Repair is not working. I reboot w/cd in - it loads setup - goes straight to the page asking if I want to to repair - I press r to repair - it says it can't find any drives...What am I doing wrong? Thanks - Shep

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AMD 64 X2 4400 @2.2Ghz-Asus A8V Motherboard-2GB Corsair XMS DDR3200 -4X80 Maxtor 7200 SATA Hard Drive -300GB Seagate-RME 9632-Motormix- UAD1-MAudio Keys 88 Pro-Sonar 6.21 Producer-Guitar Rig2-DFHS-Kontakt 2

Hi Shep I think what has gone wrong is the system restore and the SP3 RC.

I think you maybe looking at a reformat/clean install.

I would backup all your files.data/etc and do a reinstall of windows.

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I've never done a backup of all my files. I have Acronis 10, but I only backup the whole drive with it. Please advise - Thanks,jb!

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AMD 64 X2 4400 @2.2Ghz-Asus A8V Motherboard-2GB Corsair XMS DDR3200 -4X80 Maxtor 7200 SATA Hard Drive -300GB Seagate-RME 9632-Motormix- UAD1-MAudio Keys 88 Pro-Sonar 6.21 Producer-Guitar Rig2-DFHS-Kontakt 2

Do you have a slave drive or an external drive?
Then put all ya files to it or it would be CD/DVD wich is a long lengthy prosess or transfer files over a network to another PC.

I think your XP has become corrupted in some way?

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It is all in the hardware..........................................
Sources:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspx
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/Home/
http://www.petri.co.il/index.htm

PCHF Rules Scan Computer for Driver Updates Pre-Work

Will backing up after the clean install, before any file additions speed my process should I ever have to do this again? I've heard if you don't name the backup correctly, you can have a hard time installing the backup, can you tell how it would be named?

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AMD 64 X2 4400 @2.2Ghz-Asus A8V Motherboard-2GB Corsair XMS DDR3200 -4X80 Maxtor 7200 SATA Hard Drive -300GB Seagate-RME 9632-Motormix- UAD1-MAudio Keys 88 Pro-Sonar 6.21 Producer-Guitar Rig2-DFHS-Kontakt 2

Put all your files as in music/videos/paper work to an external HDD/CD/DVD etc.DO THIS FIRST.

Then do a reformat of your computer.

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It is all in the hardware..........................................
Sources:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspx
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/Home/
http://www.petri.co.il/index.htm

PCHF Rules Scan Computer for Driver Updates Pre-Work

Can I use Acronis to make a backup to my ext. drive that includes everything except the OS? how would I? I'm a total noob on it - I've only made full backups of my c drive. Thanks man, Shep

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Shep -
AMD 64 X2 4400 @2.2Ghz-Asus A8V Motherboard-2GB Corsair XMS DDR3200 -4X80 Maxtor 7200 SATA Hard Drive -300GB Seagate-RME 9632-Motormix- UAD1-MAudio Keys 88 Pro-Sonar 6.21 Producer-Guitar Rig2-DFHS-Kontakt 2

Sorry I have never used that programm.
Do you have another HDD you could use as a main drive then no need to backup any thing.As every thing would be still there.But the main drive would then be used as a slave.

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It is all in the hardware..........................................
Sources:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspx
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/Home/
http://www.petri.co.il/index.htm

PCHF Rules Scan Computer for Driver Updates Pre-Work

I don't have room in my pc for any more, I am gonna figure out Acronis, back up the data and do a clean install, then reload my data from Acronis. I'll let ya know how I fare. I appreciate your help and patience. Donation on way again, you guys are the best.

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Shep -
AMD 64 X2 4400 @2.2Ghz-Asus A8V Motherboard-2GB Corsair XMS DDR3200 -4X80 Maxtor 7200 SATA Hard Drive -300GB Seagate-RME 9632-Motormix- UAD1-MAudio Keys 88 Pro-Sonar 6.21 Producer-Guitar Rig2-DFHS-Kontakt 2

Sorry I can not help on the programm you use.

I hope it goes well,I am sure a reformat with solve the problems and do not install SP3 RC again untill it is fully functional and its final release.

Let me know how it all goes thankyou.

Miss Jelly Bean.

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It is all in the hardware..........................................
Sources:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/default.aspx
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/Home/
http://www.petri.co.il/index.htm

PCHF Rules Scan Computer for Driver Updates Pre-Work