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| Thread ID: 85928 | 2007-12-27 12:58:00 | Computer Beeps when turned on and won't boot | spaceman8815 (4112) | Press F1 |
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| 625031 | 2007-12-28 20:54:00 | I can access the floppy, cd, and hard drive from the program. Thats Usually a good sign, if the board was totally knackered none of the above would happen. Lets recap - The PC boots fine and runs from the Knoppix CD. Does the PC still Beep when booting from the HD? The PC will boot- but as you mentioned When it looks for the hard drives boot record the result is ok and then go no further. That sounds like there has possibly been failed sectors on the HD. To test this - download This Program (www.tomdownload.com) It will look on your drive and detrect any bad sectors, it is a trial version and will only repair 1 sector at a time per run, but at least it will tell you if the drives knackered or not. Being on the boot sectors, it should locate anything fast. Its an ISO file, so burn as per the Knoppix CD, and boot from it. Let me know what the results are. There is one more program I'm looking for, got the link someplace :D this may fix the boot problem. I'll look back again soon. Breakfast time :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 625032 | 2007-12-28 23:45:00 | Okay - once you have run that HD recovery program and told it to repair any thing it finds, thats if it does find anything, reboot the PC, depending on what has happened & what if any sectors were damaged, Windows may suddenly wake up and auto run the recovery console and fix the boot files. If it doesn't and nothing has changed, since you dont have the XP CD down load This here (www.webtree.ca) Its a direct download so should automatically start downloading. Unzip the ISO image and burn it to CD with your image burner. It is the startup, section of a Windows XP CD, it wont load windows, but it will allow you into the recovery part to hopefully fix it. Boot from the CD, ( there will flash across the bottom of the screen "press any key to boot from CD" press any key) when you get to the screen asking what to do, select " To Repair Windows Using the recovery Console Press R " ---- Press R. You should see C:\windows Press 1 to boot into this. the administrator password pops up simply press Enter, this should then jump to C:\windows. Type in chkdsk /r (Note space between k /r) press Enter. This will go through and check your windows file system, hopefully you will see some files being found and windows repairing them. Once completed ( and it may take a while) to reboot type in EXIT the PC will reboot, and hopefully into your desktop. If it doesn't then reload the CD, go through the whole process untill you get to C:\Windows then type in fixboot type in Y to allow, reboot the PC. Let me know what has happened after this. There is more;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 625033 | 2007-12-29 00:17:00 | Thats Usually a good sign, if the board was totally knackered none of the above would happen. Lets recap - The PC boots fine and runs from the Knoppix CD. Does the PC still Beep when booting from the HD? The PC will boot- but as you mentioned That sounds like there has possibly been failed sectors on the HD. To test this - download This Program (www.tomdownload.com) It will look on your drive and detrect any bad sectors, it is a trial version and will only repair 1 sector at a time per run, but at least it will tell you if the drives knackered or not. Being on the boot sectors, it should locate anything fast. Its an ISO file, so burn as per the Knoppix CD, and boot from it. Let me know what the results are. There is one more program I'm looking for, got the link someplace :D this may fix the boot problem. I'll look back again soon. Breakfast time :) When i try to create a bootable CD form the program you gave it gives me an error message 'unable to read file! Application terminated' and it exits out of the program. Is this a compatibility problem as my laptop is windows vista home premium. |
spaceman8815 (4112) | ||
| 625034 | 2007-12-29 00:55:00 | Slight opps Maybe (To early with no food :D ) the link I gave was to an older version, I have just installed the latest on one of my Vista PC's no worries. Its an actual Install file not a ISO - Sorry about that, I got it ages ago - My mistake. New Download Program (www.dposoft.net), if for some reason it wont install on your Vista PC, right click the exe file, Properties/ Compatitably mode/ Select Windows XP SP2 / Apply/OK, - should install OK though - then open program as seen Here (www.imagef1.net.nz) click the left button to create a bootable CD. You can skip this whole process if you want, but I wouldn't, as this will tell you if your drive is faulty, where as the windows recovery Console (Other Post) prob wont. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 625035 | 2007-12-29 02:53:00 | Finally got it working, I had to uninstall the program (the latest version) then install it under compatibility mode of win xp sp2 then i had to tell the installed program to run under win xp sp2 before it would work. I have it currently scanning the descktop computer which looks like it may take a while. | spaceman8815 (4112) | ||
| 625036 | 2007-12-29 04:23:00 | If its scanning the PC, and YES it does take a while, it should find any damaged sectors If there are any within the first 30 minutes, its the Boot sectors that need to be looked at mainly. You can stop it once its gone past about 1/4 way through, are there any damaged sectors at the start ? Once stopped/completed you can run the CD that will allow you to boot into the Recovery Console and run chkdsk as per the instructions above. Post 32 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 625037 | 2007-12-29 05:52:00 | If its scanning the PC, and YES it does take a while, it should find any damaged sectors If there are any within the first 30 minutes, its the Boot sectors that need to be looked at mainly. You can stop it once its gone past about 1/4 way through, are there any damaged sectors at the start ? Once stopped/completed you can run the CD that will allow you to boot into the Recovery Console and run chkdsk as per the instructions above. Post 32 Its now over a 1/4 finished and it has not found any bad sectors, will stop it now and run the other program. |
spaceman8815 (4112) | ||
| 625038 | 2007-12-29 06:04:00 | Okay | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 625039 | 2007-12-29 07:48:00 | After the chkdsk it said it found and fixed one or more problems so i rebooted but still it did not work. so i did the fixboot and rebooted and still it made no difference. What can i try next? | spaceman8815 (4112) | ||
| 625040 | 2007-12-29 08:26:00 | What happened after running chkdsk /r & fixboot, , what stage did it get to. Post back each step - eg: any Beeps, Error messages -every thing |
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