I'm having an issue with my compaq presario desktop when i boot into windows it hangs just before the windows log on screen and so far i have been unable to boot the comp into safe mode any help figuring out the problem would be appreciated
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Jump to PostIfd you canuse some other boot media such as a liux type startup disk then the place to look is in the windows file where there are two files that may help.
Boot.ini tells the machine what it should do
boot.log (or similiar name gives a record of what it …
Jump to PostOh dear. All that for just $60... bargain. Quoting from the HDDRegenerator site:
"Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains not readable.. information. As a result .. you may have difficulties to read and copy data from your disk, your operating system becomes unstable and finally …
Jump to PostIf you saw chkdsk run without any action from you then it likely means the session manager [via autochk] detected a disk had not been shut down correctly.
Because you have not logged on yet [or seen the Welcome screen] the registry has not been updated yet to reflect a …
Jump to PostI think a sector is first picked as being bad when it is shown as containing data, but that data is unreadable or in disagreement with the file table. The data may be recoverable [an advantage of NTFS], it may not.... but if writing zeroes to that sector is possible …
Jump to PostYou know that doing that will cause you to lost all your data unless you have back it up.
He can back it up after he change his HDD and connect the faulty HDD and copy files that's still readable...
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