While this is not exactly a Windows XP related thread, I sure would appreciate if someone out there in Windows Technical Land could help me with this issue.
Back in September 2013 I installed a new WD Caviar SE 250HDD. About two weeks ago I happen to notice that the HDD was making a scrubbing noise. I also noted that the boot process was repeating itself over and over. The re-boot process was moving so fast that I wasn't able to see what the error message on the BSOD was. Thus, I pulled the HDD out and connected it via an external USB connector and ran a CHKDSK /r scan, the log said that multiple bytes sectors could not be read.
This disk contains multiple Word Document files along with many CAD drawings, plus several software programs I would like to transfer to another HDD.
I have two 500G SATA drives and wanted to connect one to my system via a RAID Controller card but this Controller card only has two SATA ports.
My system reads the SATA ASUS DVD-ROM drive and the 500G SATA HDD but I am not able to boot the system from the 250G WinXP partition I set up. And from what I can tell, the drive is labelled as "Active." I also set up a 250G partition for Windows 7. Yet when I attempted to install Windows 7 Pro on this partition nothing happened.
I inserted the Windows 7 disk in the CD drive and booted my machine. Moments later the Windows 7 logo screen appeared; yet the Windows 7 installation process did not start as it did when I installed Windows 7 on a newer maching which had Windows Vista. All I got was something like the Windows 7 desktop page.
Surely this system-- according to the system requirements provided by Microsoft -- can run Windows 7 even if the CPU is only 1.2GHz. Or can it?
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back in September 2013 I installed a new WD Caviar SE 250HDD. About two weeks ago I happen to notice that the HDD was making a scrubbing noise. I also noted that the boot process was repeating itself over and over. The re-boot process was moving so fast that I wasn't able to see what the error message on the BSOD was. Thus, I pulled the HDD out and connected it via an external USB connector and ran a CHKDSK /r scan, the log said that multiple bytes sectors could not be read.
This disk contains multiple Word Document files along with many CAD drawings, plus several software programs I would like to transfer to another HDD.
I have two 500G SATA drives and wanted to connect one to my system via a RAID Controller card but this Controller card only has two SATA ports.
My system reads the SATA ASUS DVD-ROM drive and the 500G SATA HDD but I am not able to boot the system from the 250G WinXP partition I set up. And from what I can tell, the drive is labelled as "Active." I also set up a 250G partition for Windows 7. Yet when I attempted to install Windows 7 Pro on this partition nothing happened.
I inserted the Windows 7 disk in the CD drive and booted my machine. Moments later the Windows 7 logo screen appeared; yet the Windows 7 installation process did not start as it did when I installed Windows 7 on a newer maching which had Windows Vista. All I got was something like the Windows 7 desktop page.
Surely this system-- according to the system requirements provided by Microsoft -- can run Windows 7 even if the CPU is only 1.2GHz. Or can it?
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
