Dear Sirs: I am running a dual boot Windows XP Pro/Windows 2000 on a P4 1.5 machine w/ 760 MBs Rambus RAM and two HDs, one 40 Gig with w/ two active partitions containing the two operating systems, and the other a 120 Gig Western Digital used for storage only.
I have an error on boot that happens about one out of every 10 startups, usually always from a cold boot. The PC will not boot and instead displays the message "Drive Not Ready-System Halted". I then reboot the machine and it boots normally, defaulting to Windows XP unless I choose differently.
I have done scan disk on all of the partitions, with no problems found. I have run up-to-date Norton AV 2003 scan on all partitions. I have defragged all. I am unable to find the cause for this problem in all of my troubleshooting and Google searches for that error message.
Actually, having the boot up fail and having to start it over again to then successfully boot occasionally is more of a slight inconvenience than a "problem", but I am very worried that this occurence is an indication that a drive may be failing.
Thank you, in advance, for any help you may provide! Regards, Babe
> Dear Sirs: > I am running a dual boot Windows XP Pro/Windows 2000 on a > P4 1.5 machine w/ 760 MBs Rambus RAM and two HDs, one 40 > Gig with w/ two active partitions containing the two > operating systems, and the other a 120 Gig Western > Digital used for storage only.
> I have an error on boot that happens about one out of > every 10 startups, usually always from a cold boot. The > PC will not boot and instead displays the message "Drive > Not Ready-System Halted". I then reboot the machine and > it boots normally, defaulting to Windows XP unless I > choose differently.
> I have done scan disk on all of the partitions, with no > problems found. I have run up-to-date Norton AV 2003 scan > on all partitions. I have defragged all. I am unable to > find the cause for this problem in all of my > troubleshooting and Google searches for that error > message.
> Actually, having the boot up fail and having to start it > over again to then successfully boot occasionally is more > of a slight inconvenience than a "problem", but I am very > worried that this occurence is an indication that a drive > may be failing.
> Thank you, in advance, for any help you may provide! > Regards, Babe
On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:50:45 -0700, Babe Brown <Babe_Br...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Actually, having the boot up fail and having to start it over again to > then successfully boot occasionally is more of a slight inconvenience than > a "problem", but I am very worried that this occurence is an indication > that a drive may be failing.
If your drive is SMART compatible (and judging from their hugenesses, they probably will be), then you could try running SMART diagnostics (say, from http://www.kmint21.com/smart/ ). Of course, SMART only detects a proportion of hard drive problems (albeit quite a high proportion - about 70% I think) so if you're really worried, then you could always buy new hard drives and give your old ones to me ;)
Hi NoSpam! No record of the error is reported in the Event Viewer. Event Viewer shows no entries for today at all until after I successfully booted into Windows XP, and then all is reported as functioning as it should. Thanks for your response! Regards, Babe
>-----Original Message----- >Babe,
>Look in the Event Viewer under administrative tools and
Hi Ant! Thanks for your kind offer to unburden me with my HDs, but they are both covered by warrantees. <<grin>>
Thanks also for your suggestion about the SMART diag software. I have downloaded and after reading a bit about it, I will probably give it a try. Regards, Babe
Ant wrote:
>If your drive is SMART compatible (and judging from
their hugenesses, they
>probably will be), then you could try running SMART
>of hard drive problems (albeit quite a high proportion - about 70% I think) >so if you're really worried, then you could always buy new hard drives and >give your old ones to me ;)
A hard drive problem may take time to exhibit itself in the event viewer; it can take hours or a few days. I've had 3 Western Digital Hard Drives go bad in one year and I've identified it each time in the event viwer. A different problem each time too.
No more Western Digitals for me, btw.
Nospam
"Babe Brown" <Babe_Br...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> Hi NoSpam! > No record of the error is reported in the Event Viewer. > Event Viewer shows no entries for today at all until > after I successfully booted into Windows XP, and then all > is reported as functioning as it should. > Thanks for your response! > Regards, Babe
> >-----Original Message----- > >Babe,
> >Look in the Event Viewer under administrative tools and > see if that provides > >any clues.
Hi again! Well, this problem has been happening randomly for 2 or 3 months now. I use this system every day, from morning to evening. Other than this random boot malfunction, nothing seems amiss. Hmmmmmmmm! I am going to contact Western Digital. Thanks and Regards, Babe
>-----Original Message----- >Babe,
>A hard drive problem may take time to exhibit itself in
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