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hyiu:
Have you checked the RAM ??  I had bad rams a couple of times...

it would act fine for a while, but reboot randomly... or hang the machine...
and the memory check program did NOT show problem....
(and I downloaded some freebie memory check pgrm... not just the boot memory check..)

as windows exits... it updates something... so when you put in your good HD..
there is a chance some setting is overwritten when it reboots...

shardian:
Well, I found my xp disc. Running chkdsk shows that the home PC HD has 2 or more unrecoverable defects. I can't repair windows or anything. The HD is definitely toast. Hopefully I can at least recover some data from the pc, as it did have more than a few files on it that are important. I think I will just take it to a PC shop and see if they can rip the data from it.

shardian:
The only thing I can think is that I just had really really bad luck and by coincidence the home HD failed too.

D-Lew:
I'm hesitant to say try to run that hard drive as a slave or secondary on another system to see if you can recover the files...

You can take that with a grain of salt though.  If you think there are more serious problems with it, or you can move on with life without getting stuff off of there, I would just let it go.

shardian:
well...I am prepping an old IBM 400mhz right now with TinyXP as a last ditch recovery run. ;D

I figure if I can get a crappy old dvd burner installed and burning at SLOW speeds, and can get the pc to boot once like the home one did, I can offload the HD in one swoop. I won't miss the IBM if it gets screwed. I am kinda pissed though that I have went from having enough pc's for all my projects (several MAME, and a jukebox) to having almost no extra pc's. :angry:

I'll pick up a few small HD's this weekend and see if I can at least salvage the systems. Anyone care to donate some hard drives to my cause? ;D

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