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 11:28:19 PM UTC-8, Paul wrote:
Mark Twain wrote:
I wasn't worried too much about bookmarks
as its only a backup so I was going to
just do a Mrimg but the 8200 didn't acknowledge
the external HD when I connected it and I
tired twice. So my only recourse I suppose
is to replace the HD with the 320GB spare
we already set up.


Thoughts?
Robert
So when you:

1) Connected the external USB drive to the 8200.
2) Booted the correct Macrium CD for the 8200.
3) And it couldn't detect the USB drive then ?

Is that what happened ?

Paul

correct

When the USB backup drive is connect to your
other computer, is it detected there ? I'm checking
to see if the drive failed.

How the Macrium CD is prepared, can affect how
a USB3 port works on a computer. As far as I know,
your 8200 has USB2 and USB 1.1. And the USB2 was
by means of a PCI card with USB2 chip on it. AFAIK,
the WinPE environment knows how to initialize the
PCI card type for USB2, at a minimum.

On my test machine right now, with Macrium CD booted,
there is the blue "PE Explorer" icon in the lower left
corner (third from the left), and when I click and
use that, my USB drive is visible in the Removable Media
section. Which secion of PE Explorer it is in, will depend
on the RMB (removable media) bit. So your drive might be
in the top section of the window, while my USB is in the
bottom section.

HTH,
Paul

On 02/21/2016 06:55 AM, Mark Twain wrote:

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When I powered it up, it gave me a choice of logging
on in the safe mode(s) or normal which I selected
but it keeps looping so I did a F8 and selected last
known configuration where settings worked but it
is looping.

So do I need to install a Mrimg file?

Thanks
Robert




Before you restore from image, you may want to just try booting from a
utility cd and run chkdsk /f


Hirens boot cd has a mini xp install you can use