XP Boot Problem

[raygunpk]

My brother was using my computer the other day, and he said it froze so he tried to restart it. He pressed the power supply switch in the back to turn it off, and now everytime it turns on it freezes at the Windows XP loading screen with the moving blue bar.

I've tried chkdsk /r but it says that there are too many errors on the volume. I also cannot boot into Safe mode.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[dealmaster00]

Originally posted by: raygunpk
My brother was using my computer the other day, and he said it froze so he tried to restart it. He pressed the power supply switch in the back to turn it off, and now everytime it turns on it freezes at the Windows XP loading screen with the moving blue bar.

I've tried chkdsk /r but it says that there are too many errors on the volume. I also cannot boot into Safe mode.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Sounds like the HD is fried. Hopefully you made backups and the HD is still under warranty. This has happened to me once before and I used a couple of other HD-recovery tools (aka, burn them to CD-R and boot from the CD-R) and chkdsk /r and managed to save some of my data before it was completely corrupted.

 

[raygunpk]

So there is no way I can get back up and running?

 

[thegorx]

hmm .... I would think you could restart with the restart case button or force shutdown with the power button by holding it down for four seconds, even if the hard drive went tits up.

Unless of course by not able to restart - meaning inside Windows with the start button in which case the act off throwing the power supply switch and cutting the power could have added to the prroblem.

get a utility disk from the drive makers web site and test it in another machine

there is a a possibility that it's something else that's the problem such as the power supply itself or maybe the motherboard got more messed up when the power was cut in which case you might want to reset the cmos.

All in all, it be best to understand exactly what happened when the system frooze the first time,

"sights, sounds, smells"

if it wouldn't respond to the case power switch, personally I'd be thinking power.

 

[imported_Rogie]

When I had that problem, I had to take the drive out and hook it up to a different computer and use recovery software like GetDataBack to retrieve my data files. And chucked the drive, of course.