Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: nibblit on July 31, 2008, 10:27:21 PM
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Ok, this happend right after i scheduled a disk check, it was going through it and it got stuck, it stayed in the same place and didnt mov so i restarted my computer and now it always says a disk check has been scheduled and it will not complete the check and when i try to skip it it says windows is now booting but stays on that screen and doesnt boot. i have tried safe mode and it will not load, it gets stuck like halfway through loading the drivers, i have also tried using my installation disk to repair it but to no avail. there were no recovery points set either so i dont know what to do.
specs: windows vista 2gbRAM intel core2duo extreame 1.8 GHz processor nivida geforce 9600 video card or something like that and i think i have a 320gig western digital HD
any help would be greatly appreciated, if there is a way to recover the data from the drive without having to boot or a way to like temp. boot it so i can backup stuff onto a portable hard drive and then i can reformat that would be great.
thankyou
~EDIT~
Just tried to repair startup again with boot disk and i got this error report and it said it cannot fix the problem:
Problem Signature:
Problem event name: startuprepairv2
problem signature 01: external media
problem signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000
problem signature 03: 3
problem signature 04: 131074
problem signature 05: badpatch
problem signature 06: corruptvolume
problem signature 07: 0
problem signature 08: 1
problem signature 09: chkdsk
problem signature 10: 0
os version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
locale id: 1033
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this is a desktop right?take the master hdd, hook it as a slave in another pc.transfer anything you want then you can install a fresh xp in it or whatever you want to do.
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Don't you think it would be nice to ask if they know how to or even have the resources to do such a task kuszmania9999?
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thanks guys, ill try that know, ive got like 5 other computers lol, its alright and there desktops sorry, forgot to add that. Ill give switching em a try....hope it works :S
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just tried it, my hard drive is a SATA drive not IDE and i dont know how to switch it to slave and lots of cables are blocking it so i grabed a spare IDE cable i had in another computer, pugged it in, grabbed the HD from the computer i took the IDE cable from (the hard drive has xp installed) plugged the IDE into one of the IDE ports on my mobo took the power supply from the dvd drive and plugged it into my Other HD, it is already set to master so i started my computer up, but it just gets stuck on the intel splash screen at the start, doesnt even load, maybe because i have two drives selected as master? if so how do i make the SATA one into a slave?
Im assuming its a sata drive cause ive only ever used IDE and my parents bought me this computer. The drive has a thick red cable going from mobo to drive and another wierd cable that plugs into these long thin pins on the drive.
~EDIT~ just tried all the jumper setings but to no avail :(
I do have a portable HD 500 gig, can i install an os onto that and maybe boot from it?
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on the harddrive there will be a table that shows everything from cable select to slave. its just a 2 prong pin where its position is, is how its mode is determined. i know not everyone has money to waste/use, but if i were in that situation i would buy a larger sata hard drive and use it as my drive that i back-up to. IDE is a thing of the past, its all sata now, so to me its worth it, if you can find a deal on something like a 250gig hd for $100. if money is an issue, see if a friend has a spare drive you can borrow, or just bring your harddrive with a sata cable and just do it at their place.