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  1. kewldood

    Help Computer won't start up all of a sudden was ok?

    One more thing, connect your cdrom to the secondary ide port on your motherboard via its own ribbon cable. This is good practice, & it just may fix your issue.
  2. kewldood

    Help Computer won't start up all of a sudden was ok?

    Another thing to try is change your hard drive jumper to either master or cable select (whichever one of these 2 it is currently not set to). I have encountered picky (junk) motherboards that won't boot a hard drive if it doesn't "like" the jumper settings of the hard drive. This is probably...
  3. kewldood

    XP Home Fixed IP won't take

    What router do you have? I have a linksys router with an ip of 192.168.1.1. I made my "fixed" ip 192.168.1.2, subnet mask should pop in after you enter your "fixed" ip, my Default Gateway & my Preferred DNS Server is my router's ip (192.168.1.1). After I hit "OK", it takes a minute for your new...
  4. kewldood

    Hard drive won't boot

    Linney, you're a life saver!!! I downloaded MBRWORK & followed your instructions & voila! windows booted!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! After a bit more investigation, I realized that my hard drive jumper was set to cable select, not master. My drive is a Western Digital & my friend's...
  5. kewldood

    Hard drive won't boot

    Thx for your help guys, but I cannot run any command for the Recovery Console because no matter what I type, it says the drive is not valid. I cannot even access it when I install it as a second drive in ANY computer I put it in. It just shows up as "Unallocated" meaning it needs to be...
  6. kewldood

    Hard drive won't boot

    I have windows XP. I booted to XP's recovery console via the XP cd, but when I got to the command prompt, I typed "chkdsk" at the C: prompt and it said "the specified drive is invalid." What else can I try? Also, when I ran Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on this drive, it had no errors.
  7. kewldood

    Hard drive won't boot

    I made sure it is on master, but how do I go about booting to a command prompt where I can run chkdsk?
  8. kewldood

    Hard drive won't boot

    I pulled my hard drive out of my computer & put it into a friend's computer to copy some files from mine to his. When I booted his computer, my hard drive did not show up as drive "D" like usual, so I right-clicked on "My Computer" & selected "Manage." When I clicked on "Disk Management" an...

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