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Hey all,
Just checking with you guys about a problem I'm trying to fix on my fathers PC.
Just out of the blue (according to him
) he turned on the PC and it all seems to load fine until the black screen with Windows written on it and the progress bar thingy that scrolls round from left to right....it just scrolls and scrolls. I tried it myself as well and I left it and about 5 mins of scrolling it just freezes up.
I then tried just booting into safemode and it scrolls through the list of drivers and frooze on cscdisk.sys. I tried command prompt and that does the same.
Fine I thought, I'll stick the vista disk in and do a repair or reinstall. So it boots from the vista disk, it says its copying system files across and then when that progress bar fills up, it just goes back to the black windows screen with the scrolling bar as if its loading up windows which just freezes.
So....I then thoiught it might be a HDD problem, so I put an od 200gig I have sitting about. It ussed to be part of a RAID, so it wont load windows up as I tested. So I tried booting from vista DVD again and it does the same as it did with the other HDD, it says its copying system files and then goes to the black windows loading screen and eventually freezes.
I then thought I would go to command prompt with the new HDD and format it or something...but then it goes through the list of drivers and stops at disk.sys (different from the other one).
So...tbh I'm a bit stumped. My last thought was maybe its a SATA/IDE controller problem with the MoBo?
Any ideas?
Just checking with you guys about a problem I'm trying to fix on my fathers PC.
Just out of the blue (according to him
) he turned on the PC and it all seems to load fine until the black screen with Windows written on it and the progress bar thingy that scrolls round from left to right....it just scrolls and scrolls. I tried it myself as well and I left it and about 5 mins of scrolling it just freezes up.I then tried just booting into safemode and it scrolls through the list of drivers and frooze on cscdisk.sys. I tried command prompt and that does the same.
Fine I thought, I'll stick the vista disk in and do a repair or reinstall. So it boots from the vista disk, it says its copying system files across and then when that progress bar fills up, it just goes back to the black windows screen with the scrolling bar as if its loading up windows which just freezes.
So....I then thoiught it might be a HDD problem, so I put an od 200gig I have sitting about. It ussed to be part of a RAID, so it wont load windows up as I tested. So I tried booting from vista DVD again and it does the same as it did with the other HDD, it says its copying system files and then goes to the black windows loading screen and eventually freezes.
I then thought I would go to command prompt with the new HDD and format it or something...but then it goes through the list of drivers and stops at disk.sys (different from the other one).
So...tbh I'm a bit stumped. My last thought was maybe its a SATA/IDE controller problem with the MoBo?
Any ideas?
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