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System Halted
Name: Mike89 Date: February 28, 2005 at 13:16:42 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: 512mb RAM
Comment:
Everytime I try to boot up my computer it goes to a black screen saying, "Boot Failure: System Halted". So after that I restart it and it does the same thing. So I unplug the main power cord from the back and put it back in and it boots up. Then after about a minute after I log in(so I can't change anything because it hasn't loaded yet) it shows a blue screen. Somewhere in the blue screen it tells me to restart it and boot it up in safe mode, but after I'm tapping F8 I only get two choices and there is no safe mode. And when I chose the other two choices the result is still a boot failure. This started happening to me from this morning I think because last night I ran disk defragmenter with only 6% space. It said it might not work properly, I didn't think it would halt the computer. What should I do?
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: February 28, 2005 at 13:25:53 Pacific
Reply:
can you boot to dos mode with a boot floppy? If so at the a prompt type in scandisk c: then hit enter and do a full surface scan
" IF IT AINT BROKE - LEAVE IT ALONE "
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike89 Date: February 28, 2005 at 13:41:57 Pacific
Reply:
Would the boot floppy come with the computer or what, because I'm not sure what that is.
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Response Number 3
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: February 28, 2005 at 15:16:23 Pacific
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windows boot disk, if you dont have one you can get one from BOOT DISK.COM
" IF IT AINT BROKE - LEAVE IT ALONE "
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Response Number 4
Name: Mike89 Date: February 28, 2005 at 15:28:51 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, I used my Windows XP disk and went to ATAPI CD-ROM and there are two options: to repair windows and to install windows... one problem, when I go to either of these, it says the Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on my computer... and I have to quit.
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Response Number 5
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: February 28, 2005 at 15:34:46 Pacific
Reply:
when you start your computer,can you get into your bios and does the bios recognise the hard drive
" IF IT AINT BROKE - LEAVE IT ALONE "
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Response Number 6
Name: Mike89 Date: February 28, 2005 at 15:37:45 Pacific
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