Dosage
02-14-04, 05:54 PM
Ok . . . . So im on my 3rd hd this month. Here's the story of my first one. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=269303
I couldn't resolve the problem with my western digital so I partitioned my 160gb maxtor and installed winxp on a 30gb partition. Now yesterday something happened to that drive as well. I went to add/remove programs from control panel and removed windows messenger since I had just finished downloading msn messenger. I restarted since it had prompted me to after the uninstall, after the computer had restarted it took a while loading up windows and when it finally did my screen just displayed the wallpaper for about a minute and then i recieved a message saying coudlnt not find "msmgs". I restarted, and BIOs seem to verify everything but i then got a message saying "disk read error ctrl+alt+delete to restart " I restarted 3 times and got the same message each time. I popped in my windows cd and tried to reinstall everything seemed to be going good so far, formatted the drive using NTFS created 2 partitions one 30gb and the other the remainder of the drive. It proceeded with the installation but when it got to 19% it said could not load "esentprf.ini" so I pressed esc to skip that file. It did not read any other files off the disk after that and when I tried to reinstall an additional 4 times it always froze up on the same file. I tried the cd on 2 other computers and it worked perfectly. At this point I took an old 20gb maxtor harddrive and installed windowsxp everything seems to be working so far. Whenever I try connecting the 2 drives (80gb western digital and 160gb maxtor) they are not detected in BIOS and my Primary master 20gb maxtor drive is not detected either. When the 20gb is by itself with the cd drive everything works. I really do not know what to do at this point. This is my setup:
CPU : AMD 3400+
Motherboard : MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R
RAM : Corsair value select 512x2 pc3200
PSU: Thermaltake Silent PurePower 560W
Vid Card: Nvidia Gforce4 mx 440
Let me know if I am leaving anything out. Sorry for the long messages but Im trying to provide as much detail as possible. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks.
I couldn't resolve the problem with my western digital so I partitioned my 160gb maxtor and installed winxp on a 30gb partition. Now yesterday something happened to that drive as well. I went to add/remove programs from control panel and removed windows messenger since I had just finished downloading msn messenger. I restarted since it had prompted me to after the uninstall, after the computer had restarted it took a while loading up windows and when it finally did my screen just displayed the wallpaper for about a minute and then i recieved a message saying coudlnt not find "msmgs". I restarted, and BIOs seem to verify everything but i then got a message saying "disk read error ctrl+alt+delete to restart " I restarted 3 times and got the same message each time. I popped in my windows cd and tried to reinstall everything seemed to be going good so far, formatted the drive using NTFS created 2 partitions one 30gb and the other the remainder of the drive. It proceeded with the installation but when it got to 19% it said could not load "esentprf.ini" so I pressed esc to skip that file. It did not read any other files off the disk after that and when I tried to reinstall an additional 4 times it always froze up on the same file. I tried the cd on 2 other computers and it worked perfectly. At this point I took an old 20gb maxtor harddrive and installed windowsxp everything seems to be working so far. Whenever I try connecting the 2 drives (80gb western digital and 160gb maxtor) they are not detected in BIOS and my Primary master 20gb maxtor drive is not detected either. When the 20gb is by itself with the cd drive everything works. I really do not know what to do at this point. This is my setup:
CPU : AMD 3400+
Motherboard : MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R
RAM : Corsair value select 512x2 pc3200
PSU: Thermaltake Silent PurePower 560W
Vid Card: Nvidia Gforce4 mx 440
Let me know if I am leaving anything out. Sorry for the long messages but Im trying to provide as much detail as possible. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks.