This Computers just been acting wierd since I ran a system restore last week.
which explains why im posting again in 3 hours.
ok heres what happened.
I was away from the cpu, norton was running a full system scan for the first time. I glance at it and see black screen with letters.
walk over, it says
Invalid System Disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key.
By pressing the space bar this came up
Reboot and select proper device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and pressy a key.
Ive seen this message before and after the restore^
I mannualy turned it off (held power button)
Loads right before boot to welcome screen then re-boots.
Try 2
Asked me which configuration I would like to use, I picked Last Known Good Configuration.
Loads Just Fine
Logs on in about 17 seconds from welcome screen
While loading everything on desktop, taskbar whatever it says system error and it read- Unknown Hard Error.
-Mannual Shut Down
Try 3
-Seems to load fine.
-Welcome Screen
2007-01-13 06:29:19 · 7 answers · asked by Behappystupi 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
-Extended-
-Logs in in about 16 seconds
-Taskbar Loads Faster
-Here I am.
2007-01-13 06:29:55 · update #1
i didnt restore it to a point, i restored it to factory settings.
2007-01-13 06:36:02 · update #2
I never did get to install SP2 because Id always get the Blue Screen Of Death during setup.
2007-01-13 06:36:41 · update #3
I tried backing up, everytime I do so it comes to the Blue Screen
2007-01-13 06:40:58 · update #4
Im trying what Shellback said.
be back in 20
2007-01-13 06:46:03 · update #5
Seems to be a software issue. I think when you did your norton scan, you could have been infected with a virus. When the norton removed the virus, it also corrupted some of your system files.
Try going to safe mode to back up your data and then reformat your hard drive.
Or you can do a system restore. However, I would rather start fresh by reinstalling windows.
If you can give me the blue screen with the STOP code at the button, I can probably give you more information.
2007-01-13 06:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by White Shooting Star of HK 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
You will need to run a third party scan-disk program outside of Windows to see what is up with your hard drive. It sounds to me like your hard drive is dieing but you need to know for sure and a third party program like Fix-It or Norton utilities will scan-disk your computer before loading Windows. You must go to your computers BIOS and set it up to run your CDROM first during your computers start-up. Put in the Fit-It/Norton CD and start your computer. The program will load and select to scandisk your hard drive. From there the utility program will tell you either the good or bad news. Do not ignore a bad or failing hard drive as one day you will lose everything, just right out of nowhere. Hope I helped.
Edit update: If what I said is your problem, then you need to do this, slave the old hard drive and master your new one. The reason for this is, your bad hard drive may work enough for you to grab your important files before it dies. Do not assume that just because it works well enough to grab files that it is still ok. Sometimes hard drives will still work enough to transfer important files but do not have what it takes to boot into an operating system. I have been doing this with hard drives that are going bad for years and about 70% of the time it works. Good Luck
2007-01-13 14:42:24 · answer #2 · answered by Shellback 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you just restored it to factory settings, sounds like you just restored it to the way it was when you bought it? If you didn't backup your data, and can now do so - get it done. You may have a bad sector on your hard drive... been there, done that. After I reformatted the entire hard drive, it worked fine for about a year. But the sector error eventually crashed my entire system. Luckily it was a 2nd computer for my kid.
2007-01-13 14:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by CricketB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.... my choice would be to save what is worth and format the windows partition and then make a clean windows install. If you still get some errors along the same lines then you should suspect something is wrong with your hard drive - physically wrong. Backup and get a new one.
2007-01-13 14:39:09 · answer #4 · answered by Khali 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should try restoring the computer to an earlier time, since all this started at the current restore point.
2007-01-13 14:35:29 · answer #5 · answered by Casey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard drive error? Power Surge? Windows sucks? I would back up EVERYTHING while you can, and reformat and reinstall just to be safe.
2007-01-13 14:33:55 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physically damaged your hdd, back up all data. resize your partion of hdd, install Windows ME and run for a day, then upgrade it with Windows XP
2007-01-13 14:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by rxet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋