Hi ! Yesterday i purchased a New CPU and installed Vista Ultimate (DELL OEM). It worked well till this morning. BUT , later, it suddenly hanged and i was forced to Reboot. [ By that time, i inserted an external Hard Disk in the USB which contains Win XP in it, but i removed the jumper from that HDD ] ...

So i restarted and removed the External HDD... There the problem started. While booting OS, it showed few errors and refused to boot. I tried re-installing Vista. It installed well and even the desktop came. But after reboot, the same problem emerged again.

So, now i am confused and clueless. What shall i do now? I am now using my old PC and want to switch back to my new one soon.

The error message i got :

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Find--set-root/bootmgr

Warning : Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft - comptible FDISK tool(err=22). Current=266305/246/63

Error 17 : File Not Found
Booting 'Windows NT/2000/XP'.

Warning : Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft - comptible FDISK tool(err=22). Current=266305/246/63
fallback 2
Find--set-root/ntldr

Warning : Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft - comptible FDISK tool(err=22). Current=266305/246/63

Error 17 : File Not Found
Booting 'Enter command line'

Warning : Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft - comptible FDISK tool(err=22). Current=266305/246/63

Boot Failed! Press Any key to enter command line.

WHEN I PREESSED A KEY, I GOT THE FOLLOWING MSG

GRUB4DOS 0.4.3 2007-03-13, Memory 572k/2021M, codeend : 0x3D7BC
[Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the ..., TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else, TAB lists the possible command of a device/filename. ESC at anytime exits ]

grub>

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How to fix this? Kindly guide me plz.

iw ould guess the xp was causing problems, format the visa hd and do not insert the xp exturnal. instal visa on a clean drive (formated not just writing over.) and see if u can restart vista. if u cant restart vista after a freash clean instal..then it is mostlikly a bad disk or a bad hd.

Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!

Why did you buy a new CPU (central processing unit) and is it compatable with you existing motherboard ??

i'm guessing when he says new cpu hw doesn't mean proccesoor, but the whole case

Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Yeah.. By CPU , I mean Motherboard + Processor + RAM + Hard Disk. Collectively i used the term CPU ( i thought it was right ! :-D )...

Ok . .

[b]@ Cody [/b]

I have already tried formatting and re-installing Vista. Even then, the same problem exists.

I tried via repair option in Vista DVD. It said that there is some error and it will fix it. Few seconds later, it asked for a reboot. But gain, while rebooting, the same thing happened and it said booting failed.

... wat a mess

sounds like even linux tried install on that
thing?

... anyway I'd Fdisk /MBR

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

... and experiment(?)

plz compare:

http://www.computing.net/windowsvis...

... happy boogle'n

Install XP and then run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. It may be that the computer is not fit to run Windows Vista.

    
 

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