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tatsukaze00
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I used to have:
Epox EP-8RDA+
Athlon XP 1700+
768 MB PC2700
80 GB Western Digital SE (Primary Master, Boot)
20 GB IBM (Primary Slave, Backup, formatted w/ FAT32)
16x DVD
Lite-On 52x24x52x CD-RW
Then the motherboard got half-fried by a power surge, so I am trying to replace the Epox with an Albatron KX18D Pro II. I put everything in and tried to boot up and load the WD drive's original XP install, but no matter what the boot order was, it wouldn't boot from the hard drive. Even if I had it set to (HDD-0, Disabled, Disabled), it would always tried to boot from CD if I had boot other device enabled. So I decided to reformat the WD drive and recover from the IBM's backup.
I formatted, reinstalled, and when it booted, it wouldn't boot. Again. Did exactly the same thing. When I had the XP CD in the drive with only the WD connected to the primary master w/ jumpers on cable select, it would boot form CD then go into Windows. But if I had both drives connected, it would do something like this:
BOOT FROM CD:
BOOT FROM CD:
Press any key to boot from CD.........Error loading operating system
So I tried another alternative: Knoppix. For those of you who don't know, Knoppix is an entire Linux distro that's bootable and usable from the CD. I booted using that, and it booted just fine with both drives connected. I went into Konqueror (KDE's file navigation program) and tried to access the IBM drive to recover the data. I could see the entire directory structure in the root of the drive, and I could navigate into a single directory. But whenever I tried to access the rest of the drive, the folders would show up all empty.
So, I'm basically now stuck at this point. My only other method that I can think of is to plug the IBM drive into my other computer, which runs an P4 2.6 on a Canterwood board. But I'd like to be able to boot into XP on the AMD computer. Any help, suggestions, anything is greatly appreciated.
Epox EP-8RDA+
Athlon XP 1700+
768 MB PC2700
80 GB Western Digital SE (Primary Master, Boot)
20 GB IBM (Primary Slave, Backup, formatted w/ FAT32)
16x DVD
Lite-On 52x24x52x CD-RW
Then the motherboard got half-fried by a power surge, so I am trying to replace the Epox with an Albatron KX18D Pro II. I put everything in and tried to boot up and load the WD drive's original XP install, but no matter what the boot order was, it wouldn't boot from the hard drive. Even if I had it set to (HDD-0, Disabled, Disabled), it would always tried to boot from CD if I had boot other device enabled. So I decided to reformat the WD drive and recover from the IBM's backup.
I formatted, reinstalled, and when it booted, it wouldn't boot. Again. Did exactly the same thing. When I had the XP CD in the drive with only the WD connected to the primary master w/ jumpers on cable select, it would boot form CD then go into Windows. But if I had both drives connected, it would do something like this:
BOOT FROM CD:
BOOT FROM CD:
Press any key to boot from CD.........Error loading operating system
So I tried another alternative: Knoppix. For those of you who don't know, Knoppix is an entire Linux distro that's bootable and usable from the CD. I booted using that, and it booted just fine with both drives connected. I went into Konqueror (KDE's file navigation program) and tried to access the IBM drive to recover the data. I could see the entire directory structure in the root of the drive, and I could navigate into a single directory. But whenever I tried to access the rest of the drive, the folders would show up all empty.
So, I'm basically now stuck at this point. My only other method that I can think of is to plug the IBM drive into my other computer, which runs an P4 2.6 on a Canterwood board. But I'd like to be able to boot into XP on the AMD computer. Any help, suggestions, anything is greatly appreciated.