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My computer restarts when i turn it on as soon as the windows XP logo and loading bar should appear, it keeps restarting and repeating this process forever. So i put the hard drive on another computer as a secondry drive as it meant windows was running of the working computer - i was able to access my files which was good.

What i want to know is if i keep the hardrive from the computer that isnt working on the good computer as a secondry drive, could i perform a windows repair on the secondry drive?

David

hey dayrowntree did u try to boot from winxp cd and try to repair windows on the pc that's not working or does it restart anyway

yeh i did, u can get into the bios but it varys on the amount of time before the computer restarts, usually after being in the bios for 5 seconds it restarts - so there isn't enough time to change anything. an i need to get into the bios to change to boot order to cdrom first

David

do u still have it as a slave on your other pc if so did u scan it for spyware and viruses?

looking forward to your reply
genie3251

no it isnt attached at the moment but it can be done, and thats a good idea - is it possible to xp repair onto a slave?

David

i'm not sure if it can be done maybe somebody else can tell u that but i'll take a look around to see if i can find anything

genie3251

Yup , that can be done on a slave drive. Just select the right O.S. to repair during the process.

But that wont help you im afraid , because then it will load the drivers and settings for the hardware from the second pc , and then it wont boot in the first pc anymore.

And since the problem is also there when youre in youre bios then it wont be a windows or HD problem.

More likely a hardware or heat problem , do all the fans still work inside?