From: noone@nowhere.noway.con   
      
   On 13/03/2013 11:19, philo  wrote:   
   > On 03/12/2013 10:26 PM, Grinder wrote:   
   >> On 3/12/2013 8:13 PM, philo  wrote:   
   >>> I was given a Gateway... XP Media Center machine to repair.   
   >>>   
   >>> It would not boot normally or to safe mode due to the SATA driver being   
   >>> corrupted. (It blue-screened)   
   >>>   
   >>> I could not do a system restore as the owner was given no media...the   
   >>> only choice was a factory restore which would have been a major PITA.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> After running diagnostics on the RAM and HD and finding all OK...   
   >>>   
   >>> I looked at the drive configuration in the BIOS and saw there was an   
   >>> option to configure the SATA drives as IDE.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It got past the point where it blue-screened and looked like it was   
   >>> going to work OK but I got a message that it could not log me on to the   
   >>> owner's profile and it was going to create a temporary profile.   
   >>>   
   >>> I was able to then log on, perform a System Restore   
   >>> and all seems to be working fine now.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> The weird thing...in all the years I've been repairing computers...   
   >>> I never saw a temporary profile being set up.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Just curious to see if anyone ran into that before?   
   >>   
   >> I've seen that before when the user profile is corrupted or if it is   
   >> otherwise unavailable.  Say, for example, if it's being stored on a   
   >> secondary drive that has failed.   
   >>   
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   > Glad I was not the only one.   
   >   
   > I have the machine up and running now with SATA set to IDE in the bios   
   >   
   > Now I have to see if I can get the SATA drivers working   
   >   
      
   You sure it wasn't just the owner changing the BIOS to AHCI mode,   
   perhaps after reading some article saying that is worth doing?   
   To be honest, changing to ACHI mode and installing AHCI drivers   
   into a running copy of XP already booting in IDE mode is rarely   
   worth doing and can be rather tricky, sometimes resulting in the   
   need to do a Repair Install.  Sometimes even a full re-install   
   may be needed if a mistake is made in the process.   
   --   
   Rob   
      
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