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I have heard that a hard drive controller chip can "flake out" and cause a lot of hard drive problems. Its hard to know if its the controller or the hard drive because of so many symptoms. Since Geek Squad put a new hard drive in it, that may eliminate the hard drive failure. I would try installing Windows XP or even Linux on it to make sure the motherboard is working correctly. If it still has problems, then something on the motherboard (chipset) may be the problem. Its rare, but does happen. I have the same problem with a Lenovo notebook at work. It refuses to install Vista, XP and even Fedora 13 froze up. I'm figuring its a hard drive failure, but I DID run Fedora off a flash drive and did hard drive diagnostic test. It passed all of them.... pretty strange. I'm going to pull out the hard drive and use a USB adapter to make sure its spinning up and mounting to my XP system. If I can format the drive, then it should be ready to go.... Let us know what happens
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do you know if the operating system needs to be 32-bit or 64-bit. you can't repair or restore a 64-bit with a 32-bit and vice-versa
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Oh, yeah... I have seen computers with SATA drives that require a setting in the BIOS to make them run in an IDE fashion. something like set SATA as IDE
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well, I think I've narrowed the issue down to the optical drive. I unhooked it from its retaining mechanism so its now laying parallel with the desk instead of perpendicular and so far the recovery disks are actually working. currently at 44% of the recovery process. if this doesn't work I'll see if it acts differently with some of the SATA settings.
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Hey Mark, didn't know you were up this early.... Optical Drive huh? Thats rare, but does happen. If you can get Windows recovered(reinstalled) and the DVD still doesn't work correctly, then you can always try booting from a flash drive and installing Windows that way. I have never done it, but I'm sure there is a way.
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Thats nice of you. I hope you are a morning person. I wake up at 5am just to play video games. All the girls are sleeping so its MY TIME! My wife refused to learn manual transmission also. I gave her one lesson and she did really well, but if you don't practice every day you aint gonna get it. Glad the install is working out. Are you able to login windows yet?
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Very nice. Glad you got it worked out. What are your plans for the DVD? replacement?
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Not sure. That one is in my dad's hands. He just cares about the computer working at this point. After I had finished his computer I went to work on my rig. Its been years since I've really done anything to it so it needed a little TLC. Wires were no longer tidy and I wanted to reorganize the front bay. After moving some HDD's around I go to start up the machine and it was telling me that the BOOTMGR was missing. I was like what the... I have two HDD's in a dual boot setup how can something be missing? After much tinkering I was able to get the machine to boot but it was super super slow so I've decided to just reformat. I'm tired of trying to figure out how something can go wrong without making any major changes.
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When you said you "moved the HDDs around" do you mean that you changed the ports on the MB that they were plugged into?
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Ah, its good to format them and clean-em up at least once a year. My hard drives get so cluttered with programs, pictures and fragmented files after a year. Instead of doing all the Windows "cleanup" its easier to just format and reinstall. Then its just like a brand new computer...
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agreed....But I'm a little more anal... I remember a few years back I reformatted and reinstalled XP about 8 times. Some were due to corruption from overclocking or experimenting with different settings on the OS or just cause it felt slow. I no longer was able to just activate that particular key over the internet, I had to call the other side of the world to have it activated. lol As for my system now I have it back the way I like it...thank goodness.
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