I am putting together a new computer for granddaughter for christmas and son
wants me to use harddrive out of his computer that needs power supply, but
drive is good. I'm using a motherboard that I have, but only get to
verifying dmi pool data when booting, stops there, won't go further. Drive
is out of HP Pent 4 2.53ghz. WD/80gb. I want to leave motherboard in older
computer and install power supply later. How do I get new computer ( new
case anyway) to boot. Have changed jumpers on drive, settings in bios, still
no boot. I have win xp cd that I have, but older computer was bought with xp
pre installed. He has lots of pictures he wants to keep from drive, and I
know I can put another drive in, trying to save extra expense as this "pink
case" was enough. Any help appreciated. Specs for motherboard I want to
install are below. Thanks.
Motherboard ID:
11/19/2001 VT8336-8233-6A6L-VM4AC-00
Motherboard chipset:
VIA VT8366A Appolo KT 266A
Using AMD Athlon XP 1800 ( older stuff I know, but still works good enough
for 7 yr old)
"DaddyJim" <jj2145@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am putting together a new computer for granddaughter for christmas and
son
> wants me to use harddrive out of his computer that needs power supply, but
> drive is good. I'm using a motherboard that I have, but only get to
> verifying dmi pool data when booting, stops there, won't go further. Drive
> is out of HP Pent 4 2.53ghz. WD/80gb. I want to leave motherboard in
older
> computer and install power supply later. How do I get new computer ( new
> case anyway) to boot. Have changed jumpers on drive, settings in bios,
still
> no boot. I have win xp cd that I have, but older computer was bought with
xp
> pre installed. He has lots of pictures he wants to keep from drive, and I
> know I can put another drive in, trying to save extra expense as this
"pink
> case" was enough. Any help appreciated. Specs for motherboard I want to
> install are below. Thanks.
>
>
To get a drive with an OS already on it to work in another machine...
a repair installation is usually in order.
The other method would be to perform a parallel installtion
****be sure NOT to format the drive *** if you choose that option
also note: To access the files that are already there it's possible you may
have to take ownership
if they are located within one of the profiles.
You safest option would be to just put in a different drive as
you'd probably have to repeat the process when you put the drive back in
the original machine!
DaddyJim wrote:
>
> I am putting together a new computer for granddaughter for
> christmas and son wants me to use harddrive out of his computer
> that needs power supply, but drive is good. I'm using a motherboard
> that I have, but only get to verifying dmi pool data when booting,
> stops there, won't go further. Drive is out of HP Pent 4 2.53ghz.
.... snip ...
Just get and install Ubuntu. Try ubuntu.com for a free CD.
--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>
Try the download section.
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:00:22 -0400, "DaddyJim"
<jj2145@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am putting together a new computer for granddaughter for christmas and son
>wants me to use harddrive out of his computer that needs power supply, but
>drive is good.
Is it possible the drive was damaged by the failing PSU or
had it been tested working in another system already?
>I'm using a motherboard that I have, but only get to
>verifying dmi pool data when booting, stops there, won't go further.
As you suspect, the next step is to check the boot devices
in turn for one that's viable.
>Drive
>is out of HP Pent 4 2.53ghz. WD/80gb. I want to leave motherboard in older
>computer and install power supply later. How do I get new computer ( new
>case anyway) to boot. Have changed jumpers on drive,
Are you certain it is jumpered to "Single", not Master
(assuming there is only one drive on the cable- if there is
more than one, temporarily disconnect the other drive to see
if it makes a difference).
>settings in bios, still
>no boot. I have win xp cd that I have, but older computer was bought with xp
>pre installed. He has lots of pictures he wants to keep from drive, and I
>know I can put another drive in, trying to save extra expense as this "pink
>case" was enough. Any help appreciated. Specs for motherboard I want to
>install are below. Thanks.
As another poster has mentioned, windows XP may not run from
this drive because it was installed on the other system.
However, this does not account for the drive failing to
begin loading windows which it is not, so it is entirely a
bios or drive problem (or related, for example if it were a
bad data cable and you had a spare to swap in that would be
a good thing to try).
>
>Motherboard ID:
>11/19/2001 VT8336-8233-6A6L-VM4AC-00
>Motherboard chipset:
>VIA VT8366A Appolo KT 266A
>Using AMD Athlon XP 1800 ( older stuff I know, but still works good enough
>for 7 yr old)
>
You haven't mentioned the board brand, but you might go to
the manufacturer's website and get the latest bios if it
isn't running that already, then clear CMOS via the jumper
while AC power is disconnected from PSU.
If you have a floppy drive (or you're lucky and it will boot
from a USB device, but I doubt it as that is a bit before
most boards were expected to actually be able to do so) you
might boot to DOS to see if the drive is visible... if it's
formatted as NTFS, run FDISK to see if it sees the drive,
partition.
> I am putting together a new computer for granddaughter for christmas and son
> wants me to use harddrive out of his computer that needs power supply, but
> drive is good. I'm using a motherboard that I have, but only get to
> verifying dmi pool data when booting, stops there, won't go further. Drive
> is out of HP Pent 4 2.53ghz. WD/80gb. I want to leave motherboard in older
> computer and install power supply later. How do I get new computer ( new
> case anyway) to boot. Have changed jumpers on drive, settings in bios, still
> no boot. I have win xp cd that I have, but older computer was bought with xp
> pre installed. He has lots of pictures he wants to keep from drive, and I
> know I can put another drive in, trying to save extra expense as this "pink
> case" was enough. Any help appreciated. Specs for motherboard I want to
> install are below. Thanks.
>
> Motherboard ID:
> 11/19/2001 VT8336-8233-6A6L-VM4AC-00
> Motherboard chipset:
> VIA VT8366A Appolo KT 266A
> Using AMD Athlon XP 1800 ( older stuff I know, but still works good enough
> for 7 yr old)
>
>
Based on what I had read, the first thing to do would be to salvage all
of the important pictures, files, documents, etc., from the hard drive.
Get an external USB drive enclosure for this purpose instead of making
it a slave in another computer system. Copy them to a safe place and
make additional backups as well.
The rationale is that Murphy's Law will happen. There already is an
issue, indicated by the "verifying DMI pool data" report. The solution
may not be an easy one but which could ultimately change the geometry
of the hard drive. And if this hard drive has an OS from another system,
it might not be compatible with the new, target system, the "repair" of
which can also be catastrophic. And then there is, of course, the option
of a new, clean install.
Sort out what needs to be logically and determine how to do it.
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:16:16 -0700, GHalleck
<ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote:
<snip>
>There already is an
>issue, indicated by the "verifying DMI pool data" report.
Some boards/bios display that "verifying..." message when
working normally, every time they boot, but it is only
onscreen for a brief moment as it's the last thing seen
before the onscreen result of booting from (any viable) boot
drive.
kony wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:16:16 -0700, GHalleck
> <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>There already is an
>>issue, indicated by the "verifying DMI pool data" report.
>
>
> Some boards/bios display that "verifying..." message when
> working normally, every time they boot, but it is only
> onscreen for a brief moment as it's the last thing seen
> before the onscreen result of booting from (any viable) boot
> drive.
>
But most motherboards with functioning bioses do not hang after the
"verifying DMI pool data" message.
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:37:29 -0800, Mistoffolees
<mistyfac01@danang.rvn> wrote:
>
>kony wrote:
>> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:16:16 -0700, GHalleck
>> <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>There already is an
>>>issue, indicated by the "verifying DMI pool data" report.
>>
>>
>> Some boards/bios display that "verifying..." message when
>> working normally, every time they boot, but it is only
>> onscreen for a brief moment as it's the last thing seen
>> before the onscreen result of booting from (any viable) boot
>> drive.
>>
>
>But most motherboards with functioning bioses do not hang after the
>"verifying DMI pool data" message.
Any motherboard that displays the "verifying..." message may
potentially hang when it can't find a boot device, it does
not mean the bios is malfunctioning necessarily it just
means the bios wasn't designed with an *out* of that loop
like resetting or displaying a message.
Guess I've really ******* up now. Took first posts advice, tried repair, now
I get the Verifying DMI Pool Data with 2 Y's at bottom of screen with crazy
symbol beside each Y. Have no idea what this means, except messed up drive
even more I suppose. I have installed another drive, loaded win xp, and
everything working fine. Point is, I wanted to salvage data on other drive,
(which I know for a fact was good drive), but I took bad advise. Live and
learn I guess.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:41:14 -0500, "DaddyJim"
<jj2145@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Guess I've really ******* up now. Took first posts advice, tried repair, now
>I get the Verifying DMI Pool Data with 2 Y's at bottom of screen with crazy
>symbol beside each Y. Have no idea what this means, except messed up drive
>even more I suppose. I have installed another drive, loaded win xp, and
>everything working fine. Point is, I wanted to salvage data on other drive,
>(which I know for a fact was good drive), but I took bad advise. Live and
>learn I guess.
>
I know of no particular issues with your motherboard or
chipset, it should've been fairly straightforward to install
and boot XP. I also wonder if the drive label shows the
jumpering in a confusing way and the jumpers are still
wrong.
You wrote that you booted the XP CD, it saw the drive and
existing XP installation on it, and it seemed to do a repair
on that installation and complete successfully, but still it
does not boot? Had you yet rechecked the jumpering to be
"single" and disconnected the other drives? Regardless,
if the old XP installation won't boot on the new system then
the current goal is getting the motherboard bios to properly
detect the drive then to just boot to the new drive, new XP
installation and proceed to copy the data off the other
drive.
If the other/old drive is unresponsive in windows and/or not
properly detected in the bios then it is time to run the HDD
manufacturer's utilities. Having "repaired" XP would not
have done away with your data, it should still be on the
drive as before the repair... unless you really meant you
did a new clean install which included formatting the drive
(chosing specifically to do so) right before beginning that
install to that drive and partition.
motherboard & harddrive 
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