Windows won't start up - Bad hard drive and/or Windows

[bobcox- with the Lord]

have you installed any cards or new drivers. if so remove them and see what happens, i am told you need to do a disc repair. you will need a disc with windows xp if that is your operating system. also try pressing F10 at boot and see if you can do anything from there. Bob

[billyo]

Originally Posted by bobcox

have you installed any cards or new drivers. if so remove them and see what happens, i am told you need to do a disc repair. you will need a disc with windows xp if that is your operating system. also try pressing F10 at boot and see if you can do anything from there. Bob

i havent installed anything, i had hoster open, and i was trying to searched a song to play , and when i found the song i clicked on play and the cue button stayed on a bit, so i clicked on play again and my laptop frozed and a red bar went acrossed my screen, and i had to do a hard re-boot..that's when it all started..
thanks for youre adviced, i've tried that and the same problem still exist...

[admin]

Originally Posted by billyo

i havent installed anything, i had hoster open, and i was trying to searched a song to play , and when i found the song i clicked on play and the cue button stayed on a bit, so i clicked on play again and my laptop frozed and a red bar went acrossed my screen, and i had to do a hard re-boot..that's when it all started..
thanks for youre adviced, i've tried that and the same problem still exist...

If I am right, when this type of problem happens with any appication program, Windows was already damaged and the app just exercised that area or the Windows code. Microsoft goes to extreme lengths to insure Windows is robust and cannot be damaged by an application program.

It may be that your computer RAM is going bad, or has some bad bits. If you have a memory test program, I'd run it overnight and see what it reports.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by admin

If I am right, when this type of problem happens with any appication program, Windows was already damaged and the app just exercised that area or the Windows code. Microsoft goes to extreme lengths to insure Windows is robust and cannot be damaged by an application program.

It may be that your computer RAM is going bad, or has some bad bits. If you have a memory test program, I'd run it overnight and see what it reports.

thanks for you suggestion.i had to replaced the hardrive and its working fine now..just re-installed all os and all the drivers..didnt re-install hoster yet caused im waiting on the new laptop that i ordered , still using my back-up laptop..so now i have 3 laptops i might get hoster lite for the old one ..but anyway thanks to all who tried to help..

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by billyo

thanks for you suggestion.i had to replaced the hardrive and its working fine now..just re-installed all os and all the drivers..didnt re-install hoster yet caused im waiting on the new laptop that i ordered , still using my back-up laptop..so now i have 3 laptops i might get hoster lite for the old one ..but anyway thanks to all who tried to help..

I have had problems like this from time to time. What I generaly do is
re-seat the cables to my hard drives. Sometimes what is really happening is just a loose connection so windows can not find your hard drive. It comes up and says something like it can't find the operating system or no bootable drive etc. but what is really happening is it can't find the drive because of the loose connection. I have done this many times. It might have something to do with moving the computer from place to place or from being in a cold place then moving to a warm place etc. Since I stopped using my home computer for the show computer. I have not had this problem. Your original drive may not be bad. It might be that all you need do is hook it back up.

See ya

gpayne

[billyo]

Originally Posted by gpayne

I have had problems like this from time to time. What I generaly do is
re-seat the cables to my hard drives. Sometimes what is really happening is just a loose connection so windows can not find your hard drive. It comes up and says something like it can't find the operating system or no bootable drive etc. but what is really happening is it can't find the drive because of the loose connection. I have done this many times. It might have something to do with moving the computer from place to place or from being in a cold place then moving to a warm place etc. Since I stopped using my home computer for the show computer. I have not had this problem. Your original drive may not be bad. It might be that all you need do is hook it back up.

i never thought of that..but anyway my laptop is built into a case along with my board and ext. drive and my plextor drive, all i had to do is t/on the power and hooked up my speaker cables..i guessed i panicked when all these stuff started happening..and these happened once so often..if i re-seat my old drive and take out the new one do i have to re-install windows and drivers again on the new one if it the old drive doesnt worked? thanks..im in no hurry since i have a back-up ( bought it about 2 mos. ago ) which i am using till i get the other laptop i ordered supposed to be here monday nov. 13..

[gpayne]

You should not have to do anything. You should be able to hook up either drive if the operating system is good on both drives. The only difference would be that the contents of the drives would not be identical. I would intall the old drive and if everything works then just reformat it and keep it for a spare since you have already intalled a new drive and reinstalled the software. If there is really nothing wrong with the original drive everything should work as it did before. I am assuming that this was the "C" drive. (The drive that had the operating system on it.(Windows).) I must admit that I thought you were talking about a desktop or tower type computer though. I did not understand that you had two laptops. My experience was with a tower type computer case.

gpayne