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8th Dec 2008, 12:50
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| hi, my son brought me his pc to see if i could fix it, he dosn't know the model or anything,he dosn't have the paperwork,its a packard bell,about 2 yrs old.my other son tryed to get rid of the password screen and altered somthing then it wouldn't let us on it,i looked on pb site and i managed to reload it useing F11,it was great worked perfectly. then i rebooted and that was it the lights were on but it wouldnt boot up to windows,the drives are still there i can see them when i put another hd in to try it but even with the new drive in i can't get windows up, is there any other way of booting up windows, i will be eternaly grateful for any help. regards jackie |
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#2
8th Dec 2008, 12:56
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| You might have put the new hard drive on master with another hard drive, make sure the newer drive is set to slave or Drive Select and that should be ok. Otherwise your computer may not have a good enough power supply. |
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8th Dec 2008, 13:03
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| i tryed it as slave and as master but no luck, all the lights are on,but just won't go to windows |
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8th Dec 2008, 15:12
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| is there some way of getting a reload without F11. or is there another way of getting to F11 on a packard bell imedia |
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9th Dec 2008, 03:51
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| Not certain without knowing the model no., but often the files required for Recovery are on a hidden partition on the Hard Drive, so if you change the Hard Drive, the files are not available.
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9th Dec 2008, 04:35
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| now its coming up with varifying DMI pool Data ......update success. then boot from cd boot from cd ntlor is missing press ctrl + alt+del to restart can't type anything same thing happens oer and over again when u reboot can't get into safe mode, have put original hd back in can't get to do F11 |
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9th Dec 2008, 04:51
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| Without a Windows Installation CD, you will most likely not be able to solve this (as mentioned above). There seems to be problems with your old Hard Drive. The message "ntldr is missing", indicates data loss/corruption on the drive, which could be software or hardware related. If you can borrow a Windows CD from somewhere, we might be able to use the Recovery Console in Windows to repair it, but if the Hard Drive has a hardware fault, this will not work and you will need to put a new drive in and do a fresh installation of Windows from a genuine Windows Installation Disk. |
