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Atrax

Atrax

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Guys I went to my PC this morning and noticed I had left it on last night.

None of the programmes were actually responding, including Startbar (it would open but I couldnt select anything).
I had to hold the power button in to shut my pc down.

Now, no matter how I start my PC (Last safe setting, normal or safe mode), during the start up it flashes a blue screen (too quick for me to read it) and then reboots and tries again. This just keeps happening.

Im running on XP pro.

Anyone got any ideas whats up?

Thanks (posting from Laptop, which doesnt run World of Warcraft very well :( )
 
Sounds like windows may have corrupted, perhaps your hard drive is dieing :(
You could try using the repair option on the XP install disc. I'm afraid I haven't used it myself so I'm not exactly sure how it works, but check it out and hopefully it'll fix any problems for you :)
 
Would taking my HD out and putting it into my Flatmates PC to drag the files I want too keep onto my external drive work?

After that I dont mind if i need a new HD etc. I just dont want too lose a lot of my files, pics etc etc
 
Atrax said:
Guys I went to my PC this morning and noticed I had left it on last night.

None of the programmes were actually responding, including Startbar (it would open but I couldnt select anything).
I had to hold the power button in to shut my pc down.

Now, no matter how I start my PC (Last safe setting, normal or safe mode), during the start up it flashes a blue screen (too quick for me to read it) and then reboots and tries again. This just keeps happening.

Im running on XP pro.

Anyone got any ideas whats up?

Thanks (posting from Laptop, which doesnt run World of Warcraft very well :( )
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ignore me sorry :rolleyes:
 
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Ive just noticed that on start up my primary master device is seen as NONE.

I presume this means that my HD is fooked. :(
Is there any way to get the files of this if I use it as a secondary slave drive or seomthing? of course Ill have to get another HD first.

Edit- Should I try putting the Windows XP disc in on start up?
Would I lose the files on the HD if I did so?
 
burtieb1 said:
Turn off automatically restart on error.

START>SETTINGS>CONTROL PANEL
Double left click SYSTEM
Left click the ADVANCED tab
In the STARTUP AND RECOVERY section, left click the SETTINGS button.
In the SYSTEM FAILURE section, unchceck AUTOMATICALLY RESTART.
Left click OK
Left click APPLY
Left click OK

Then you'll get a BSOD instead of a restart.
Write down the exact error code and come back and tell us what it says.
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Well you learn something new everyday, that could come in quite handy :cool:
 
Atrax said:
Ive just noticed that on start up my primary master device is seen as NONE.

I presume this means that my HD is fooked. :(
Is there any way to get the files of this if I use it as a secondary slave drive or seomthing? of course Ill have to get another HD first.
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At a guess if it's not seeing it as the primary master it wont see it as a s econdary slave or anything. Sounds like the HD is toast, best you can do is replace it then try to recover anything on it by putting it on IDE 2 or something.

Did you try to pull files off it by putting it in your friends PC yet? Maybe you took it out and not put it back correctly?

Do you have something else on primary secondary (same cable as the HD is on) and does that show up ok in bios?
 
YoungBlood said:
At a guess if it's not seeing it as the primary master it wont see it as a s econdary slave or anything. Sounds like the HD is toast, best you can do is replace it then try to recover anything on it by putting it on IDE 2 or something.

Did you try to pull files off it by putting it in your friends PC yet? Maybe you took it out and not put it back correctly?

Do you have something else on primary secondary (same cable as the HD is on) and does that show up ok in bios?
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I havent touched the HD yet. So that shouldnt be an issue.

Primary Master: None
Secondary Slave: Maxter 6Y120P0 YAR41BW0
Secondary Master: PIONEER DVD-RW
Secondary Slave: None

Third Master: Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR51HWG
Third Secondary : None

Now I already have a main and a slave drive and a DVD rw.
Could they both drives be in the above but just not as Primary Master?

Think its still an HD prob?
 
Well if you have changed nothing then it seems your HD has had it's last day. Try putting it on the Primary cable on it's own, if nothing is detected then, I guess you gotta replace it. Thankfully there cheap as chips now, no dought the data you might of lost is more valuable than the HD it's self.
 
burtieb1 said:
Lol it does come in handy,but not for this topic lol(to many beers last night to be posting)
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Apollagies if my post came across as sarcastic, I genuinly ment it would come in handy. There are so many little tweaks and things in windows XP it's always nice to learn of something new.
 
YoungBlood said:
Apollagies if my post came across as sarcastic, I genuinly ment it would come in handy. There are so many little tweaks and things in windows XP it's always nice to learn of something new.
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No you were not coming across as anything mate no worries :D
 
I'd try the hard drive on a different data cable with a different power cable and connected to the other IDE channel, just to be sure.

Edit - And with no other ide devices.
 
Sure its not a virus? i had something similar coulnt boot. I fixed with a BartPE rescue disk my friend had. Booted from that and it copied the whole contents of hardrive over to a new partition on there. Then format windows and copy every worth wile file over again?
I dunno about hardrive not getting detected, just opening up new ideas :o
 
ok, so I found a way to see what was written on the blue screen that flashes up for a milisecond prior to rebooting.

I used my video camera so that I could pause it when the blue screen comes up :p

Unmountable_boot_volume

So after some googling I found
http://www.techtips4u.com/kb/sw/SW00014.htm

If I do this will I lose all the files on my HD?
Would I be better going out and getting another HD and trying to salvage my current files using the broken HD as a slave and dragging them across?

Thanks for the help guys its appreciated. :)
 
this should not lose your files. .


but if i were you i would put this HD into another pc as a slave drive and copy off your data
 
Paulus said:
this should not lose your files. .


but if i were you i would put this HD into another pc as a slave drive and copy off your data
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ok thanks.

I might go to the local pc shop and get a new HD.
Install XP onto that and then copy the files over that way.

I need a new HD for this machine so I have another for my new build anyway.
 
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