Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 11:14:05 12/28/04
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On December 28, 2004 at 13:23:30, William Penn wrote: >On December 27, 2004 at 18:22:29, Stephen Ham wrote: >>But now, I can't even boot up the computer to push the System Restore button! >>Also, my hard-drive is only about 2-months old, since the previous hard-drive >>crashed due to a hardware failure. > >Can you boot into "Safe" mode? The method to get into Safe mode varies from >computer to computer. On mine if I press F8 during the bootup process, it offers >me various options including booting into Safe mode. On yours it may be a >different key. If you can boot into Safe mode, I believe you can run the Windows >XP System Restore operation from there. That assumes you had the System Restore >operation active so that a prior restore point is available. > >Occasionally System Restore refuses to do a restoration. In that case I've had >luck if I turn it off for the extraneous drives, and just leave it active on the >main boot drive (usually C). After doing so, try it again and it may work to >restore the C drive. > >There are some other useful things to try too if you can get into Safe mode. >Assuming you're running Windows XP(?), run the following command in a Run box >(Start>Run): > sfc /scannow >That will restore any damaged protected windows system files. > >You may also want to run a CHKDSK to fix hard drive/file damage. Enter the >following into a CMD window to see the options available: > CHKDSK /? > >If that doesn't work, I believe you should probably still be able to recover the >computer unless there is a hardware failure. For example: turn on the computer, >open the CD drawer, insert your op system/recovery CD or system tools CD, then >turn the computer off/on again. I believe that should work in almost all cases. > >WP Dear WP, Thanks for the helpful input. I've tried rebooting about 30X since the crash. On one boot, it did indeed default to a screen that offered me the option to boot up in SAFE mode. I elected that, and got in, and ran my McAfee anti-virus software and my spyware and adware softwares. Being ignorant of other things to do next, I then tried to reboot. But ever since, I get an immediate loud "alarm-like" noise, which announces a Bios error and the claim that something is in my "A" drive. I've downloaded onto a floppy disc a boot-up command for my Windows XP, so I'll try that, and your other suggestions tonight. Thanks again, WP! All the best, Stephen
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