Trouble with HDs

blancomeow · 01-16-2006, 05:10 PM

I am having trouble installing programs. It all started when i was going to patch World of Warcraft one day. It said i needed to reinstall because some files were damage i said okay sure. So i removed WoW and tried to reinstall. I tried 2 times and both times I got an error that said it could not open a file from the CD rom. I know its not the CDs because i installed wow to my laptop not very long before i tried to reinstall (2 days). Now my PC is acting crazy random reboots, Lock Ups, Lock ups on Installations of software.

I have ran chkdisk or whatever 2 or 3 times checking both the boxes each time to do all 5 steps. I have tried using a different CD rom drive. Nothing works. I find it very strange that 2 hard drives would go bad at the exact same time. so I am out of ideas and looking for help anywhere i can get it.

Comp Specs are:
P4 530 3.0 1MB Cache 800 fsb
Chaintech V915P socket 775 MOBO
Ultra 1024x1 PC3200 DDR 400MHz
Radeon X600 Pro 256DDR vid card
425 Watt PS
2 120Gig Maxtor sata HD

**linderman** · 01-16-2006, 06:14 PM

I have encountered you problem MANY times >>>> the only way out that I found that makes everything work well all the time was a CLEAN install of the OS

I know that's not what you wanted to hear but that the perscription >>>> unless you want to call WOW tech support and hope you can get someone to walk you thru the registry entries that need to be deleted that are causing your problems >>>> and even then >> who knows if they have negatively impacted other programs by now ?????

bitter pill >>>> the blue pill or the red pill = (movie Matrix)

cheers

joe

blancomeow · 01-16-2006, 08:48 PM

actually that was the 2nd thing i tried but maybe i got a bad install of xp who knows but im pretty depressed lol i went to best buy and bought a 3.5 floppy to run a program a freind gave me called tuff test (it wouldn't get by the 3.5 test without one) and now i can't get the 3.5 to detect.

01-16-2006, 05:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
blancomeow Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Trouble with HDs I am having trouble installing programs. It all started when i was going to patch World of Warcraft one day. It said i needed to reinstall because some files were damage i said okay sure. So i removed WoW and tried to reinstall. I tried 2 times and both times I got an error that said it could not open a file from the CD rom. I know its not the CDs because i installed wow to my laptop not very long before i tried to reinstall (2 days). Now my PC is acting crazy random reboots, Lock Ups, Lock ups on Installations of software. I have ran chkdisk or whatever 2 or 3 times checking both the boxes each time to do all 5 steps. I have tried using a different CD rom drive. Nothing works. I find it very strange that 2 hard drives would go bad at the exact same time. so I am out of ideas and looking for help anywhere i can get it. Comp Specs are: P4 530 3.0 1MB Cache 800 fsb Chaintech V915P socket 775 MOBO Ultra 1024x1 PC3200 DDR 400MHz Radeon X600 Pro 256DDR vid card 425 Watt PS 2 120Gig Maxtor sata HD

01-16-2006, 06:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,441 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	I have encountered you problem MANY times >>>> the only way out that I found that makes everything work well all the time was a CLEAN install of the OS I know that's not what you wanted to hear but that the perscription >>>> unless you want to call WOW tech support and hope you can get someone to walk you thru the registry entries that need to be deleted that are causing your problems >>>> and even then >> who knows if they have negatively impacted other programs by now ????? bitter pill >>>> the blue pill or the red pill = (movie Matrix) cheers joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

01-16-2006, 08:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
blancomeow Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3 OS: XP	actually that was the 2nd thing i tried but maybe i got a bad install of xp who knows but im pretty depressed lol i went to best buy and bought a 3.5 floppy to run a program a freind gave me called tuff test (it wouldn't get by the 3.5 test without one) and now i can't get the 3.5 to detect.