XP won't shut down

I had a hard drive crash, so I installed my OS on another drive I was running (250G Maxtor, SATA). I used "Tweak XP" to put a shutdown and a restart shortcut on my desktop. So now, when I try to shut down my computer, either using this shortcut or by using the "Start, Turn Off Computer, Shutdown", my system restarts, or goes to black screen and just sits there. The restart command work fine, doing it either way. The target line for the desktop shortcut is

"C:\Program Files\Tweak-XP Pro 3\command.exe" -shutdown

I noticed this problem right after I did the fresh install of XP on my SATA hard drive. I'm not sure if it was doing it before I used Tweak XP or not, because I installed it & put on the shortcuts before I ever tried to shut down for the first time.

For 2 or 3 days before the crash I was making signs & typing guidelines for a Motel. I made these using Word 2000. I didn't access the internet or download or install anything new.

One night, everything was fine, the next day I try to start up & found the hard drive had crashed. When I booted to my other HD & looked at the files on my old "C", there were only about 10 files on it, all named by small letters, like b, d, or m. The size of the files are anywhere from 5300kb to 555,700kb, totaling about 5 or 6 gig. The file types are all "file". I can't manipulate them in any way, not even delete them. My old "C" drive was 80gb PATA, (about 80% used), which I ran as a slave to "her" 40gb.

Just for the Hell of it, I reformatted the drive & reinstalled XP on it. That night it seemed to work OK. But the next morning it wouldn't boot again, so I installed XP on the 250 & just unhooked the 80.

Here is some other info that may or may not have anything to do with anything. I have 3 hard drives in one tower. Up until I had the crash, my wife booted up one on one (40gb), I booted off another (80gb), and we both used the 250 for storage. We've been using this method for the past 4 or so years. This is the 2nd computer I've assembled to do this with, & up until the other day we had no problems. We go into the setup screen and change the first boot drive to the appropriate one and go.

When I had to put my OS on the 250 (after the crash), I noticed that sometimes when I was going to change which drive to boot to, the 250 wasn't listed, just "her" drive and another entry called "other bootable cards". If I chose this, it would boot to my HD. Sometimes I would look at the boot drives and it would list her drive, my drive AND the "other bootable cards" entry.

One other thing, when I was booted up on the 250 ("my drive") and ran the command line START > RUN > cmd > OK (type) shutdown -s -f -t 00 > ENTER, it shut down to black screen, but never turned off. I pushed the power button to turn it off and when I restarted it, it booted to "her" HD. I restarted again and went into setup, selected "my" HD (it was listed), and started up fine.

This is the first time I've had any issues like this and I'm at a loss as to it's cause. (Obviously, cause I'm here!) I am on cable internet, but have my firewall turned on and I have a firewall on a Belkin router. I'm using AVG antivirus. The 80gb drive was about 3 yrs old, the 40gb is about 4 yrs old and the 250gb is less than 1 yr old. All 3 are Maxtor.

Sorry to be so windy, but I'm trying to give you anything I can to help.

Mark

 

I can't believe nobody has ANYTHING to say about this?:mad

 

SATA drives generally have their own drivers, which XP may not even see the drive, during install of XP did you use the F6 key to install them before installing XP? sounds to me like the SATA drivers may be corrupted