Unable To Boot?
Apr 28, 2010
First off, thank you for reading and also thanks in advance for any advice. I dl a free trial of a program called SpeedyPC, which found numerous registry errors. I tried to dl a free full version from a random website ( I know, bad idea) so I could resolve the registry errors. As soon as I ran this executable file, my screen went blank and the system restarted, but did not go past the windows xp screen.I shut down for a while and now the system will not boot up at all. The monitor simply gives a "no signal" message and goes blank.
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Jan 16, 2007
Here goes ;yesterday after having used the computer for a while , i rebooted the computer and all i got was a blank screen....no message or logo about windows starting up...i tried several times to no avail.
I googled with another machine and i tried to make an XP boot disk from the XP dvd , copying the needed files on a linux box but my boot disk was no help , just got the message that this was not a bootable disk.
I also tried to boot up from the XP dvd but it froze at the part that says thad the install disk is checking my computer's configuration or such , my system is in the french language .
I could access the disk from linux on my second hard drive and i boot into linux with a floppy , never touched the MBR.
Lilo is on that floppy and windows is the other option but it would not boot from that either.
I gave up after a while , shut down the computer.
Just for the hell of it i gave it a go this morning and the *<"xx...started.
I proceeded to make a boot disk (do not know if it will work though)
The reason i posted is it will probably happen again and the fact that it would not boot even from the XP dvd ( legit , original ) is not very reassuring could it be a bad sector of the hard drive ? Has anyone had that experience before ?
This is Win XP Home Edition on AMD Sempron 2300 , 512mg Ram 80g Maxtor.
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Apr 27, 2007
I was running windows XP. My hard-drive isnt totally screwed because I just formatted it and it works fine.
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I had an istallation of win 2000 which i couldn't boot to.
It was freezing at the windows screen ( after the bios loading and the f8 option to choose ).
I tried to boot
1. from the emergency repair disk failed
2. from the original win 2000 Cd succeded but when reboot from the HD failed.
I also tried the repair option but wasnt able to boot from the HD.
At a point wasn't able to boot anymore neither from the win 2000 CD.
I decided to install win 2000 at the same HD without making a new partition and now i have win2000 at C:WINNT1 ( the new ) and C:WINNT ( the old )
The file systen is NTFS.
Now i can boot to the second installation.
Is there a way i could transfer or merge the old installation to the new one ?
My nightmare is to do all the programm installations from scratch ,configurate the varius programms and so on.
I'd like to repair the first installation of win 2000 and after that i can boot to it , delete the second one.
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