Got a prob. Mr Next Door;s pooter is playing up. Methinks the HD is on it’s way out. Take a good hour to boot, if you’re lucky. What I want to do is boot it from CD, so I can get at the C: drive.
Any ideas? taa.
Woodie said:
Got a prob. Mr Next Door;s pooter is playing up. Methinks the HD is on it’s way out. Take a good hour to boot, if you’re lucky. What I want to do is boot it from CD, so I can get at the C: drive.Any ideas? taa.
Lots of possibilities, depending on your skill levels and experience. If you’re comfortable with Linux, try a live CD. There are plenty available inline, and you can get full access to all the HDDs on the system.
If you want to stick with Windows, try Hiren’s boot CD; a swathe of useful Windows tools for fixing disks and broken systems, and free.
I’ll give HIren’s a go and see what happens.
The laptop has just popped up the desktop. After 1hr 20 mins…………….
ooooo errrrrrrr…… Hiren’s has loots of goodies on it. :)
Fanx Mr BTM. That CD had a mini WIn XP that allowed me to get at the hard drive. Got 97% of user stuff of it. The rest had drive errors.
Now…. what to do with the bung laptop……. . Will try some of them other utilities/goodies on that CD and see if the drive will “repair” the bad errors, and remain stable. Probably it won’t. Otherwise, new hard drive and rebuild, it looks like.
Again, thanks for your help.
You should run chkdsk (Check Disk). This will find and attempt to repair any bad sectors on the suspect drive.
Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt by tapping the key while the computer is starting. When you see the command prompt type chkdsk and then press the key. It might take a while for chkdsk to complete.
If chkdsk finds a lot of bad sectors then you should consider replacing the hard drive.
fsm said:
You should run chkdsk (Check Disk). This will find and attempt to repair any bad sectors on the suspect drive.Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt by tapping the key while the computer is starting. When you see the command prompt type chkdsk and then press the key. It might take a while for chkdsk to complete.
If chkdsk finds a lot of bad sectors then you should consider replacing the hard drive.
Hmmm, this forum doesn’t like the use of the square bracket. It should have looked more like this…
Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt by tapping the F8 key while the computer is starting. When you see the command prompt type chkdsk and then press the Enter key. It might take a while for chkdsk to complete.
fsm said:
You should run chkdsk (Check Disk). This will find and attempt to repair any bad sectors on the suspect drive.Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt by tapping the key while the computer is starting. When you see the command prompt type chkdsk and then press the key. It might take a while for chkdsk to complete.
If chkdsk finds a lot of bad sectors then you should consider replacing the hard drive.
The thing is, FSM, the thing won’t boot. Takes about 45 min to an hour to get as far as desktop. Sits at Windows logo for 1/2 hr. Same when trying to go into safe mode or any other mode. That’s why the mini WIn XP on that CD was so useful. I can run a chkdsk from the mini WIn XP, but have yet run one with “repair”, Not until I’d got all the data/user files off it. Just in case it repaired it good and proper, and ended up with nothing..
Woodie said:
fsm said:
You should run chkdsk (Check Disk). This will find and attempt to repair any bad sectors on the suspect drive.Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt by tapping the key while the computer is starting. When you see the command prompt type chkdsk and then press the key. It might take a while for chkdsk to complete.
If chkdsk finds a lot of bad sectors then you should consider replacing the hard drive.
The thing is, FSM, the thing won’t boot. Takes about 45 min to an hour to get as far as desktop. Sits at Windows logo for 1/2 hr. Same when trying to go into safe mode or any other mode. That’s why the mini WIn XP on that CD was so useful. I can run a chkdsk from the mini WIn XP, but have yet run one with “repair”, Not until I’d got all the data/user files off it. Just in case it repaired it good and proper, and ended up with nothing..
A temporary fix that works for me is to press the reset button (sited next to the power button). If it takes me more than about 2 minutes to get to desktop I press the reset button and then at the black screen choose “start windows normally”. The opening to desktop then takes much less time.
You might also try running SFC.
You’ll need to run as an admin then at the command prompt it should be: SFC /SCANNOW.
Wait another week and upgrade to the free Windows 10.
Well, you are assuming there that they already register their Win 7 copy for the Win 10 upgrade. Plus it has to download so you need to have the PC running (unless it is going to be released on a CD as well).
Whilst home recovering i just built myself a new PC and put Win 7 OEM on it. I really did like XP but needed to have the office computer ready for upgrading, so…..