Seems I spend more time fixing my Wife's computer that anything else.
Her mother board went out and I bought a new mother board but Windows XP will
no longer boot. It comes up in the BIOS and setup fine. Naturally she did
back up here data and I would like to get that drive to boot.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Sounds like it might be a bad disk. I thought I had a bad MB, but it turned
out to be a bad disk. The symptoms fooled me. It got slower and slower and
strange things were happening. I got a totally new computer and a case to
convert the old internal disk(s) to external. One of the disks failed
completely and the other was flaky. Seems that the slowness was due to the
OS re-trying the disk operations repeatedly. Apparently the OS doesn't
re-try a disk error if it is an external.

What symptoms did it had with the old MB?

Doc Custer
Retired Software Engineer and sometime Audiologist

Won't even come up in the BIOS. The new mother board read the old disk fine.
It just did not like the fact I put a new mother board in there.
You got to pay Bill a $200 tax every time your computer crashes.
I told my wife she is on her own. Don't ever call me again :)


Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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