[Swiftblade]

Hello.

Ever since I restarted the other day my hard drive has been reseting at the startup screen. It goes to the Windows XP screen with the green loading bar, then the hard drive resets, and the same thing happens again, in a constant loop. I've tried restarting in safe mode, but it still happens. I even tried recovery, which formatted the hard drive and put a fresh XP install on there. One problem with that though, I can't get to the XP installation process because the hard drive resets.

What can I do?

 

[deleted122510]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

Hi & Welcome!

Do you have your original XP disc? If so, this is your answer.

If you don't however, define "resetting" when referring to your HDD.

 

[Swiftblade]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

I have a "Restore DVD" that does nothing. Tried booting from the cd drive but that fails.

By resetting I mean, it turns off and goes back on. I have it out and I can clearly see it turning off. Hard drive turning off, means restart. Thus, loop.

 

[Swiftblade]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

(Sorry for the double post. I can't edit.)

Does anyone have a clue what the problem could be? I'm thinking the hard drive may be shot. It's a WD2500BB Caviar.

It is absolutely essential that I get this figured out. I have no computer usage and I may be going through withdrawl....

 

[dai]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

with a restore dvd you usually put the dvd in and then press one of the F keys to set it in motion

 

[Swiftblade]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

with a restore dvd you usually put the dvd in and then press one of the F keys to set it in motion

Yeah, that didn't work.

 

[dai]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

run the wd diagnostic tool on the h/drive

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

 

[Swiftblade]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

I can't get into the computer at all.

Wait, can I run it on a cd without getting into Windows? That's what the DOS version looks like to me. I'm not sure though...

 

[deleted122510]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

Yes, you can.

As soon as you boot up press F12 (depending on your computer it could be DEL, F1, etc - just mess around with the keys, it can't hurt anything) and select "CD-ROM/DVD/ROM" or something implying that.

 

[dai]

Re: Hard drive resets on startup

you burn it to disk and then boot from the disk

it runs before anything else cuts in