XP Pro SP3
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
1GB DDR (2x512)
Built by "ProNet Systems"
Customer brought in PC, claiming it had a virus (customer is always wrong). Long story short, PSU was bad causing a boot loop. With new PSU I was able to boot into Windows a few times, but then I was getting a Disk Boot Failure error.
I pulled the drive and was going to restore the image I had taken earlier, except now the drive was telling me to format it. I had an image that I could restore to another drive if this one was bad, so I formatted it.
Now the hard drive (3.5" WD 80GB, IDE) is showing up as a 30.5GB hard drive. Disk Management showed only one partition, and no unallocated space. Hiren's WD HDD quick and full tests came back with no errors. I can't even restore the image to this anymore because the image is larger than 30GB, so I'm using a spare drive in the meantime that is working perfectly and booting to Windows.
I'm stumped. In addition to all this, when I first opened the PC up the floppy power cable was connected to the jumper pins on the hard drive. Any help at all will do.
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
1GB DDR (2x512)
Built by "ProNet Systems"
Customer brought in PC, claiming it had a virus (customer is always wrong). Long story short, PSU was bad causing a boot loop. With new PSU I was able to boot into Windows a few times, but then I was getting a Disk Boot Failure error.
I pulled the drive and was going to restore the image I had taken earlier, except now the drive was telling me to format it. I had an image that I could restore to another drive if this one was bad, so I formatted it.
Now the hard drive (3.5" WD 80GB, IDE) is showing up as a 30.5GB hard drive. Disk Management showed only one partition, and no unallocated space. Hiren's WD HDD quick and full tests came back with no errors. I can't even restore the image to this anymore because the image is larger than 30GB, so I'm using a spare drive in the meantime that is working perfectly and booting to Windows.
I'm stumped. In addition to all this, when I first opened the PC up the floppy power cable was connected to the jumper pins on the hard drive. Any help at all will do.