[shroomo]

Hey guys,

I've turned the computer on today and windows isn't booting. It says boot from disc, insert boot disk.... so I put the windows cd in the drive and after it takes its sweet time loading a blue screen that says 'install windows' or 'reconfigure' or exit. I dont know what to do from this point. I can get into the bios and bits at the beggining of startup but I dont know what to do in thier either! Any help appreciated as my girlfriend WILL kill me if it's not working by later!

It's windows XP home and up till today never had bootup probs. Cheers in advance!

Kris

[computeruler]

i dont even want to no why she will kill you if its not working sounds like your windows installation is corrupt click on install windows

[Dave Hybrid]

Run the CD again and select the SECOND repair option, all data will stay intact and it will overwrite any bad files.

[Desertfish]

Originally Posted by shroomo Any help appreciated as my girlfriend WILL kill me if it's not working by later!

He didn't say how much later... Maybe we're already too late...

Cheers:
Chris

[shroomo]

Thanks for the help guys, I think the problem is my hard-drive. It seems as though the C drive has dissapeared. The only drives it can find are A drive (floppy disk, which I dont actually have!) and Z drive.... never heard of Z drive before! it's only got 17 files on it though. How would you diagnose a broken HDD and do you think I will loose all the stuff on the C drive? Getting worried now, I've just lost my job and my CV and everything are on the HDD! WHY GOD WHY!!!

Thanks again,
a very unlucky Kris!

[computeruler]

ok so your hard drive is peobably broken then if it cant find it just make shure its pluged in and stuff

[Dave Hybrid]

Does the drive show up in the BIOS or Post screens?

If not it is basically toast.

[kanoakavirus]

Have you tried setting it to recover any data yet? like setting it to slave and sticking it in another pc?