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Okay.. I built a computer about 2-3 years ago for a friend and today it crapped out. She had it in hibernate mode and during the resume phase it went to a screen that said delete restoration and resume to boot menu. No matter what I can't get it off of that screen. I tried resetting the CMOS and removing and replacing the battery. Same thing. I also tried booting from an XP disk but it always goes back to the resuming windows thing... I switched the boot menu to only read from the disk but when it asks me to hit a key to boot nothing happens when I do. Please help!
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I was excited by the tip... but it actually does NOT delete the restoration data... it freezes at that point... doing nothing.
i can't even get it to boot from the CD... argh!
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LOL we think alike - I think you would have beaten me if I decided to give some explanation along with the MSKB link.
i_XpUser
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another thought...
it's a USB wireless keyboard. even though it lets me get the bios could it be the keyboard comes unoperative during startup?
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okay... i used a regular keyboard and now I am getting the blue screen of death saying unmountable boot sector... i have xp... anyway of not reformatting?
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You should boot from your XP disc and go into recovery console, then run chkdsk /r to resolve that error.
0. Boot off of a Windows XP CD. Press R to get to the recovery console.
1. Press 1 to log onto Windows then press Enter. You will need the administrative password to get into to command prompt. If the administrator password was blank press enter.
2. Type: chkdsk /r
3. When the disk check is done type: Exit
4. Take the Windows XP CD out. Windows should start normally.
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Okay... as a last resort I did the chkdsk /r and it got to a point where it found sectors and stopped working. Totally fried the drive, atleast the boot portion which seemingly was gone anyway.
Went and got another drive, will it be possible to salvage information off the old one still?
Thanks
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You might be lucky depending on the location and how severe those bad sectors are.
Set that drive aside for now & only attempt to access it (as a slaved device) once you've gotten the new drive up and running.
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okay.. new drive is going good. I put in the old one as a slave and it says that it is not formatted when I try and access it through my computer.
Would i fare better if I put it in my ext. and tried getting in through the usb connection? (i know, probably grasping at straws here)
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I sensed and was dreading the response above.
Anyway try it through the USB connection, you might have a better shot at an access.
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