glowingnissan07
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WIndows XP HOME SP2
Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.8 GHz
1 GB RAM
SONY VAIO
I have 2 HDDs installed on my machine. I don't remember the name brands, but
under properties i have this:
ST312022A
WDC WD3200AAJB-00WGA0
SMYPTOMS:
I only had the 120 GB one hooked up so i could copy the files from that one
to my 300 GB. But when i tired to unhook the 120 GB, my pc wouldn't boot up
past the first SONY screen, even tho the OS is definately installed on my new
one (300). Obviously, i tired the opposite, and it at least got past that
part and i ended up at a "Improper boot device" error. so that didnt work
So the past few months ive been using both hooked up together, although i use
the old one for nothing. it just sits there with my old files on it. But
lately ive been having extremely random computer crashing, every time needing
a hard boot. Sometimes it happens within 5 minutes after loggin on,
sometimes, it wont crash until hours later, when im shutting down. It happens
on a variety of different events, but usually only crashes when i open some
kind of program or file, or have the pc do some other mundane task.
Accompanying the crashes, ive been noticing the old HDD disk
spinning/squeaking at random points while im usuallygaming. Of course, my new
games are installed on my new HDD, so i have no idea what its doing at all.
I've tried CHKDSK, which didnt do anything until recently where it apparently
repaired some back blocks, and moved some "orphaned files" - but i dont know
what that means, because even after it did that it still froze.
If i could get my pc to boot only off my new HDD, i pretty sure it would
solve it. If not, could someone give me a way to clear my old HDD and disable
it forever, without harming my new one?
the only system errors ive been getting in the logs are
ati2mtag CRT:invalid display type
W32Time: Time Provider NtpClient: An error occurred during DNS lookup
of the manually configured peer 'time.windows.com,0x1'. NtpClient will try
the DNS lookup again in 30 minutes. The error was: A socket operation was
attempted to an unreachable host. (0x80072751)
Service Control Manager:The mrtRate service failed to start due to the
following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
Disk:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the
chkdsk utility on the volume D:.
help greatly appreciated
Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.8 GHz
1 GB RAM
SONY VAIO
I have 2 HDDs installed on my machine. I don't remember the name brands, but
under properties i have this:
ST312022A
WDC WD3200AAJB-00WGA0
SMYPTOMS:
I only had the 120 GB one hooked up so i could copy the files from that one
to my 300 GB. But when i tired to unhook the 120 GB, my pc wouldn't boot up
past the first SONY screen, even tho the OS is definately installed on my new
one (300). Obviously, i tired the opposite, and it at least got past that
part and i ended up at a "Improper boot device" error. so that didnt work
So the past few months ive been using both hooked up together, although i use
the old one for nothing. it just sits there with my old files on it. But
lately ive been having extremely random computer crashing, every time needing
a hard boot. Sometimes it happens within 5 minutes after loggin on,
sometimes, it wont crash until hours later, when im shutting down. It happens
on a variety of different events, but usually only crashes when i open some
kind of program or file, or have the pc do some other mundane task.
Accompanying the crashes, ive been noticing the old HDD disk
spinning/squeaking at random points while im usuallygaming. Of course, my new
games are installed on my new HDD, so i have no idea what its doing at all.
I've tried CHKDSK, which didnt do anything until recently where it apparently
repaired some back blocks, and moved some "orphaned files" - but i dont know
what that means, because even after it did that it still froze.
If i could get my pc to boot only off my new HDD, i pretty sure it would
solve it. If not, could someone give me a way to clear my old HDD and disable
it forever, without harming my new one?
the only system errors ive been getting in the logs are
ati2mtag CRT:invalid display type
W32Time: Time Provider NtpClient: An error occurred during DNS lookup
of the manually configured peer 'time.windows.com,0x1'. NtpClient will try
the DNS lookup again in 30 minutes. The error was: A socket operation was
attempted to an unreachable host. (0x80072751)
Service Control Manager:The mrtRate service failed to start due to the
following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
Disk:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the
chkdsk utility on the volume D:.
help greatly appreciated