From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:42384269$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Post mortem....Something VERY odd about this machine.  A parallel install
> works fine, boots properly.
>
> Copied off their personal files to a CDR for backup, and they have all the
> program CD's to re-install any user added software, so they're covered.
>
> Re-confirmed that the original 80gig HD was configured as MASTER, on the
> PRIMARY controller, and used the eMachine Recovery CD's, which is 3 CD's,
> and restores an IMAGE of the CD as it was originally delivered, totally
> re-formatting the HD, back to square one.
>
> That proceeds, completes, and the machine boots like an "out of
the box"
> new computer.  Goes through the picking Time Zone, language, all that
> stuff. The next screen, is where you put in the computer name.  I gave it
> a SIMPLE name (family last name), and a simple description.  Clicked Next,
> and the system goes off into never-never land.  Sat at that screen for at
> least 20 minutes.  You could click on the HELP button, and you'd get the
> Help for that page, but it refused to go on any further.  So, I left it
> with them, to sit there and churn overnight, to see if it would ever
> finish.  Also told them, since they had just bought it at Best Buy at
> Christmas, and they bought the extra warranty, to take it to their "Geek
> Squad", and let THEM restore the system back to "out of
box" condition.
>
> Too weird for me.....I've hit some really strange ones this year.  Maybe
> it's better to buy the "higher priced spread", or build your
> own.....
>
> Thanks for all the help/input folks...


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Sorry, I'm in pass, did You check fixboot and the A (Active) flag is set on
Your *primary* partition ?
This is a must on Windows else they will never boot :)

Bye, goto Life proc.


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M.

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