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Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a
Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove invalid) |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Nick Le Lievre wrote... Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access. All F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters and size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will this "softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access. All F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters and size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will this "softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again. Is this what I need http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...nload/263.html Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics will this do it? Do I need floppies |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access. All F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters and size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will this "softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again. Is this what I need http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...nload/263.html Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics will this do it? Do I need floppies I need 3 floppies (damn I'm going to have to buy a box!) according to this post http://tinyurl.com/cd9vz a user was getting the same error trying to install a 20gb drive. He booted from setup floppy discs and was able to enter the hd parameters into the BIOS it then saw it as 8.4gb but the 1790 error was gone and it worked as 20gb. Question is will Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics allow me to enter hd parameters where F10 setup will not. Aha the clue is on the HP support page "* » perform regular maintenance » upgrade and migrate » recycle and dispose support resources » Purchase Support Software CDs » Subscribe: Driver/Software/Support Alerts & Notifications » Microsoft DirectX Information » View All Desktops Products * » contact support » discussion groups » frequently asked questions * » manuals » parts information * » subscribe to notifications » warranty information » IT professionals * » developers » help » site map Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics version 1.76 A * (27 Aug 98) »*revision history Aha the clue is on that HP support page "For all products except the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup and PC Diagnostics are both pre-installed on the Diagnostics Partition. Both utilities can be run by pressing F10 during power-up or reboot when prompted in the lower right corner of the screen on some models or when the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the screen on other models." It goes on... "For the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics must be run from diskette." Which would suggest for everything except Deskpro EP, SB & EN you can access the Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics via F10. Those utilities are probably the key to setting the HD parameters. How did it lose them in the first place BIOS battery is ok. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access. All F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters and size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will this "softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again. Is this what I need http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...nload/263.html Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics will this do it? Do I need floppies I need 3 floppies (damn I'm going to have to buy a box!) according to this post http://tinyurl.com/cd9vz a user was getting the same error trying to install a 20gb drive. He booted from setup floppy discs and was able to enter the hd parameters into the BIOS it then saw it as 8.4gb but the 1790 error was gone and it worked as 20gb. Question is will Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics allow me to enter hd parameters where F10 setup will not. Oh dear! Last post should read as below but I pasted the contents of my clipboard accidentally. Aha the clue is on that HP support page "For all products except the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup and PC Diagnostics are both pre-installed on the Diagnostics Partition. Both utilities can be run by pressing F10 during power-up or reboot when prompted in the lower right corner of the screen on some models or when the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the screen on other models." It goes on... "For the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics must be run from diskette." Which would suggest for everything except Deskpro EP, SB & EN you can access the Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics via F10. Those utilities are probably the key to setting the HD parameters. How did it lose them in the first place BIOS battery is ok. Thanks for all your help :) lol |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre ha usato la sua tastiera per scrivere :
Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive Hi, you have a DesktopPRO EN, with a PSU unit from compaq... Please, could you post the order of the wire into its 24 pins??? And/or a photo of the 24 pins molex in wich I see the color order of the wire? I did a post someday ago... If you could read it you'll understand my problem :) Thank you! P.S. Tomorrow I'll read your post... now I have to go to bed, sorry :( P.P.S. sorry for my bad english :( -- Le dimensioni forse non sono importanti per le donne, ma sono essenziali per le vagine! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
"Felix" wrote...
Nick Le Lievre ha usato la sua tastiera per scrivere : Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive Hi, you have a DesktopPRO EN, with a PSU unit from compaq... Please, could you post the order of the wire into its 24 pins??? And/or a photo of the 24 pins molex in wich I see the color order of the wire? I did a post someday ago... If you could read it you'll understand my problem :) Thank you! P.S. Tomorrow I'll read your post... now I have to go to bed, sorry :( P.P.S. sorry for my bad english :( I found the PC yesterday when I went to dump the trash. It had 128mb SDRAM 16x/40x DVD Rom USR V.92 56k PCI & 17" LG CRT. The PC itself must date back to 1998/99 and the memory, dvd & monitor were manufactured in 2001 the modem I think is circa 2004. Probably upgraded then handed down to use as an Internet PC. The DVD Rom and Monitor are going in my neices PC that's why I removed the DVD Rom - I never expected to lose the HD parameters when it updated configuration. The PSU is Compaq PS2013 series p/n 334112-001 200w. I am charging my digital camera's batteries and will upload some photos of the ATX connector to a webserver later. Its 00:50 here I should be in bed! Gotta get round my nieces tommorow. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
"Felix" wrote... Nick Le Lievre ha usato la sua tastiera per scrivere : Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive Hi, you have a DesktopPRO EN, with a PSU unit from compaq... Please, could you post the order of the wire into its 24 pins??? And/or a photo of the 24 pins molex in wich I see the color order of the wire? I did a post someday ago... If you could read it you'll understand my problem :) Thank you! P.S. Tomorrow I'll read your post... now I have to go to bed, sorry :( P.P.S. sorry for my bad english :( I found the PC yesterday when I went to dump the trash. It had 128mb SDRAM 16x/40x DVD Rom USR V.92 56k PCI & 17" LG CRT. The PC itself must date back to 1998/99 and the memory, dvd & monitor were manufactured in 2001 the modem I think is circa 2004. Probably upgraded then handed down to use as an Internet PC. The DVD Rom and Monitor are going in my neices PC that's why I removed the DVD Rom - I never expected to lose the HD parameters when it updated configuration. The PSU is Compaq PS2013 series p/n 334112-001 200w. I am charging my digital camera's batteries and will upload some photos of the ATX connector to a webserver later. Its 00:50 here I should be in bed! Gotta get round my nieces tommorow. Here are the photos; http://user.itl.net/~nlel/pic2.JPG http://user.itl.net/~nlel/pic3.JPG They are high res so you should be able to get a good closeup. If you need anymore just email me. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Nick Le Lievre wrote... Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove .invalid) I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the hard drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the primary controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help! Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access. All F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters and size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will this "softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again. Is this what I need http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...nload/263.html Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics will this do it? Do I need floppies I need 3 floppies (damn I'm going to have to buy a box!) according to this post http://tinyurl.com/cd9vz a user was getting the same error trying to install a 20gb drive. He booted from setup floppy discs and was able to enter the hd parameters into the BIOS it then saw it as 8.4gb but the 1790 error was gone and it worked as 20gb. Question is will Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics allow me to enter hd parameters where F10 setup will not. Oh dear! Last post should read as below but I pasted the contents of my clipboard accidentally. Aha the clue is on that HP support page "For all products except the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup and PC Diagnostics are both pre-installed on the Diagnostics Partition. Both utilities can be run by pressing F10 during power-up or reboot when prompted in the lower right corner of the screen on some models or when the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the screen on other models." It goes on... "For the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics must be run from diskette." Which would suggest for everything except Deskpro EP, SB & EN you can access the Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics via F10. Those utilities are probably the key to setting the HD parameters. How did it lose them in the first place BIOS battery is ok. Thanks for all your help :) lol I still hate Compaqs downloaded Computer Setup/VP & Personal Diagnostics and there is still no option to set HD parameters! My worst fears... so I've asked a friend to bring round a selection of old hard drives 2gb - 10gb to see if it will autodetect one of these correctly. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Scriveva Nick Le Lievre luned́, 09/01/2006:
Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove invalid) Try to enter into your bios and set disable for the secondary eide and disable for primary slave. Auto to master primary. Into eide HD set MASTER (no cable selector). Let me know ;) Thank you for your photos... but you have a desktopPRO with P2, not P3, so you have a standard 20pins ATX, not the Compaq 24pins ATX :( -- Le dimensioni forse non sono importanti per le donne, ma sono essenziali per le vagine! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
Nick Le Lievre wrote...
Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary and a Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then I've been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a 2110mb drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't talk to the fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup and I have no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the drive settings. Reply to group or email lid (remove invalid) Put my friends 10.2gb in the system and it detected the parameters correctly same with a 6.8gb drive. I'm installing operating system on the 10.2gb now. The original drive still gives 1790 with incorrect drive parameters. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... Put my friends 10.2gb in the system and it detected the parameters correctly same with a 6.8gb drive. I'm installing operating system on the 10.2gb now. The original drive still gives 1790 with incorrect drive parameters. I couldn't install my copy of Windows 2000 and when I booted from cd which has fdisk, format etc I ran format and it reported "Track 0 error disk is unusable". I put the 6.8gb in and tried formatting but it quickly reported "trying to recover lost allocations" I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to finish so I tried a 2.1gb and formatted it at about 97% it said "trying to recover lost allocations" so I left it 20mins and it completed format. I then installed Windows 2000 successfully however this 2.1gb hard drive only powers up 1/3 times (you can hear it) and the power on button on the case isn't making a consistent connection with the switch so its hard getting it on - that with the hard drive problem is bad. I think I`ll just leave it on lol that would be best I think :) |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... Put my friends 10.2gb in the system and it detected the parameters correctly same with a 6.8gb drive. I'm installing operating system on the 10.2gb now. The original drive still gives 1790 with incorrect drive parameters. I couldn't install my copy of Windows 2000 and when I booted from cd which has fdisk, format etc I ran format and it reported "Track 0 error disk is unusable". I put the 6.8gb in and tried formatting but it quickly reported "trying to recover lost allocations" I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to finish so I tried a 2.1gb and formatted it at about 97% it said "trying to recover lost allocations" so I left it 20mins and it completed format. I then installed Windows 2000 successfully however this 2.1gb hard drive only powers up 1/3 times (you can hear it) and the power on button on the case isn't making a consistent connection with the switch so its hard getting it on - that with the hard drive problem is bad. I think I`ll just leave it on lol that would be best I think :) Just to exhonerate my so called "friend" he has never tested the drives he wouldn't know how to - he just canabolised them from the odd system he's stumbled across in a skip/bin. If you think about the punishment they would've taken being thrown into a skip its no wonder they're either dead or have lost allocations. Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot after which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to verify free space which took more time. After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot after which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to verify free space which took more time. After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back. According to this snippet of info http://tinyurl.com/cl387 its a good idea to run a chkdsk before installing SP4 now I know this I`m not surprised it failed to install. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot after which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to verify free space which took more time. After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back. According to this snippet of info http://tinyurl.com/cl387 its a good idea to run a chkdsk before installing SP4 now I know this I`m not surprised it failed to install. Well a quite look at the system log in the event viewer confirms it: 11/01/2006 03:43:23 NtServicePack Error None 4373 PENTIUMII\Nick Le Lievre PENTIUMII Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 installation failed. The system cannot find the file specified. 11/01/2006 03:43:19 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:17 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:16 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:15 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:13 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:12 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:11 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:09 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
Nel suo scritto precedente, Nick Le Lievre ha sostenuto :
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot after which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to verify free space which took more time. After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back. According to this snippet of info http://tinyurl.com/cl387 its a good idea to run a chkdsk before installing SP4 now I know this I`m not surprised it failed to install. Well a quite look at the system log in the event viewer confirms it: 11/01/2006 03:43:23 NtServicePack Error None 4373 PENTIUMII\Nick Le Lievre PENTIUMII Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 installation failed. The system cannot find the file specified. 11/01/2006 03:43:19 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:17 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:16 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:15 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:13 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:12 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:11 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. 11/01/2006 03:43:09 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. WOW A new hard drive? :D For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4 in ;) -- Le dimensioni forse non sono importanti per le donne, ma sono essenziali per le vagine! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Felix" wrote in message
il.it... WOW A new hard drive? :D For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4 in ;) Its not worth a new hard drive for this PC - my friend may have another 2.1gb which *might* be clear of errors. I will probably run a thorough scandisk again to automatically fix errors and to scan for and try to recover bad sectors - even though Win98SE boot disk format did this before installation. Then I will attempt to install SP4 again. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
Nel suo scritto precedente, Nick Le Lievre ha sostenuto :
"Felix" wrote in message il.it... WOW A new hard drive? :D For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4 in ;) Its not worth a new hard drive for this PC - my friend may have another 2.1gb which *might* be clear of errors. I will probably run a thorough scandisk again to automatically fix errors and to scan for and try to recover bad sectors - even though Win98SE boot disk format did this before installation. Then I will attempt to install SP4 again. to do a low level format to (try to) fix errors, please use Active@KillDisk. It's free... ;) -- Le dimensioni forse non sono importanti per le donne, ma sono essenziali per le vagine! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Felix" wrote in message
il.it... Nel suo scritto precedente, Nick Le Lievre ha sostenuto : "Felix" wrote in message il.it... WOW A new hard drive? :D For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4 in ;) Its not worth a new hard drive for this PC - my friend may have another 2.1gb which *might* be clear of errors. I will probably run a thorough scandisk again to automatically fix errors and to scan for and try to recover bad sectors - even though Win98SE boot disk format did this before installation. Then I will attempt to install SP4 again. to do a low level format to (try to) fix errors, please use Active@KillDisk. It's free... ;) Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
Dopo dura riflessione, Nick Le Lievre ha scritto :
"Felix" wrote in message il.it... Nel suo scritto precedente, Nick Le Lievre ha sostenuto : "Felix" wrote in message il.it... WOW A new hard drive? :D For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4 in ;) Its not worth a new hard drive for this PC - my friend may have another 2.1gb which *might* be clear of errors. I will probably run a thorough scandisk again to automatically fix errors and to scan for and try to recover bad sectors - even though Win98SE boot disk format did this before installation. Then I will attempt to install SP4 again. to do a low level format to (try to) fix errors, please use Active@KillDisk. It's free... ;) Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it... -- Le dimensioni forse non sono importanti per le donne, ma sono essenziali per le vagine! |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Felix" wrote in message
Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it... I got sick of the 2.1gb which would spin up maybe 1 in 10 times (if lucky) so I low level formatted that 10.2gb with the track 0 error after I did a non destructive test and it stopped straight away with 20 errors. So its definetely cream crackered my friend also gave me a 1.2gb Western Digital so I booted to dos and formatted it no errors. I then ran Ghost and copied the Windows 2000 install from the 2.1gb to the 1.2gb and am using that now. 144mb free space lol with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and IE6sp1 + messenger 7.0. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Felix" wrote in message Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it... I got sick of the 2.1gb which would spin up maybe 1 in 10 times (if lucky) so I low level formatted that 10.2gb with the track 0 error after I did a non destructive test and it stopped straight away with 20 errors. So its definetely cream crackered my friend also gave me a 1.2gb Western Digital so I booted to dos and formatted it no errors. I then ran Ghost and copied the Windows 2000 install from the 2.1gb to the 1.2gb and am using that now. 144mb free space lol with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and IE6sp1 + messenger 7.0. Did I have some hassle trying to ghost it though. I had a boot cd with Ghost on it (but no copy command) and a boot floppy setup for networking support (ie no Ghost program or copy command etc). I had to disconnect the 2.1gb connect the 1.2gb to primary with the CD Rom on the secondary and boot from cd. The 1.2gb had a FAT32 partition already on it with Windows 98 installed. So I changed directory to c:\windows\system and used the move command to move r:\ghostpe.exe to c:\ Then I booted from floppy and used the move command to move c:\ghostpe.exe a:\ Then I connected both the 2.1gb & 1.2gb and during a power on where the 2.1gb actually spun up I booted from floppy and ran Ghostpe |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Felix" wrote in message Did I have some hassle trying to ghost it though. I had a boot cd with Ghost on it (but no copy command) and a boot floppy setup for networking support (ie no Ghost program or copy command etc). I had to disconnect the 2.1gb connect the 1.2gb to primary with the CD Rom on the secondary and boot from cd. The 1.2gb had a FAT32 partition already on it with Windows 98 installed. So I changed directory to c:\windows\system and used the move command to move r:\ghostpe.exe to c:\ Then I booted from floppy and used the move command to move c:\ghostpe.exe a:\ Then I connected both the 2.1gb & 1.2gb and during a power on where the 2.1gb actually spun up I booted from floppy and ran Ghostpe You say why not connect the 2 hard drives and the CD Rom at the same time then boot from CD and run Ghostpe off the CD - but I only have 2 IDE cables (with no extra IDE connections on them) so I couldn't connect all 3 simultaneously. I was lucky that the 1.2gb had a previous Windows98 installation. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Felix" wrote in message Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it... I got sick of the 2.1gb which would spin up maybe 1 in 10 times (if lucky) so I low level formatted that 10.2gb with the track 0 error after I did a non destructive test and it stopped straight away with 20 errors. So its definetely cream crackered my friend also gave me a 1.2gb Western Digital so I booted to dos and formatted it no errors. I then ran Ghost and copied the Windows 2000 install from the 2.1gb to the 1.2gb and am using that now. 144mb free space lol with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and IE6sp1 + messenger 7.0. Did I have some hassle trying to ghost it though. I had a boot cd with Ghost on it (but no copy command) and a boot floppy setup for networking support (ie no Ghost program or copy command etc). I had to disconnect the 2.1gb connect the 1.2gb to primary with the CD Rom on the secondary and boot from cd. The 1.2gb had a FAT32 partition already on it with Windows 98 installed. So I changed directory to c:\windows\system and used the move command to That's c:\windows\command of course not system |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Felix" wrote in message Did I have some hassle trying to ghost it though. I had a boot cd with Ghost on it (but no copy command) and a boot floppy setup for networking support (ie no Ghost program or copy command etc). I had to disconnect the 2.1gb connect the 1.2gb to primary with the CD Rom on the secondary and boot from cd. The 1.2gb had a FAT32 partition already on it with Windows 98 installed. So I changed directory to c:\windows\system and used the move command to move r:\ghostpe.exe to c:\ Then I booted from floppy and used the move command to move c:\ghostpe.exe a:\ Then I connected both the 2.1gb & 1.2gb and during a power on where the 2.1gb actually spun up I booted from floppy and ran Ghostpe You say why not connect the 2 hard drives and the CD Rom at the same time then boot from CD and run Ghostpe off the CD - but I only have 2 IDE cables (with no extra IDE connections on them) so I couldn't connect all 3 simultaneously. I was lucky that the 1.2gb had a previous Windows98 installation. and to make matters worse I haven't got any decent screws to screw the CD Rom in place so the one I used just about holds it in place as long as you don't apply too much pressure. I can usually get the system on with the power button but I have more difficulty getting it off. Its a peice of crap really I haven't got any case screws and the CD Rom isn't properly aligned to the front of the case. Plus the floppy has lost is eject button so there's just a hole there now lol. Oh well it'll do for my Internet purposes while my other PCs are unavailable. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... and to make matters worse I haven't got any decent screws to screw the CD Rom in place so the one I used just about holds it in place as long as you don't apply too much pressure. I can usually get the system on with the power button but I have more difficulty getting it off. Its a peice of crap really I haven't got any case screws and the CD Rom isn't properly aligned to the front of the case. Plus the floppy has lost is eject button so there's just a hole there now lol. Oh well it'll do for my Internet purposes while my other PCs are unavailable. Searched google found that by enabling APM mode the PC now shuts down instead of displaying the "Its now safe to turn off your computer" its installed as a standard PC all the other PCs I ever came across that shutdown automatically were installed as ACPI Pcs under Computer in device manager. I didn't know enabling APM would allow a standard PC to shutdown (I guess this motherboard has ACPI features but for some reason they weren't detected during installation) anyone know why ? |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
I only use Partition Magic
It is the best and the Industry standard If just 2.1 GIG A dos 6 #1 Disk is also good That is why they are 2.1 because of dos 6.22 "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Felix" wrote in message Seriously a good program to use is Bart's Disktool... I got it on a boot cd rom somewhere around here. ok... it's the same... a low level format with check after it... I got sick of the 2.1gb which would spin up maybe 1 in 10 times (if lucky) so I low level formatted that 10.2gb with the track 0 error after I did a non destructive test and it stopped straight away with 20 errors. So its definetely cream crackered my friend also gave me a 1.2gb Western Digital so I booted to dos and formatted it no errors. I then ran Ghost and copied the Windows 2000 install from the 2.1gb to the 1.2gb and am using that now. 144mb free space lol with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and IE6sp1 + messenger 7.0. Did I have some hassle trying to ghost it though. I had a boot cd with Ghost on it (but no copy command) and a boot floppy setup for networking support (ie no Ghost program or copy command etc). I had to disconnect the 2.1gb connect the 1.2gb to primary with the CD Rom on the secondary and boot from cd. The 1.2gb had a FAT32 partition already on it with Windows 98 installed. So I changed directory to c:\windows\system and used the move command to That's c:\windows\command of course not system |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
... Well as I suspected I now don't have enough space on the hard drive to install SP4 lol oh well I`m open to all sorts of nasty happenings now ain't I. |
Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790 *Update*
"metronid" wrote in message
... I only use Partition Magic It is the best and the Industry standard If just 2.1 GIG A dos 6 #1 Disk is also good fdisk is free and I downloaded Win98se bootdiscs from www.bootdisk.com ages ago which include CD support and fdisk/format etc but not copy! I then created a bootcd using this floppy as a template and added ghostpe to it (as you have at least 650mb on cd). The bootcd boots like a floppy and the basic system commands are available at a:\ the rest of the files added to the cd are available at r:\ (the assigned letter for the CD Rom). I prefer using a cd to boot as many of the systems I build I don't buy a floppy (which can be a pain sometimes). The network boot floppy I used was created through the Ghost program under windows. I deleted the networking files to free space and copied the ghostpe program to it. I used the tools a had to hand rather than go on the net to create the perfect boot disk. |
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