Hi Elizabeth, In reply to your last post questionnns and comment indicated below by *
* xp cannot install on a sata drive without a sata controller, which has to be installed from a floppy disk or with the sata controller slipstreamed into the cd with nlite.
The 755 was built by Dell with an OEM 300GB Sata HD which died and was not recoverable.
* have you ever done a clean install ??
The replacement 330 GB HD is also a Sata, it was formatted and a Clean install was done from an installation disc.
* was the old drive ide or sata??
It was an OEM Sata HD, it came that way from the Dell factory. It was a Seagate Model Number ST3300831SCE
* you can go to dell and the website has the option to let dell scan your system and then tell you what is missing.
Dell System detect will not install, may be classified as a PUP. Will not install in safe mode either. It used to run OK on the original HD.
* you should also run checkdisk with the /r parameter
Done.
* go to start>run> and type in eventvwr.msc, click on the applications directory, and in the right hand panel choose winlogon.
Here are the results.
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 71 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 71 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 71 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
102398278 KB total disk space.
11651812 KB in 39536 files.
11532 KB in 4671 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
157690 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
90577244 KB available on disk.
Nothing unusual found with chkdsk.
To sum up so far, all appears OK except that the Dell System Detect will not install, So the Dell tests will not run.
Peter B.