Windows/ Hard Drive Issues?
I went on vacation this weekend and when I came back I had the blue screen of death. No big deal, it’s happened before, so I rebooted the computer. Windows went to start up, and then I recieved another blue screen, and instanteously the computer would restart on it’s own. I tried safe mode, DOS prompt, and others trying to restart, but windows wouldn’t come up. Long story short, I was able to get my way back into windows after using chkdsk and other utilities, but now my start menu and toolbar aren’t there. My icons are where I left them, but there’s no bar, quick launch, or start button. One thing I did notice…after rt clicking My Computer and clicking properties, under Computer where your system info. is IE Processor, RAM, ETC. It’s only showing RAM. It’s like the C Drive has all the information it needs, the processor just can’t see anything. Out of curiousity, I tried to defrag from the command prompt, and it tells me “windows can not connect to the disk defrag engine.” HELP!
I hope you had backups of any documents/files on that hard disk. Your windows install is corrupt, and it almost certainly isn’t coming back, I’m afraid. If you can’t get in to safe mode, you won’t be able to restore your most recent restore point. If you can, this might help.
If you have a spare hard disk, you might want to try installing windows on a separate harddrive, then attaching this old harddrive as a slave to see if you can salvage any of the data off it. Be warned there is every possibility that this fault has been caused by a virus, so doing this may infect your new install. If the data on the disk isn’t critical, you may just want to completely reformat the drive and build windows again. If the build runs particularly slowly, or won’t go on at all, then the fault is a physical one with the hdd. Time to go shopping.
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