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March 19th, 2009 19:00

Inspiron E1505 Unable to Load Windoze XP

Just discovered another problem with this machine, Used Recovery Console to repair Windows XP Media Center.  Ran CheckDisk, reported one or more errors,

Ran FixBoot,  again Ran Chkdsk, reported clean, no errors,  To be safe, Ran FixMbr, completed.  Ran chkdsk one more time,  reported clean no errors,  Rebooted, Windoze would not get past the Welcome Screen.  Just sat there, like a kid waiting to be told to get a bath.

Used Recpvery Console again and lo and behold, chkdsk shows one or more errors again.  I went through this process several times in addition to running Dell Diagnostics.  Still unable to boot to Windoze.

 Any suggestions as to why The MBR or boot is changing? 

I tried a clean install of Windoze, partitioning the dish 60/40 and doing a complete Format of both Partitions.  Windoze installed without a problem but on reboot, froze at the Welcome screen. I did install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and it is running nicely.

Other than that, its been a nice day

  • husky0894

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    Posted March 19th, 2009 19:00

    Have you run the extended hard drive diagnostics (F12 at powerup)?  One strong possibility is a drive that is failing.

     

  • Philip_Yip

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    Posted March 20th, 2009 05:00

    Could be a dell media direct problem if your dual booting?

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    Posted March 25th, 2009 08:00

    Thanks for the responses, this and other problems with this machine were fixed by replacing the HD.