Windows xp sp2 boot problems and hdd

Discussion in 'Software' started by primatas, Jan 31, 2008.

  1. primatas

    primatas Private E-2

    well, i had several problems these days, i had formated my hdd, in fact it was disturbed in the middle of formating, after that action i had my windows instalation and now i had formated all my hdd's and yesterday my computer made some noises from hdd time by time, i dono, maybe i just haven't heared them befor, but anyway it was making noise.. i made defragmantation for all hdds, but strange stuff where still going on :/ some times computer just stucked in the middle of anything, i dono.. strange. sometime when it stucked and i had to restart it, firstly dos said, that there are no bootble cds/hdd when i reconnected my hdd's evrything were good. today i have new problem.. it restarts evrytime i turn it on, during loading screen it doesn't give any errors, just restart. i've loaded default dos setings and started safe mode, in safe mode i got a line: press esc to continue or smth, anyway the problem with SPTD.sys i founded some topics here about it and i tried to check C:\ with chdsk /r c: nut it wrote, that this drive has one or more erros, that can't be solved, so i checked disk D:\ with the same line (dir command on c:\ gives error too) so i used command line: C:\>dir d: and i got all files listed, windows included, i wrote dir d:\windows\system32\drivers\sptd.sys and it gave a result about that file, then i tried rename command fot it:
    c:\>rename d:\windows\system32\drivers\sptd.sys sptd2.lol and it gave me and error:

    Access denied.

    now it's the and of my knowladge in dos.. i gess i need administrator rights, but i dono how to get them. it's my pc and i know the password of admin rights, so please help me in this situation.

    looking forward for posts.

    <sorry for grammatic mistakes :} >
     
  2. baklogic

    baklogic The Tinkerer

    Hi there primatas, Welcome to majorgeeks.
    When a hard drive has errors on it, that will not be fixed, and clicking noises, it would appear to indicate a hard drive failure.
    Depending on your computer knowledge, or, ability - If you have a spare hard drive, or, a freind has one, then reinstall on that- if not you can purchase a hard drive reasonably, (80gb, for £20 , or, so, if you can manage the cost).
    Anyone at majorgeeks can run through it, if you need more detail.
    Obviously you have some access to the web, so I suggest you look to see what hard drive you have installed.
    If it is a maxtor, or, seagate , then the seagate download tool for dos can tell you, download, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2858.html
    If another type look in majorgeeks downloads for a similar tool for that name.
    An outside chance is hard drive repair-http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDD_Regenerator_d5235.html
     

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