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XP Will Not Boot - HD Shows as RAW

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Name: Tommy Brents
Date: August 11, 2003 at 22:10:56 Pacific
OS: Win XP Home
CPU/Ram: 933 Mhz / 512 MB RAM
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Greetings,

Saturday I switched from a wireless to a hard-wired netowrk and ever since I've had problems.

My main problem right now is that one of my computers will not allow me to have access to my hard drive. I COULD boot Windows XP in safe mode but not anymore. When it gets to the "Loading User Settings" portion of login it just stays there.

Interestingly, before when I was able to access Windows through safemode, I was going to attempt to do a scandisk and defrag, but the file format appeared as RAW. The correct format is NTFS, but is not displayed as such for whatever reason.

The computer hasn't booted normally since I changed my network, but I was able to boot in safe mode until I removed Windows 2003 Enterprise evaluation from my boot file.

I loaded the evaluation on a second hard drive with ntfs format. I haven't deleted it yet, but just took it off the boot menu. Shortly after doing this, my computer began to freeze with all login attempts.

I recall getting an error about system pager file not being bif enough? Sound familiar?

Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks everyone.



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