I just went through hell on my cab/desktop. Couldn't get it to boot to save my life. At first I thought it was windblows (™). Then I couldn't move the cursor by the arrow keys- wtf? I never had problems with that keyboard- in fact, I'm on it now! Only my flexible keyboard would move the cursor by the arrow keys- what? I tried restoring from the disc- Failed. System Restore- Failed while restoring. Startup repair-Failed. I had another hdd (when I was making partitions) that used an unused partition to install new windows on, and hopefully boot from that disc, and get my other one to boot, by going in through the other. New windows installed, but wouldn't reboot either. Wtf do I do now?
Now I admit, I have a reputation for screwing with things and seeing what I can make my computer do. I even had it overclocked all the way to 3.9. (from 3.1) on air cooling. I mean, this computer runs this site (files, and changes, I don't host it myself), my cab, and all my other stuff as well. But that wasn't the case here. No hardware failures of any kind. Making tables keeps me from doing stuff like that...
Finally, I took it to Microcenter, and had tech support look at it. He tried all the same things I did and got the same result- now I know I was doing the right things if he's trying the same fixes. We finally got the new windows hdd to boot (maybe it just wasn't done, I don't know), and now have to migrate all my files onto the smaller (5oomb) hdd. I have a buttload of programs, not all of which I use, but some I want- just in case I want to do something. Not to mention I have to go through EVERY table on my cab and readjust it (DMD's).
Unless I can figure out how to import my old registry....
