[Kinyo]

Doesn't look like it is there. I am currently going through each folder to see if it is there. there is about 1000. Does xPUD have a search function?

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The drive that has a thousand folders is probably the I: drive and would contain windows so can skip that. We are looking for a drive that is small (about 15g in size) and contains either the I386 folder or a small count image file.

In some systems with preinstalled OS's these copy of the OS are deleted once you create the recovery CD while in some the system just leave it there intact. I am hoping for the latter.

I am leaving for work and will be back online after 15 minutes.

edit:

The command for finding files in linux is:

find -name [filename]

Edited by Salagubang, 16 January 2011 - 06:10 PM.

[Salagubang]

The drive that has a thousand folders is probably the I: drive and would contain windows so can skip that. We are looking for a drive that is small (about 15g in size) and contains either the I386 folder or a small count image file.

In some systems with preinstalled OS's these copy of the OS are deleted once you create the recovery CD while in some the system just leave it there intact. I am hoping for the latter.

I am leaving for work and will be back online after 15 minutes.

edit:

The command for finding files in linux is:

find -name [filename]

Edited by Salagubang, 16 January 2011 - 06:10 PM.

[Kinyo]

Yeah sda3 = 1000 folders.

sda1 and sda2 seems to be the folders, but neither of them have the folder you seek.

Is there a way we can make all these drives into 1 and then make our own partition drive?

[Salagubang]

Is there a way we can make all these drives into 1 and then make our own partition drive?

Yes that would be possible. We'll try to fix windows first as we don't have an install disk.

iastor.sys is related storage controller driver. I am not sure why is it throwing errors with a simple recovery.

What I would like you to try is go to BIOS and set the AHCI/SATA to compatibility mode. To do this:

• Restart computer and press Del to enter BIOS.
• Find and set the ACHI/SATA to compatibility mode.
• Save then restart the full recovery.

Edited by Salagubang, 16 January 2011 - 07:01 PM.

[Kinyo]

Sorry, but I cannot find: AHCI/SATA

"Onboard SATA Mode: RAID" Options: Native IDE, RAID, AHCI

I have that.

Edited by Kinyo, 16 January 2011 - 07:19 PM.

[Salagubang]

Can you give me screenshot of the "advanced tab"?

[Salagubang]

Oops I didnt see you responded already.

Skip the images and choose "Native IDE".

[Kinyo]

[Salagubang]

Yep, in the onboard SATA Mode choose Native IDE; Save then perform the full recovery. Tell me how it goes.

[Kinyo]

So once this is done, I just see if Windows will start/work?

Should be done in 10 minutes or so

[Salagubang]

So once this is done, I just see if Windows will start/work?

Yes, that is the idea. Tell me if you still encounter problems.

[Kinyo]

We are in business my friend. Windows did its thing, rebooted and then it let me create a user + password. I then chose time zone. And it said its loading for 2 minutes. And then BSOD.

[Kinyo]

It restarted. I clicked Start Windows Normally. So I made another user. this time it went so far as to say "Setting up Desktop" and then I got BSOD. This time I recorded it. I can show you a picture of it. Interested?

[Kinyo]

I never put the video card back in. Should i put it back in?

Edited by Kinyo, 16 January 2011 - 08:35 PM.

[Salagubang]

I am beginning to not like this recovery CD.

Yes pictures please. Its good for documention purposes.