"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:78Sdne1XSb_gsg_eRVn-rg@comcast.com...
> > Check your BIOS setup and see if the motherboard is seeing all drives if
> > not it may be a bad connection on the ribbon cable or an incompatible
> > cable.
> >
>
> BIOS sees the drive. The drive worked before it formatted it, but I
thought
> it was heavily loaded with viruses (virii). Now, if shows up during boot,
> but the 'puter hangs with the message, Verifying DMI Pool Data.
>
>
>
>
> > If I understand your problem you are trying to install a new HD and it
was
> > in another computer?
>
> Not exactly. I had the drive installed in Computer 1. I put it into
Computer
> 2 as a slave to format it, then put it back into Computer 1. Now I want to
> load Win XP back on, but I can't get past the boot sequence.
>
>
>
> You formatted the drive in one computer and now you
> > want it as a master in another. Was the drive you formatted NTFS or
> > FAT32? If it was NTFS there is a partition on it that formatting does
not
> > remove and if it is being used in a FAT 32 machine it won't work. You
> > need to do an FDisk delete all partitions, them do a full format.
> >
>
> NTFS. Fdisk doesn't work in XP. I think I did a Full Format. The format
> initially dod a Quick Format that was complete in about 10 seconds. The
Full
> Format took about 10 minutes.
>
>
>
> > You will need to boot from XP pro install disk or
http://www.bootdisk.com/
> > download the boot disk for xp and do a clean install'
> >
>
> The trouble I'm having is that the Boot Disk (Win XP Install CD) isn't
being
> read from. It appears during Boot, but the message, "Verifying DMI Pool
> Data" is holding me up. I don't know what DMI Pool Data is ...
>
> I'll try that link and let you know what happened ...
>

Just an FYI for you
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

Chris

 

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:M42dnYe3U4agrw_enZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@ez2.net...
>
> "Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:78Sdne1XSb_gsg_eRVn-rg@comcast.com...
> > Check your BIOS setup and see if the motherboard is seeing all drives if
> > not it may be a bad connection on the ribbon cable or an incompatible
> > cable.
> >
>
> BIOS sees the drive. The drive worked before it formatted it, but I
thought
> it was heavily loaded with viruses (virii). Now, if shows up during boot,
> but the 'puter hangs with the message, Verifying DMI Pool Data.
>
>
>
>
> > If I understand your problem you are trying to install a new HD and it
was
> > in another computer?
>
> Not exactly. I had the drive installed in Computer 1. I put it into
Computer
> 2 as a slave to format it, then put it back into Computer 1. Now I want to
> load Win XP back on, but I can't get past the boot sequence.
>
>
>
> You formatted the drive in one computer and now you
> > want it as a master in another. Was the drive you formatted NTFS or
> > FAT32? If it was NTFS there is a partition on it that formatting does
not
> > remove and if it is being used in a FAT 32 machine it won't work. You
> > need to do an FDisk delete all partitions, them do a full format.
> >
>
> NTFS. Fdisk doesn't work in XP. I think I did a Full Format. The format
> initially dod a Quick Format that was complete in about 10 seconds. The
Full
> Format took about 10 minutes.
>
>
>
> > You will need to boot from XP pro install disk or
http://www.bootdisk.com/
> > download the boot disk for xp and do a clean install'
> >
>
> The trouble I'm having is that the Boot Disk (Win XP Install CD) isn't
being
> read from. It appears during Boot, but the message, "Verifying DMI Pool
> Data" is holding me up. I don't know what DMI Pool Data is ...
>
> I'll try that link and let you know what happened ...
>

Just an FYI for you
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

Chris

 

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:M42dnYe3U4agrw_enZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@ez2.net...
>
> "Coasty" <uscg_retSPOOGE@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:78Sdne1XSb_gsg_eRVn-rg@comcast.com...
> > Check your BIOS setup and see if the motherboard is seeing all drives if
> > not it may be a bad connection on the ribbon cable or an incompatible
> > cable.
> >
>
> BIOS sees the drive. The drive worked before it formatted it, but I
thought
> it was heavily loaded with viruses (virii). Now, if shows up during boot,
> but the 'puter hangs with the message, Verifying DMI Pool Data.
>
>
>
>
> > If I understand your problem you are trying to install a new HD and it
was
> > in another computer?
>
> Not exactly. I had the drive installed in Computer 1. I put it into
Computer
> 2 as a slave to format it, then put it back into Computer 1. Now I want to
> load Win XP back on, but I can't get past the boot sequence.
>
>
>
> You formatted the drive in one computer and now you
> > want it as a master in another. Was the drive you formatted NTFS or
> > FAT32? If it was NTFS there is a partition on it that formatting does
not
> > remove and if it is being used in a FAT 32 machine it won't work. You
> > need to do an FDisk delete all partitions, them do a full format.
> >
>
> NTFS. Fdisk doesn't work in XP. I think I did a Full Format. The format
> initially dod a Quick Format that was complete in about 10 seconds. The
Full
> Format took about 10 minutes.
>
>
>
> > You will need to boot from XP pro install disk or
http://www.bootdisk.com/
> > download the boot disk for xp and do a clean install'
> >
>
> The trouble I'm having is that the Boot Disk (Win XP Install CD) isn't
being
> read from. It appears during Boot, but the message, "Verifying DMI Pool
> Data" is holding me up. I don't know what DMI Pool Data is ...
>
> I'll try that link and let you know what happened ...
>

Just an FYI for you
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

Chris

 

What this is saying is that what hardware is expected is not there. That's
because you imaged your hard drive from another machine. That won't work
both from a hardware stand point and a windows XP standpoint. You must build
a XP drive on the machine it's going to be used in. You need to refdisk the
drive and start from scratch with the XP cd on that machine.

JoBo

>
> Just an FYI for you
> http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html
>
> Chris
>
>

 

What this is saying is that what hardware is expected is not there. That's
because you imaged your hard drive from another machine. That won't work
both from a hardware stand point and a windows XP standpoint. You must build
a XP drive on the machine it's going to be used in. You need to refdisk the
drive and start from scratch with the XP cd on that machine.

JoBo

>
> Just an FYI for you
> http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html
>
> Chris
>
>

 

What this is saying is that what hardware is expected is not there. That's
because you imaged your hard drive from another machine. That won't work
both from a hardware stand point and a windows XP standpoint. You must build
a XP drive on the machine it's going to be used in. You need to refdisk the
drive and start from scratch with the XP cd on that machine.

JoBo

>
> Just an FYI for you
> http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html
>
> Chris
>
>

 

Why did you have to reformat the HD in another computer? What was the OS of
ther other computer that you did this in?

Troy

 

Why did you have to reformat the HD in another computer? What was the OS of
ther other computer that you did this in?

Troy

 

Why did you have to reformat the HD in another computer? What was the OS of
ther other computer that you did this in?

Troy

 

Hi Jeff,
The drives I've used do not use a jumper as the master if there is
not secondary. And That would throw your "VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA":
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm
As long as you've reformatted the drive in another computer, I
would put it back in there, and make sure you copied the systems,
providing that computer is running XP, too. Then go ahead and copy your
WinXP installation disk to D:\winXP directory, and install it from
there, and you'll never need the CD again.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
> Sorry for asking computer questions here, but you guys seem to know so much
> more than gears and rocks ...
>
> I got a computer for free that I'm sure had virual enhancements affecting
> its operation.
>
> It is running WinXP Pro with an AMD K6 processor running at 475 Mhz. I
> reformatted the HD by installing it as a Slave (moved a jumper) in another
> machine. Now, I'm trying to put it back into the original machine as the
> Master (reset the applicable jumper), but the original machine now hangs on
> Boot with a message that says VERIFYING DMI POOL DATA.
>
> I can get into the BIOS, and I've set the Boot Sequence to CD>A>C but the
> bootable CD never starts because the Pool Data is not being read. I'm lost
> here, what should I be doing?
>
> Can I turn the HD into a Slave again, and put anything into it and then
> reinstall it as a Master into the original machine? If so, what do I put on
> it?
>
> THE REASON I THINK THE MACHINE WAS VIRUALLY ENHANCED
> The Task Manager reported in the Performance tab that the processor was
> running at 100% all of the time. I went into the various settings in Task
> Manager to set the priorities for runing processes to the minimal settings
> and smallest possible time slices, but nothing would let the processor take
> a rest. The result of the processor running at 100% was that any new command
> (mouse click) would take a considerable delay before it would be
> processed -- the new command would have to wait for the next available time
> slice to appear, but this could take several seconds, and it was possible to
> have several mouse clicks stored in a queue and have them process in a
> batch.