I have a pentium III 600 desk top computer with Windows XP OS. It's been running good but last night while it was on screen saver's mode monitor went black and I partly read a message that a certain file was corrupted and cannot display. When I restart the computer it now asks for a bootable disk. I dont have that. I dont have also the XP installer. Is there a way to for me to fix the problem like booting it to a safe mode?
2007-05-29 14:03:57 · 4 answers · asked by Karl 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It looks like your hard drive's boot sector is damaged and there is no way to boot but through an installer CD. Your hard drive might be about to die on you.
Repair Win XP using the XP CD. Then back up your important files. Be ready to replace your hard drive and just use the old one as slave drive.
2007-05-29 15:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need a boot disk. Safe mode still relies on the boot sectors of the hard drive and may rely on whatever file the system says is corrupted.
Doing a complete power-off and restarting after 10-20 seconds may clear out a corrupted memory or drive-cached image of a file, but this is in no way guaranteed. If you've been doing hot boots (reset button only), then you need to try it.
Just the same, I'd start looking for a boot disk or an XP CD-ROM if I were you.
2007-05-29 14:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Brook M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First verify you have no CD inserted, and no usb flash drives plugged in. This regularly makes the gadget attempt as nicely from a non bootable disk. It then is going to the community card to make certain if there is an area server to load from. /if there are actually not any disks related, it relatively is in all probability your complicated stress has failed. this could desire you to interchange it. you're able to additionally could desire to have restoration disks to place in the working device. for this reason those machines propose you to create a restoration disk set once you first use them, except they're presented with a restoration disk. maximum Toshiba do incorporate disks. or you're able to purchase a collection from Toshiba for the fee of media and posting.
2016-12-12 05:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unplu your computer from te wall for 60 secs. then plug back in...this always works for me. thanks...
2007-05-29 14:08:32 · answer #4 · answered by *~AARON~* 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋