KuriousJorj
December 31st, 2005, 06:06 PM
Hello!
I have a dual-boot system, "Win 2K Gaming," (for games) and "Win 2K Video," (for video editing). The computer is NOT hooked up to the internet, though I occasionally do hook it up... always using the "Win 2K Gaming" partition, which thus has alot of free anti-virus, anti-spamware installed that slows startup.
Anyhow, I also have an old, unstable IBM harddrive that had a few files I wanted to pull off, so I hooked it up to my system, booted into the "win 2K Gaming" partition, and copied off the files. When I did bootup, several windows from the harddrive opened, and I got a message that my system 'detected a new device, restart for changes to take effect.' Since the old, hooked-up harddrive is not stable, I just quickly copied the files I needed right then and there, shut down the system, then unhooked the old harddrive (ie, I didn't "restart to allow changes to take effect").
When I tried to restart/reboot into the "Gaming" system, it booted into desktop to the point where it starts to load all that free anti-spyware, then locked up.
I tried several more times, and it wouldn't even load to desktop, stopping at the Win2K "splash screen." I tried RE-intalling the old harddrive, thinking it needed to "RE-detect" the 'new device,' but no change. I tried SafeMode, but it also wouldn't load to the desktop.
I tried the Win2K install disk, to make repairs, but it wouldn't 'detect previous installations.' I tried using the RecoveryConsole, and while it shows both installations, when I click on "c://Gaming" it again just hangs, refusing to load into that partition so I can repair it.
So... How do I boot, how do I repair this situation?
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!!!
I have a dual-boot system, "Win 2K Gaming," (for games) and "Win 2K Video," (for video editing). The computer is NOT hooked up to the internet, though I occasionally do hook it up... always using the "Win 2K Gaming" partition, which thus has alot of free anti-virus, anti-spamware installed that slows startup.
Anyhow, I also have an old, unstable IBM harddrive that had a few files I wanted to pull off, so I hooked it up to my system, booted into the "win 2K Gaming" partition, and copied off the files. When I did bootup, several windows from the harddrive opened, and I got a message that my system 'detected a new device, restart for changes to take effect.' Since the old, hooked-up harddrive is not stable, I just quickly copied the files I needed right then and there, shut down the system, then unhooked the old harddrive (ie, I didn't "restart to allow changes to take effect").
When I tried to restart/reboot into the "Gaming" system, it booted into desktop to the point where it starts to load all that free anti-spyware, then locked up.
I tried several more times, and it wouldn't even load to desktop, stopping at the Win2K "splash screen." I tried RE-intalling the old harddrive, thinking it needed to "RE-detect" the 'new device,' but no change. I tried SafeMode, but it also wouldn't load to the desktop.
I tried the Win2K install disk, to make repairs, but it wouldn't 'detect previous installations.' I tried using the RecoveryConsole, and while it shows both installations, when I click on "c://Gaming" it again just hangs, refusing to load into that partition so I can repair it.
So... How do I boot, how do I repair this situation?
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!!!