So I am upgrading my desktop’s mobo and processor to an Intel dual core 3.0 GHz processor and have everything all set up find…and when I went to boot, XP refused to get anywhere and left me at the recovery screen, asking me how I wish to boot up…as is, last known configuration, or in safe modes. No matter what I choose, it reboots. If I choose “as is”, I BRIEFLY get a blue screen of death for like a half a second…not long enough to read anything but something to do with the hard disk.

I was extra careful about the install and took all precautions, including wearing the anti-static thing to ground me. The hard drives never suffered any sort of dropping or anything. So I can’t imagine what changed.

So here I am with my XP installation disk, wading through the waters of chkdsk and trying to recover my installation of XP and everything on it. I do NOT want to lose anything. There’s just too much on this PC.

The Microsoft Support Site has been sorta helpful…but that will only be if chkdsk /r actually does the job and fixes the “one or more errors on the volume.”

Argh!!!! Sometimes computers can be so frustrating.

May 17, 2006, 9:59 pm

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