Computer Refuses to get past windows screen

[NikolaeVarius]

Long Story Short. I tried to turn on my computer, it wouldn't get past Windows Boot Screen. I restart, same thing. I left it on for a while on the boot screen, and all it did was reboot. I tried to get into safe mode, but it keeps freezing and rebooting at "mud.sys"/"mup.sys" (I don't remember which, I'm at work now), same thing with sfae mode command line, and command mode with networking.

I tried to repair my partitions using my XP cd, but the repair console froze while checking on my E drive, which is probably the problem. However, thats where all my programs are, so I am hesitant to delete its partition.

This has actually occured once before, but at that time, the computer somehow started up chkdsk and everything worked fine after that.

Anyone know what is happening and how to fix it? I think the E drive might be dying, but it was working prefectly fine when I shut down before this happened. Also, is there a way to froce chkdsk to run without safe mode?

 

[robisbell]

if you could provide some info about the system, I would appreciate it.

Motherboard Manufacturer with Model and BIOS Revision:
CPU Manufacturer and Model:
RAM Manufacturer and Model:
PSU Manufacturer and Model:
HDD(s): Manufacturer and Model:

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Sorry, I'll get more info when I get home, but this is what I know.


Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-K8NS PRO Socket 754
CPU- AMD 64 Athlon 3200+
RAM- Kingston 512 stick
PSU- Thermaltake 430 Watt
HDD- A new 80 Gigbyte Seagate as primary, a 1 year old 200 gigabyte Seagate HDD, And one 4 year old 120 Gigabyte Seagate (This is the one that is probably the problem).

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Bump

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Okay, I think I've isolated the problem.

I got chkdsk working and I checked every disk except my 120 gigabyte drive. Apparently, the partition on it is corrupt. This leads to my next question

Is there a way to save the partition? Its my programs drive so If I lose it, its a bit of a problem.

 

[zetsway]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Okay, I think I've isolated the problem.

I got chkdsk working and I checked every disk except my 120 gigabyte drive. Apparently, the partition on it is corrupt. This leads to my next question

Is there a way to save the partition? Its my programs drive so If I lose it, its a bit of a problem.

Yup,

How many drives do you have? If you have just one do you have an external harddrive?
Or do you have a flash disk or jump drive?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: zetsway

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Okay, I think I've isolated the problem.

I got chkdsk working and I checked every disk except my 120 gigabyte drive. Apparently, the partition on it is corrupt. This leads to my next question

Is there a way to save the partition? Its my programs drive so If I lose it, its a bit of a problem.

Yup,

How many drives do you have? If you have just one do you have an external harddrive?
Or do you have a flash disk or jump drive?

I have a 80 Gig drive, a 120 gig drive (My programs), and a 200 gig drive (Data). These are al internal. I have a 2 gig flash drive if thats helpful.

 

[zetsway]

Yes very helpful. If you don't mind reinstalling then I would unplug the IDE cable from the harddrive. Then reinstall.

If you have a second PC then download BartPE.

If you have any data on the drive you want to get off and copy it to the other drive, then you will want to use BartPE.

I would Google. With that CD you should be able to run chkdsk. You may also look into Ultimate Boot CD. I think that?s the name. Google that as well. It?s very easy to make and you may want to keep it for later use.

Post back if it doesn?t or does help. I can think of a few other suggestions if you?re interested.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: zetsway
Yes very helpful. If you don't mind reinstalling then I would unplug the IDE cable from the harddrive. Then reinstall.

If you have a second PC then download BartPE.

If you have any data on the drive you want to get off and copy it to the other drive, then you will want to use BartPE.

I would Google. With that CD you should be able to run chkdsk. You may also look into Ultimate Boot CD. I think that?s the name. Google that as well. It?s very easy to make and you may want to keep it for later use.

Post back if it doesn?t or does help. I can think of a few other suggestions if you?re interested.

Thats for the suggestiopns.

However, I've been trying to avoid reinstalling anything. I don't really have too much time to just sit there and reinstall things >.>

Is there anyway I can just fix the partition?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Okay, sorry for another double post.

I used bart PE, and within it, apparently, my E drive is corrupt, and so nothing works on it at all. I thought it might be completley dead, but windows setup still reads it, however, it reads it as completely empty.... And also, I have 2 partitions on that drive, and the second one works fine.

Now I'm just stuck

Is there a way to use system recovery or something from BartPE? I'm wondernig if that can get me back..assuming I didn't disable it

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Bump

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Bump Again with an Update- My computer can get into the normal desktop fine, expce twithout any programs. Would this hep with somehow recovering data from the partition or repairing the partition?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Bump?.. Oh comon, anyone?

 

[robisbell]

wipe out the partitions and rebuild them and reload.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: robisbell
wipe out the partitions and rebuild them and reload.

Is there a way I can avoid that?... Cause I have a couple of files I want to save, and I'm want to be sure there is a way to save them without using money.

 

[robisbell]

well, boot with the windows cd access the HDD and copy what you need off then wiped the partitions and reload.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: robisbell
well, boot with the windows cd access the HDD and copy what you need off then wiped the partitions and reload.

I can't. It won't let me access it. That was the entire point of me asking how to recover the partition

 

[robisbell]

so, how big is the drive and how many partitions?

 

[Fardringle]

Try running GetDataBack on the drive to see what it says about the files on the partition. You will probably still have to reinstall some programs, but if the drive is still functioning at all you should be able to recover a good portion of the files.

 

[robisbell]

"Please note: Installing HDHost or any other programs on the drive you want to recover from, can cause data on that drive to be overwritten. The Price: $79"

$80 and it may just make the problem worse.

 

[Fardringle]

Install the free version (here) on a drive other than the one with problems and let it scan the E: drive to see what it can find. If the files are all recoverable, then the cost of the full version (that will let you recover the files) may be worthwhile. If it cannot read the files then you haven't lost anything except a little bit of time running the scan.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Just one more question, if I wipe my programs drive, do I also have to wipe my Main Windows Drive?

 

[compnovice]

If Barts PE didn't work, you might want to try Ubuntu.... Not too sure it will read the drive, but worse you might be out of another cd..