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NT 4 Recovery option
Name: krownkpb Date: August 30, 2006 at 04:11:16 Pacific OS: NT 4 CPU/Ram: pMMX200 32mb Product: gigabyte
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System crashed after power spike. Showing corrupted dll on subsequent boots. Trying (R)ecovery opion with boot cd, however it will not show HD at that point in time, and will not find a previous installation. ??? I am using both hd and CDrom on same IDE cable, cd as secondary drive. How can I make my previous installation show up?
Name: dosser Date: August 30, 2006 at 05:36:08 Pacific
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Does the hard drive show correctly in Bios ?
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Response Number 2
Name: krownkpb Date: August 30, 2006 at 05:59:45 Pacific
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Yes it does, cd is slave to HD, cmos is set to boot from cd. When NT starts it shows the cd on IDE controller but does not show hard drive. I am going to place cd on master of secondary IDE and try that.
kpb
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: August 31, 2006 at 12:03:15 Pacific
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Run an NT Repair from the Installation CD.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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Response Number 4
Name: krownkpb Date: September 1, 2006 at 04:10:58 Pacific
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uh, Running the NT repair from the CD is where this conversation began. It doesn't work.
kpb
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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 1, 2006 at 05:00:16 Pacific
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I would say then to piggy-back the drive on another machine, copy your data over, and then start fresh.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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Response Number 6
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: September 7, 2006 at 20:45:36 Pacific
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agree with the last post, throw it in a usb enclosure and use 2K or xp to pull/back up the data. You can spend all kinds of time trying to get it to repair but, much of the time, it just doesnt work s reinstalling ends up being what you do anyway
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Response Number 7
Name: wanderer Date: September 18, 2006 at 10:58:25 Pacific
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Problem is you are not providing the NT ide controller driver during the F6 phase of setup. This is why the drive and hence the OS install is not found.
Find and put on a floppy disk the ide driver for your controller. Hit f6 when you see it in the lower left corner during setup and install the driver.
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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