Computer wont boot

Naffa · 15 Jun 2006 at 15:46

Just got back and switched on my pc all was good.. Then I had a power cut just as the login screen was about to appear. I was slightly annoyed, but ah well. So I waited for the power to return, 3-4 seconds later it's back on. So I boot up again. Then the Windows XP loading screen appears, then it disappears as it would when the login screen was going to appear... But rather than the login screen appearing, I get a brief flash of the BSOD and then the PC restarts... I have no idea why :mad:

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

I have a Maxtor hdd as I bought my pc when I was a noob, so I'm thinking the power cut may have finished it off? Also I'm on Windows XP x64..

But it was 100% fine just before I went out 2 or so hours ago and now.. Nothing :mad:

If anyone can offer any help then I would really appriciate it,
Naffa

Naffa · 15 Jun 2006 at 16:02

Good idea Batman

Naffa · 15 Jun 2006 at 16:13

Oakily doakily, I'll wack in the XP disk soon and have a bash at recovery.

I attempted to boot in safe mode and no luck. The list of files scrolled down the screen then it froze. Then the applet appeared on the LCD of my keyboard ( :cool:

) like it does just before it restarts. Then it restarted.

I just remembered that I deleted some registry files that Regseeker found to be unnessesary or corrupt. Maybe thats got something to do with it?

Will try with Windows CD now, thanks for your help

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Naffa · 15 Jun 2006 at 16:45

I ran chkdsk and it said that it was fine, but if you want to check the volume anyway use /p. So I did that and it came up with 'one or more errors' and I don't know what to do now..

Naffa · 15 Jun 2006 at 17:22

I think I'm going to give up.. Just gotta copy 25GB of My Documents to another PC and reformat. How long do you reckon it will take a 1.3Ghz Duron to copy 25GB of documents? A week?