My laptop can't load Operating system?

Question

My dell laptop posts to bio successfully and can boot widows OS. However, it stops or inactive after sometimes. The screen show windows is loading but it never load even if I wait for the whole day. What could be wrong? I contacted the manufacturing company but they want money from me.

Answer 1

If you have a windows installation disk, you can boot from it and then run a repair install

Answer 2

If I understand, you can get into BIOS. Check to see if BIOS see all your RAM. I not real sure, but, if one of your RAM not plugged in well you may not have enough memory to install. The other two things I think of is Partitions on the Hard Drive may be causing a problem and you need to Reformat and adjust the Partition (Not think that it, but, never know) Then the last thing I thinking is the Hard Drive may be Corrupted and for some reason the install freezes, normally it should say the Hard Drive is corrupted. This all I can think of off hand.

Answer 3

Per other answers, rebooting from your CD and repairing/reinstalling windows may do the trick.

There may be other problems, such as a dying hard drive or other system failure. If you are able to get your system up and running, I would do a backup ASAP! You may be on borrowed time.

Answer 4

there is something wrong you will need to ghost your computer but you will lose every thing that is on it


Here is how when booting up before XP starts there should be a screen that says dell.com when it goes up hit Ctrl F12 or F11 forgot and then go a head and click restore default settings and i should work

Answer 5

Try this:

After restarting your computer, starting tapping the F8 key once a while, till you get to the boot menu. Select "Last Good Known...." then hit Enter.

Answer 6

try starting your pc with the Windows CD in it. And try the repair function. If that doesn't work, reinstall windows.