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I'm posting this in the Hard Drive forum, although I am starting to have doubts about whether it is my hard drive(s).
Okay, so I finished my first build a while ago, and a couple months ago I was being stupid and messing around with VMWare, not knowing what I was doing and I fried my hard drive. I had a virtual machine with my own hard drive on it running when it froze and I had to shut down without stopping the machine, after I rebooted Windows XP started to boot normally but then came back saying it couldn't boot correctly, I tried all the settings, safe mode, and last working settings but it still wouldn't boot, I booted into Knoppix and my hard drive was still there, and I could even copy files to an external USB drive. So I pop in the Windows XP disc and try to repair the installation, no luck. So as a last restort I reformat my drive and try to do a clean install, for some reason it keeps saying that I already have an installation of Windows on the drive and so I try to install over it, but it never goes to the setup afterward, it just asks me to install it again. After formatting several times I boot into Knoppix again and now it doesn't see my hard drive, uh-oh. I go into the Windows restore console and do the CheckDisk command and it says "One or more unfixable problems on the disc." So I accept the fact that I killed it and move on.
Now, several months later I have gotten a new hard drive, both the old and the new are 160GB, old was an IDE Samsung drive, the new is a Serial ATA 150 Maxtor. I was worried about having to install some SATA drivers but to my delight the Windows install disc tells me the correct size drive and asks to format it meaning it detected correctly (right?) so it formats fine and reboots, I go to install Windows again (this is where it gets ugly) for some reason, on my freshly bought, freshly formatted drive, it says there's already a copy of Windows on the drive. So now i'm getting really worried but I go ahead with the install, over the original installation (that can't exist). It reboots, and just like the old drive it doesn't go into setting up Windows, it goes to installing again. So now I'm thinking maybe it's not a Hard drive issue (in which case I just bought a brand new 160GB hard drive for no reason).
Does anybody have any ideas as to what the problem is? Could I have screwed up something other than my hard drive? Because the computer works fine in Knoppix, it just doesn't like my hard drives. If anybody has any ideas please help, I'm getting really worried.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and if it matters, here are my parts:
GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 mobo
1 gb Corsair RAM
Samsung DVD
GIGABYTE Radeon X800
Okay, so I finished my first build a while ago, and a couple months ago I was being stupid and messing around with VMWare, not knowing what I was doing and I fried my hard drive. I had a virtual machine with my own hard drive on it running when it froze and I had to shut down without stopping the machine, after I rebooted Windows XP started to boot normally but then came back saying it couldn't boot correctly, I tried all the settings, safe mode, and last working settings but it still wouldn't boot, I booted into Knoppix and my hard drive was still there, and I could even copy files to an external USB drive. So I pop in the Windows XP disc and try to repair the installation, no luck. So as a last restort I reformat my drive and try to do a clean install, for some reason it keeps saying that I already have an installation of Windows on the drive and so I try to install over it, but it never goes to the setup afterward, it just asks me to install it again. After formatting several times I boot into Knoppix again and now it doesn't see my hard drive, uh-oh. I go into the Windows restore console and do the CheckDisk command and it says "One or more unfixable problems on the disc." So I accept the fact that I killed it and move on.
Now, several months later I have gotten a new hard drive, both the old and the new are 160GB, old was an IDE Samsung drive, the new is a Serial ATA 150 Maxtor. I was worried about having to install some SATA drivers but to my delight the Windows install disc tells me the correct size drive and asks to format it meaning it detected correctly (right?) so it formats fine and reboots, I go to install Windows again (this is where it gets ugly) for some reason, on my freshly bought, freshly formatted drive, it says there's already a copy of Windows on the drive. So now i'm getting really worried but I go ahead with the install, over the original installation (that can't exist). It reboots, and just like the old drive it doesn't go into setting up Windows, it goes to installing again. So now I'm thinking maybe it's not a Hard drive issue (in which case I just bought a brand new 160GB hard drive for no reason).
Does anybody have any ideas as to what the problem is? Could I have screwed up something other than my hard drive? Because the computer works fine in Knoppix, it just doesn't like my hard drives. If anybody has any ideas please help, I'm getting really worried.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and if it matters, here are my parts:
GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 mobo
1 gb Corsair RAM
Samsung DVD
GIGABYTE Radeon X800
