Well, it's finally happend: my computer seems to have died completely. When I start it up, a screen saying that a recent hardware of software change has made something funky and it wants to know how I want to proceed. If I choose Safe Mode, the computer restarts right before it gets to the Windows XP loading screen, and if I choose Start Normally or Boot From Last Known Good Configuration it gets halfway throught the Windows loading screen before flashing a blue screen of death so quickly that it's impossible to read and then resetting.
Yesterday I used CCleaner to clean up the registry and I did make a backup of the registry, but I very stupidly just left it lying on my desktop. This is my primary guess as to what happened.
The Windows install disk won't recognize the version of Windows already on the machine, the only option it gives me when I go to Install Windows is to reformat the drive, nothing at all about writing it over a pre existing installation.
I ran check disk, and it got to 35% and then said that there were one or more unrecoverable errors on the disk. I checked the connections of the drive, and everthing is fine. Should I have any hope left?
I found this article which supposedly guides you through the process. The only problem is, once I get to the Windows Recovery Console, instead of asking me which partition I want or what my admin password is, it just goes to a C:\ prompt. I tried typing in my admin password there, but it just doesn't recognize the command. Can someone who's more experienced than me with this please give some advice? I really can't afford to lose all the documents on my computer.
EDIT: Ok, I just tried to boot up using a CD bootable version of Knoppix, and it was loading just danily until it got to this block of text:
scanning harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab... udevd-event[3728]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/eth3
device/driver' failed
After that, it just stopped loading.
Yesterday I used CCleaner to clean up the registry and I did make a backup of the registry, but I very stupidly just left it lying on my desktop. This is my primary guess as to what happened.
The Windows install disk won't recognize the version of Windows already on the machine, the only option it gives me when I go to Install Windows is to reformat the drive, nothing at all about writing it over a pre existing installation.
I ran check disk, and it got to 35% and then said that there were one or more unrecoverable errors on the disk. I checked the connections of the drive, and everthing is fine. Should I have any hope left?
I found this article which supposedly guides you through the process. The only problem is, once I get to the Windows Recovery Console, instead of asking me which partition I want or what my admin password is, it just goes to a C:\ prompt. I tried typing in my admin password there, but it just doesn't recognize the command. Can someone who's more experienced than me with this please give some advice? I really can't afford to lose all the documents on my computer.
EDIT: Ok, I just tried to boot up using a CD bootable version of Knoppix, and it was loading just danily until it got to this block of text:
scanning harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab... udevd-event[3728]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/eth3
device/driver' failed
After that, it just stopped loading.
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