Cloned HDD boot loop now

[i2omani]

Howdy folks,
I had a bad WD HDD 500GB , it had a bad sector so i cloned it to another good HDD WD 640GB. the new cloned HDD worked from the first boot and everything was working correctly , but what you know i don't know why i decided to do Windows repair
since then it will not boot at all , i keep seeing windows xp pro and prog. bar scroll several times then it reboots

I tried to fixmbr, cfgboot,fixboot and chkdsk /p /r but no luck.

am opened to suggestion please

thanks in advance

 

[TLE]

Can't you reclone the drive and not perform a repair this time?

 

[ZenTree]

reclone sounds good, if not then you need to post with the BSOD details so we can get more info.

 

[i2omani]

reclone sounds good, if not then you need to post with the BSOD details so we can get more info.

how can i get BSOD and i can't even get to safe mode! can you please advice me?

thank you so much

 

[MobileTechie]

Turn off automatic restart so you can see the BSOD.

 

[i2omani]

Can't you reclone the drive and not perform a repair this time?

i used parmagic CD while both HDD were connected to my pc , so i am pretty sure i messed that one up too. i don't know what i was thinking, i wanted to fix it quick and because i didn't think about it look where i am now

so ****** at myself now

 

[TLE]

Ok is the old drive still working? Yes - No

If it is, take an image of the new hard drive as it currently is (just in case), format it, and then re-clone the drive.

or...

Press F8 after POST and select disable automatic restart on system failure. This will then display the BSOD for you to write down.

 

[thebige]

Or if you are super slick you can take a picture of the screen and email it to yourself then post it here. Old school screenshot

 

[i2omani]

Ok is the old drive still working? Yes - No

If it is, take an image of the new hard drive as it currently is (just in case), format it, and then re-clone the drive.

or...

Press F8 after POST and select disable automatic restart on system failure. This will then display the BSOD for you to write down.

old hdd is not bootable as well now, but didn't lose my data.
will come back with BSOD info.

thank you

 

[Knightsman]

Try another repair install and see if it fixes the problem.

 

[i2omani]

old hdd is not bootable as well now, but didn't lose my data.
will come back with BSOD info.

thank you

ok question i don't need to set "disable restart on error" everytime? do i? that why i was asking to show me how to get the bsod info...errrrrr this issue make me see how stupid i am. anyways here is the bsod "0x000000CE(0xB71C8410,0X00000008,0XB71C8410,0X00000000) nv4_mini.sys
Driver_unload_without_canceling_pending_operation.

its my nivida card...but how can i uninstall it the driver and i can't login . time to flip some Live cds which one?

any suggestions are welcomed.

p.s: thank you for the tip on the bsod....thu it made me feel so dumb and stupid hahhahahahahahah
thank in advance again

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

I would imagine you should be able to use any boot disk that allows you to see and edit the files on your OS drive. Then just delete the file and reboot. Windows should use a generic driver to get you back up so you can install new drivers from nvidia.

 

[i2omani]

I would imagine you should be able to use any boot disk that allows you to see and edit the files on your OS drive. Then just delete the file and reboot. Windows should use a generic driver to get you back up so you can install new drivers from nvidia.

Thats what i did, i actually renamed the file vn4_mini.sys to .old and booted, now it doing the install , but i remember the last time i only did repair. will see how this will work out, Hopefully i will be able to re-clone old hardisk again