Dear spunk.funk,
I checked but there was no problem with hardware. I remember now that one year ago I reinstalled xp but something went wrong and I reinstalled the xp again. this time it was working properly but before booting, it gave me always two option for xp. both were the same xp but one of them did not work because this was not installed properly. If I did not choose after 20 seconds the first option was booting which was working. If I choose the second option, I got a black screen with a massage that xp misses a file and can not load. Now I do not get the massage but just the black screen. How can I boot from the same partition with two xp installed with the option to choose the good one.
Tim
Hi, and I hope you had a good day. Let met tell you what I did to find my pc problem. I branded a Linux cd using my laptop with the option to run OS Ubuntu 11.10, 32-bit. As I said before, I had two hd's: 200 gb which was primary master and 80 gb primary slave. In the bios, I see both of them with the information about them such as the capacities. When I run linux Ubuntu from the cd (without installation) I see the primary slave drive of 80 gb and I can open all files in it but I Ubunto can not show the primary master 200 gb. What do you think about this? I am going to post this to everybody in order to get others opinions too and I hope to hear from you as well.
Tim
Hallo everybody, My pc bios detects the primary master and primary slave hard disks but xp does not loads. After Intel logo I see the massage "updating ESCD ... success" but forther it does noting except flashing the cursor. Using my laptop, I branded a Linux cd with the option to run OS Ubuntu 11.10, 32-bit. I have two hd's: 200 gb which is primary master and 80 gb primary slave. In the bios, I see both of them with the correct information about them such as the capacities. When I run linux Ubuntu from the cd (without installation) I see the primary slave drive of 80 gb and I can open all files in it but the Ubunto can not show the primary master 200 gb. What do you think about this when bios shows the 200 gb drive but Linux Ubentu does not? Any comment is welcome and I hope you share anything you know about this issue. I thank you all in advance.
Tim