Harddrive broken? Or system error? IDK

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F1stickman

I am having trouble installing windows xp to my netvista, which is not modified in anyway except i removed one of the ram sticks to clear up a 1-3-3-1 error beep code.

The reason im reinstalling is because it worked great until one day it started getting to the boot screen, and then an error would show and it would be in a reboot loop until i pulled the plug. There is nothing i want to keep on that computer as it was for games only.

I put my usb in my computer and its all great, until i reach formatting... then i chose "full" the first time and it was at 0% for at least a day. Then i tried quick, and i got to 100% and it stayed there. I really dont know what to do.

Im starting to think it's a hard-drive problem but im not sure.

Note: I cannot login to the desktop menu screen
 
did you first go into the bios and choose to boot from a flash drive?

what is the make, model and model number of the pc??

are you sure it is a full install on the flash drive and not a recovery install??

did you do a test of your memory with memtest +86??
 
I made sure to boot from my usb, but it was listed as hard drive +, i think

It is a 2001 IBM NetVista with 2.0 hertz, Pentium 4.

I am certain it is a full install of windows xp sp3.

I dont know what memtest 86+ is.

Do you need a picture of the 2 info stickers with the product keys on them?
 
http://www.memtest.org/

above is the page for memtest, it is a memory checker, since you said that your memory stick was bad with a beep code.

are you sure that the flash drive is a bootable usb?

no I do not need the product keys and you should never put your product keys online. :)

1) Shut down the operating system and turn off your computer.
2) Press and hold down the F1 key, and then turn on the computer.
3) When an IBM or other logo is displayed or if you hear repeating beeps, release the F1 key. The IBM BIOS Setup Utility will start.
4) Select "Start Options" from the first menu.
5) From the Start Options menu, press <Enter> on the top bullet labeled "Startup Sequence" (it is above all the other options). This brings up a new "Startup Sequence" menu.
6) Change boot order as needed using arrow keys.
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above from this thread, it is on how to find the boot sequence change option

I am giving you a search page to check out several threads as evidently a clean install on a netvista pc is a major problem :)
 
I am sure it is bootable because i used an app to modify the usb drive to be able to boot from.

Also, when i tried to boot memtest it said:
"No OS detected. F1 to retry"

It did that for every single one if my bootable OS usb wasnt plugged in.

I will try "factory settings" to see if that will work.

And i will also try booting memtest again with this link... i think i used the wrong site.

I will reply back after i try.
 
I followed those steps,when using Memtest 86, and i made sure i was using the right bootup method, it said "Error Loading Operating System" idk why.
 
I had that error after removing Windows 7 and trying to re-install XP Pro. I also tried the FixBoot and FixMBR functions on my disk with no luck. I deleted all the partitions and started over also with no luck. In the end I downloaded the Western Digital Tools for my drive and wrote all 0's to the drive. After that I was able to install XP again.
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above from this thread, I do not think it is the OS problem, I think it is a harddrive problem, read the whole thread and let me know what you think.
 
I’m almost positive that you have a bad hard drive. PXE means Pre-Boot Execution Environment. You see this message when the laptop trying to boot from a remote server using the network card. If you didn’t see the PXE-E61 message before, it means that the network card was listed after the hard drive in the boot order (you can set the order in BIOS) and the laptop booted directly from the hard drive. Now, when the hard drive has failed, the laptop cannot detect it and tries to boot from the next available device – the network card. Your laptop is not configured to boot from a remote server using the network card, that’s why you are getting PXE-E61 Media test failure error. You have to replace the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
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above from here, if your drive is bad and there is data on it that you want, you might take the drive out and see if you can slave it to another pc and copy the data off it.
 
if you want to continue using that pc then you need a new drive , and you will have to make sure that the new drive will accept installation of xp, a lot of newer ones will not.
 
I have tried to find out what type of replacement harddrive is needed for a 2001 ibm netvista, but I have not found one yet. You will probably have to take the old drive out and then copy the info from it and see if you can find a like one online, try newegg.com
 
I have a:

Maxtor

DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB ATA/133 HDD

Date: 11Dec2002

Code NAR61590 LBA78156288

HDD SN: E13SWYAE

IBM P/N: 24P3782
IBM FRU: 19K1568


Anything else you need?

I am also going to look
 
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