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Still no success

I can not get it to show earlier version of windows
I manually entered it and I get the Windows failed to start. File\ntldr

[NT50 Profile]

Ok Im pi$$ed
I have formated, deleted partitions, created partitions, Gparted, wiped out, zapped, bam boom, you name it.
Im stuck till futher notice.

What gets me is the files to boot XP are on the 200 meg hard drive. The installation just does not complete.

I have installed Win7 only and started the install of XP on partition 3 primary partition. Reboot and I dont even get the error. I get nothing. I do a repair and get the dreaded error, I repair again and Win7 starts. I reboot and reboot and nothing. I add the entry for XP and nothing.

I wiped out all partitions again. Insall Win7. Install XP (long format) and same thign. Thing time I repair and get the error. I repair again and nothing, I repair again nad nothing. So I hit that button on the computer that says you cant do nothign with no power you stupid computer.

Now that is how my day has went so far with no interent, internet, to laggging internet with a download speed of 25 kb/sec and a ping of 400 to 1750.

[yeshuas]

Wow, I am sorry for all the trouble you are having,

This may be a dumb question, but could there be something wrong with your XP disk?
Have you tried installing XP first?

[NT50 Profile]

I have used the disk in the past. It has no problems going through the pre-installation and coping the files over. It is just the first reboot. Can't get past the error or no error at all.

I am considering creating the partitions with GParted or Windows XP disk and then installing Win 7 to see if it creates the 200 meg partition.

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Daniel

I have not tried intalling XP first. I figure that will be the easy one. Right now I gota work on my WHS, I just lost a hard drvie and it crashed.

[yeshuas]

Daniel

I have not tried intalling XP first. I figure that will be the easy one. Right now I gota work on my WHS, I just lost a hard drvie and it crashed.

I didn't fool with WHS enough myself. I don't guess it would be possible to set it up on like a RAid 5 array, but then how many normal households would have a Raid 5 or even a Raid 1 for that matter.

So how do you go about recovering from a failed HD with WHS?

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

WHS (at least in the Beta) did not support RAID [I don't think it did anyhow]........... Hopefully Jeff has backups - from my limited WHS beta experience, it would create a MINIMAL OS HDD partition of around 20GB and all remaining disk space was allocated as "STORAGE"

[NT50 Profile]

Kevin is correct.
It does all it RAID via software. It takes how many hard drives you have and puts them all together.
I tried to recover the system but it failed.
I ened up redoing hte complete system
As for backups, yes I have 3 backups.

[shreader]

> I tried to recover the system but it failed.
I ened up redoing hte complete system
As for backups, yes I have 3 backups.

Was the WHS system on the drive that crashed?

Hopefully you backups can be moved & survive the system reinstall ok

Starting from scratch would stink, I hope it worked out.

[NT50 Profile]

I lost all my backups that were on the home server including music files, ISO's and more. BUT I had another backup and another backup. I nothing is truely lost.