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| Thread ID: 40726 | 2003-12-16 00:18:00 | PC wont boot (even in safe mode!) | cold_fu5ion (3438) | Press F1 |
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| 200934 | 2003-12-16 00:18:00 | Hi all, This is a little strange. I was using my pc to copy a cd and when it finished i couldnt move my mouse (this has happend before, I think that I havent turend wake usb devices on). So I restarted and windows was loading, it got to the screen that says "starting windows" with that win 2000 logo and then it went to a black background with a white border and agin the windows logo. The screen said "checking file system on D. file system is NTFS". It ran a check (it has did this a few months ago). Then it said wait for your pc to restart. So I did. When it restarted windows went to the same screen again, but this time it checked drive c's (fat) file system. This is where problems start. The disk starts to be scaned and it says 'so many sectors in c' and then it frezes and what looks like a win 2k error message (blue screen) flashes (way to fast to read) and my pc reatarts. If I cancel the scan before it starts then the same thing happens! So I tried to boot into safe mode but when it gets to the satrting windows screen it freezes and restarts. The same thing happens if I try to load the last known good configuration. Do I have to reinstall windows?? Can I do this without losing data?? (there is no important data on c (2 gig) except boot records!) and windows is installed on D. Geez I hate windows! |
cold_fu5ion (3438) | ||
| 200935 | 2003-12-16 01:07:00 | Boot from the Win2k cd and choose the repair option and see if that works first. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 200936 | 2003-12-16 01:07:00 | Maybe a reinstall will solve the problem. Equally a repair may resolve as well. Possibly due to disk geometry corruption also. View the drive in another machine running an NT operating system. Since you hate windows, consider DOS, linux, purchase a mac and an abacus as alternatives. Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool -- shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple -- teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep -- wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise -- follow him! - Lady Burton (wife of Sir Richard Francis Burton), given as an Arabian proverb |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 200937 | 2003-12-16 04:34:00 | Good to see you're back Merlin :-) Congrats on the 500 mark too...! A repair _should_ fix it, but if the HDD is in need of a Scandisk, it may pay to get your hands on a Bootable Linux Distro (almost any should do) and use a Linux Distro to run fsck.msdos (File-System ChecK) and see what that turns up. Ive never had a Cold Reset in Linux and so Ive subsequently never had to use fsck manually, but run: fsck.msdos --help and that should help :-) Cheers Chill. |
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