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Slacker that I am, I finally got around to replacing my 40g. I found an identical 40g Western Digital, I acquired a copy of Norton Ghost (an entire copy of System Works, actually, but I ain't putting all of that crap on my system... don't trust Norton!).
I unplugged my CD-RW and plugged the new drive in, set the partition and formatted it. I found a floppy and made a boot disc with Ghost and started the system with the bootable Ghost. Got reports of "inconsistencies" and "processor errors" and nothing much else.
I did a scan disc and a defrag of my old drive and tried again... just in case that was causing the problem... no luck. Screw it.
I went to Western Digital's web site and downloaded "Data Lifeguard" and used it to copy the drive. The final count claimed to have copied @9,000 more files than were available on the disk (!).
I swapped the drives cables and booted up using the new drive. Everything went fine right up to the point where I should get the Welcome screen. Instead, I get a WinXP slash screen and the system stops right there. The mouse cursor will move, but the system is dead, otherwise. Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing. I must hit the reset.
Right now, I'm tired, as well as grumpy... confused and pissed off a bit, too! I hate begging, if there isn't a pretty female involved, but this is me begging.
HELP ME!!! PLEASE?!?!?!?
Thanks!
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"Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard
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