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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: 3deizzie on May 03, 2007, 09:49:29 PM

Title: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: 3deizzie on May 03, 2007, 09:49:29 PM

when i turn pc on it goes to DOS screen and says:drive c has no label  volume serial number 1d36-11eb.  I dont know how to remedy this.   Any help is greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: unlovedwarrior on May 03, 2007, 09:58:04 PM

more info like operating system? protections when it started doing this what changes u made before this started happening software hardware etc and can you go into safe mode??

rapidly tap f8 before windows loads

try going into normal mode that way too

unlovedwarrior

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: contrex on May 04, 2007, 01:04:43 AM

It sounds like it is booting into DOS. Is this a computer you have just received or have you had it for a while?

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: kartook on May 04, 2007, 01:16:54 AM

Try from safe mode then enter normal mode

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: GX1_Man on May 04, 2007, 03:55:46 AM

Quote from: 3deizzie on May 03, 2007, 09:49:29 PM

when i turn pc on it goes to DOS screen and says:drive c has no label  volume serial number 1d36-11eb.  I dont know how to remedy this.   Any help is greatly appreciated.

See below.

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: 3deizzie on May 04, 2007, 04:28:52 AM

Yep just got it.  I fear it may be a lemon deal.  and I hate lemonade

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: 3deizzie on May 04, 2007, 04:30:22 AM

I tried that.  Windows bypassed startup

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: contrex on May 04, 2007, 04:36:27 AM

Mystery solved! You got a computer without Windows on it, is all. The previous owner did the right thing. Dealers in used computers almost always do this. When selling a used computer, the correct legal thing is to remove all software which is not licensed to the new owner. This is the normal, legal, right thing to do when selling a used computer. The seller did nothing at all wrong. You have to buy Windows.

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: kartook on May 04, 2007, 04:44:21 AM

okie try with any LIVe linux CD  boot and try

or install Windows opration systems in this HDD and check

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: Zylstra on May 04, 2007, 02:21:33 PM

(Hmm, I feel like exploding)

Type the following

Label
(and press ENTER)

Problem solved!

kartook, what good would that do?
The computer is working, just no GUI installed

Title: Re: Windows will not start goes to command prompt
Post by: contrex on May 05, 2007, 01:34:14 AM

Sometimes people feel such a strong need to post an answer, even if they don't know the right one, that they post the answer to a different problem that the questioner does not actually have.