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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Boggin:
What happened to the old HDD and why did you have the computer ?
backtolife:
Long story. A friend of mine died. His wife wanted family pictures from the computer and a variety of other hard drives associated with the computer. I pulled the pictures off the hard drive in the computer and the other hard drives. It appeared that some of the hard drives had complete backups of the entire system. I decided to copy the contents of the other hard drives to the hard drive in the computer. During one of those operations something happened to Windows. I started out with a HAL file error, tried to fix it, and ended up with a partition problem. It appears that all files remain intact on the original hard drive, it just doesn't boot to Windows XP anymore.
On an entirely different note, I discovered the following discussion last night and I think it may contain the solution to the problem. The HP a1000 series computers came with both Intel and AMD processors. All the restore disk outlets sell the same recovery disk set for the entire a1000 family of computers. The problem involves a registry value called Intelppm. It may be that the restore disks I am using are set for using an Intel processor, my a1012x uses a AMD processor.
Here's the link: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/36cbcda3-0bba-47d1-a630-0b22336dedbd/winxp-sp3-bsod-0x0000007e-0xc0000005-0xbaa58756-0xbacc342c-0xbacc3128?forum=itproxpsp
I tried using the procedure found in this link below to change the value of Intelppm/start (instead of SystemSetupInProgress) but it didn't change the computer's behavior. I believe this was because I didn't have a clue what I was doing...
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00024476&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=&product=71747&rule=915
I believe I need some way of changing the value of Intelppm that will remain after I exit and reboot.
Then again, I could be entirely wrong...
Boggin:
Shane may have a fix for that but if you can boot up into Recovery on the original HDD, then perhaps a repair install may be an easier option given that you have a XP CD ? http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxprepair1.htm
You could also see if a Kaspersky Rescue disk would repair things for you on that HDD http://support.kaspersky.co.uk/4162
There's also Hiren's Boot CD which has a Mini Windows XP to repair/recover a dead OS (so it says) http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
I fumbled my way through a Kaspersky disk recently but have never used Hiren's but with your current problems, it's probably time to look for another solution to using the OEM disks on the new HDD.
Shane may be able to give you some advice on using those disks.
Shane:
Did you do a bad sector check on the original drive yet? Reason I ask is it is odd that it would just have those partition problems out of no where.
And if you can, clone the original drive to the new drive and then we can use the new drive to try and fix xp and get it backup and running without messing with the old drive :wink:
Shane
backtolife:
OK, I'm game for that as long as it isn't a destructive process. I'd like to retain the stuff on the drive.
I have checked the original hard drive and running the extended check in DLGDIAG (Western Digital) reports that all is good. I'm thinking that negates the need clone the drive. I can still clone it if you can tell me how to do it.
I have the original machine (HP a1012x) which has no OS at the moment and a Windows 7 based machine with a IDE/USB capability.
I installed the original drive back into the HP this morning. The result was:
On black screen, at the very top, left hand side of the screen, is the word Error!
I await your direction. Thanks.
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