[dreadpiratedazza]

Hi Everyone,

 

just bought a new pc and getting rid of old one.

 

I created 3 recovery disks on DVD-RW using the Acer Erecovery utility within the Windows Vista of my old pc.

 

I then used dban (Darik's Nuke and Reboot) to securely remove all data from both hard drives. This was successful.

 

I then rebooted the pc using the first recovery disk in an attempt to restore Windows Vista to its factory settings.

 

It seems to work but then gets stuck on this message in the top left. I left it for a couple of hours to see if it would pass but to no avail.

 

"ed checksum"

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

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   dreadpiratedazza,

 

checksum errors are commonly associated with an incorrect boot configuration/BIOS setting and nothing to do with Windows itself.

 

Have you gone into the BIOS and checked that the time and date are current.

 

If you have checked the BIOS settings, what is the present boot order.

 

Is the HDD detected in the BIOS, a Seagate HDD will begin with the letters ST and a Western Digital HDD will begin with WD, other brands vary and please note that any mention of a HDD in the BOOT sequence that is not labelled with such letters is only the boot order and not the BIOS detecting the presence of a HDD. 

[phillpower2]

   dreadpiratedazza,

 

checksum errors are commonly associated with an incorrect boot configuration/BIOS setting and nothing to do with Windows itself.

 

Have you gone into the BIOS and checked that the time and date are current.

 

If you have checked the BIOS settings, what is the present boot order.

 

Is the HDD detected in the BIOS, a Seagate HDD will begin with the letters ST and a Western Digital HDD will begin with WD, other brands vary and please note that any mention of a HDD in the BOOT sequence that is not labelled with such letters is only the boot order and not the BIOS detecting the presence of a HDD. 

[dreadpiratedazza]

Hi Phillpower2,

[phillpower2]

Hello dreadpiratedazza,

 

If you hit the post answer by mistake you can use the edit tab bottom right of the dialogue input box to add the answers to my questions in my reply #2.

[dreadpiratedazza]

Hi again, hit the wrong key! Thanks for getting back to me. The date and time are correct. The boot order is hard disk, dvd and then nvidia. It doesn't specifically mention the seagate drive in there. However, if you boot without anything in the dvd drive you get: Pxe-e61: Media test failure, pxe-mof: Exiting nvidia boot agent, disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. Just been looking through cmos and advanced bios settings. Under hard disk boot priority I found 'SCSI'. Is that recognition of the seagate drive?

[phillpower2]

Thought so but no problem 

 

The boot order is hard disk, dvd and then nvidia

 

 

As per my reply #2 any mention of a HDD in the boot sequence that is not labelled with such letters is only the boot order and not the BIOS detecting the presence of a HDD. 

 

if you boot without anything in the dvd drive you get: Pxe-e61

 

 

If for some reason a hard drive is not detected the computer will attempt to boot from the network controller if it is on the list of boot devices, you will only get such an error if the HDD is bad or not detected due to a bad connection etc.

 

Just been looking through cmos and advanced bios settings

 

 

Did you see a restore default settings or most stable option.

 

Under hard disk boot priority I found 'SCSI'. Is that recognition of the seagate drive? 

 

 

Unfortunately no, SCSI = Small Computer System Interface.

 

What happens if you press the Alt and the F10 keys down together.

 

There are ways of checking the HDD but you will need access to another computer that has internet + a burner or spare USB thumb drive. 

[dreadpiratedazza]

That was quick. Thanks. Ok, so, to recap: it's clear then that it doesn't recognise the hard disk. Looking at BIOS now, there is a 'load default settings option. Nothing happens with alt+f10 whilst in BIOS. In all of the submenus within the BIOS there is a 'optimized defaults' option on top of the 'load default settings in the main menu. I do have access to another computer but I'm on my phone at the moment. So what's my next move?

[phillpower2]

Looking at BIOS now, there is a 'load default settings option. 

 

 

Select that option, save the settings and then exit the BIOS and then try the disk/s that you created again please.

 

Nothing happens with alt+f10 whilst in BIOS.

 

 

Sorry I should have said to try pressing these two keys down together after restarting the computer and as soon as you see the Acer splash screen, this to see if it produced any type of on screen error message.

 

In all of the submenus within the BIOS there is a 'optimized defaults' 

 

 

This option should not be selected as it is a form of overclocking and can make the computer unstable.

 

 

I do have access to another computer but I'm on my phone at the moment. So what's my next move? 

 

 

Restoring the default settings, trying the disks that you created again and trying the Alt + F10 key suggestion.

[dreadpiratedazza]

Thanks for that. I tried what you said. Even tried alt+f10 during boot up but nothing happened; tried it twice. Also went back into BIOS to see if it recognised the hard disk at all; no joy there. Tried the boot up with the recovery disk I had created but still ended up with

 

ed checksum.

 

However, there was one difference. The error messages concerning "Pxe-e61: Media test failure, pxe-mof: Exiting nvidia boot agent, disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" have disappeared.

 

This is what I get now on the screen just before ed checksum>

 

"AMD data change . . . update new data to DMI!

Boot from AHCI CD-ROM : (I got these two lines before)

1. NO EMULATION System Type- 00"

 

At least something has changed!?

[phillpower2]

I feel that it would be best if we started from scratch now that you have restored the system defaults, a little repetition I`m afraid;

 

Can you post the exact model name or number of the Acer Aspire computer so we can do some research, for example, we need to know if it has IDE or SATA ports.

 

Please check the contents of the recovery disks that you created on another computer, this only involves popping the disks into the drive tray and then manually exploring the contents, this to check if the recovery disk/s themselves are good.

 

Access the BIOS and change the boot order to DVD/CD drive first and the HDD second, save and exit.

 

Try your first recovery disk in the DVD drive, keep a check on the activity LED on both the DVD drive and the HDD, this to see if your recovery disk is being read and if the computer is attempting to send data to the HDD.

 

From your OP;

 

I then used dban (Darik's Nuke and Reboot) to securely remove all data from both hard drives. 

 

 

Just to clarify, are there two physical HDDs present or is there only one that previously had two partitions on it giving you two drive letters, C: and E: for example.

 

Some reading here

[dreadpiratedazza]

Good morning!

 

Model is Acer Aspire X3200. I think I did see SATA mentioned in the BIOS.

 

Here is a Belarc profile of the pc before dban:

 

Operating System

Windows Vista Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 2 (build 6002)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 11/10/2006 08:11:28
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)

 

 

System Model

Acer Aspire X3200
System Serial Number: 9Q3SM7ZU7P912073813003
Enclosure Type: Desktop

 

 

Processor ^a

2.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom 8550 Triple-Core
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (3 total)
Not hyper-threaded

 

 

Main Circuit Board ^b

Board: Acer WMCP78M
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R01-B0 03/03/2009

 

 

Drives

300.20 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
172.28 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ATAPI DVD A DH16A6S SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]

ST332081 3AS SCSI Disk Device (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, SMART Status: Healthy

 

 

Memory Modules ^c,d

2814 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 2048 MB (serial number 0007F6F8)
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB (serial number 864BA856)

 

 

Local Drive Volumes

         

c: (NTFS on drive 0) *

149.69 GB

30.16 GB free

   

f: (NTFS on drive 0)

150.52 GB

142.12 GB free

   

* Operating System is installed on c:

 

 

Network Drives

None detected

 

 

Users (mouse over user name for details)

local user accounts

last logon

Beverley

04/01/2015 09:05:34

 

Darren

26/10/2015 13:16:46

(admin)

UpdatusUser

26/05/2013 08:44:04

 

local system accounts

 

Administrator

11/10/2006 08:34:20

(admin)

Guest

20/10/2015 23:45:17

 

Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account

 

 

Printers

hp LaserJet 1010 HB

on DOT4_001

Microsoft XPS Document Writer

on XPSPort:

 

 

Controllers

IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)
NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller

 

 

Display

NVIDIA GeForce 9200 [Display adapter]
Acer X193HQ [Monitor] (18.5"vis, s/n ETLEH0C02691216B124006, March 2009)

 

 

Bus Adapters

Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (2x)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (2x)

 

 

Multimedia

NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

 

Virus Protection [Back to Top]

Microsoft Security Essentials Version 4.8.0204.0

Scan Engine Version 1.1.12205.0

Virus Definitions Version 25/10/2015 Rev 1.209.434.0

Last Disk Scan on 10 September 2015 18:09:49

Realtime File Scanning On

 

 

Group Policies

None detected

 

 

Communications

     

Microsoft ISATAP Adapter

↑ NETGEAR WG111v3 Wireless-G USB Adapter #2

primary

Auto IP Address:

192.168.0.199 / 24

 

Gateway:

192.168.0.1

 

Dhcp Server:

192.168.0.1

 

Physical Address:

00:22:3F:DD:B8:5F

 

Connection Speed:

54 Mbps

↓ NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

 

Status:

Cable unplugged

 

Dhcp Server:

none responded

 

Physical Address:

00:1D:72:B7:B7:8D

Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

 

Networking Dns Server:

192.168.0.1

 

 

Other Devices

VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
HID-compliant consumer control device
HID-compliant device (2x)
USB Human Interface Device (2x)
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (4x)
Generic volume shadow copy

 

 

USB Storage Use in past 30 Days (mouse over last used for details)[Back to Top]

 

Last Used

SanDisk Cruzer Blade, s/n 200515358018E7C16DD1, rev 1.26

21/10/2015 10:59:26*

SDHC Card, s/n 10000, rev 1.00

12/10/2015 09:23:38*

Apple iPod, s/n 000A2700115BB632, rev 2.70

04/10/2015 09:19:49*

* Possibly used again before the reboot following this time.

 

 

Hosted Virtual Machines (mouse over name for details)[Back to Top]

None detected

 

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Network Map (mouse over IP address for physical address)[Back to Top]

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Missing Security Updates – for Adobe, Apple, Java, Microsoft and more[Back to Top]

Hotfixes from Microsoft Update (agent version 7.6.7600.256) install automatically.
Last install: 14/10/2015 15:55:00, download: 13/10/2015 20:21:40, check: 25/10/2015 08:48:56.

These security updates apply to this computer but are not currently installed (using Advisor definitions version 2015.10.20.1), according to the 10/13/2015 Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary and bulletins from other vendors. Note: Security benchmarks require that Critical and Important severity security updates must be installed.

Hotfix Id

Severity

Description (click to see security bulletin)

EOL-Adobe

End of Life

Adobe Reader 8.3.1.289 is vulnerable and no security updates are provided by the vendor

CpuJul2015-2367936

Critical

Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update for Java 8.0.40.26 32-bit

HT205221

Critical

Apple iTunes security update for iTunes 12.0.1.26

 

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Software Licenses [Back to Top]

   

Belarc - Advisor

aa9c517a

Microsoft - Internet Explorer

89583-OEM-7332157-00211 (Key: 2TYBW-XKCQM-XY9X3-JDXYP-6CJ97)^e

 

 

 

 

Microsoft - Office Outlook Connector

95140000-0081-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE

Microsoft - PowerShell

89383-100-0001260-04309

Microsoft - Windows Vista Home Premium (x64)

 

Microsoft - Works

77058-OEM-0400003-00000

Microsoft - Works 8.0

77058-OEM-0400003-00000

 

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[dreadpiratedazza]

Just looked at the recovery disks on another pc and no error messages come up. Took a screen shot of all three, but I'm struggling to load it up here. Folder structure of all 3 disks looks fine to me.

 

Oh, and on boot up now(without recovery disk) the PXE error messages come up.

[dreadpiratedazza]

Just changed boot sequence to DVD/CD first and HDD second. Saved and exited.

Rebooted twice on the recovery disk but each time got  "ed checksum"

[dreadpiratedazza]

Also, there is no activity light on the DVD drive. However, there is a little blue light on the side in the shape of a battery that does flash on and off intermittently at boot up but not when reading the DVD.

[phillpower2]

Also, there is no activity light on the DVD drive. However, there is a little blue light on the side in the shape of a battery that does flash on and off intermittently at boot up but not when reading the DVD.

 

Suggests a bad drive or disk burn as there is no attempt to read the disk.

 

If you have a spare USB thumb drive you can try Puppy Linux, this will at least allow you to quickly check out the HDDs;

 

There are instructions on how to boot from flash drive with puppy here; http://www.pendrivel...e-from-windows/