Hard drive won't boot, but still works Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 5:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Will Q. (116 messages posted) A friend of mine somehow acquired 3 old PC's that don't work for various reasons. He gave them to me to see if I could get one working PC out of it and all I need now is for a hard drive to work. The 30 GB western digital one I'm working with now works fine when used as a storage device (not the drive being booted from) but no matter how many times I reformat and try to install XP it just won't boot. CHKDSK says nothing is wrong with it. I was thinking maybe it's the master boot record but that gets re-written with each format, doesn't it? I would use the recovery console and try FIXMBR but the XP setup disk i'm using doesn't have the recovery console. Responses to this message: re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (jaf: Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 7:58 pm) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Larry: Monday, June 5, 2006 at 9:07 am) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Randolf Smallwood: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 10:00 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Will Q.: Sun, Jun 4, 2006, 5:24 pm) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (jaf: Sun, Jun 4, 2006, 7:58 pm) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Aun: Mon, Jun 5, 2006, 5:36 am) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Will Q.: Mon, Jun 5, 2006, 6:28 am) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Larry: Mon, Jun 5, 2006, 9:07 am) re: Hard drive won't boot, but still works (Randolf Smallwood: Tue, Jun 6, 2006, 10:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum