Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 plz help today i woke up and turned my computer on to find this error and it says it wont boot windows so it doesent harm my computer, I tried going into safe mode but i get the same error i didnt touch anything i didnt put any new hardware in it was fine last night what could have possibly gone wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munki Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Turn off the computer for a few minutes, then turn it back on. I got the same error a few days ago, but when i turned it off and back on windows started up normally. Hope this helps. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 heres some things that may help figure this out when my computer shuts of it restarts and i have to turn it of when its about to shut down or booting up and it says that i changed hardware but i was playing a game till 3am last night so i think i would remember changing hardware then unless the little hardware monster can and changed my hardware :paranoid: plz help i just passed it so far in fallout tactics and i have my whole website on there :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 Originally posted by Edge Turn off the computer for a few minutes, then turn it back on. I got the same error a few days ago, but when i turned it off and back on windows started up normally. Hope this helps. :) ok i turned it off now and ill wait a good 30 mins before i turn it back on i really hope it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 well that didnt work and the stupid computer keeps telling me its software or hardware i installed but the only thing i installed was fallout tactics and even so i cant get rid of it... hmm im gonna try to put the xp cd in boot from cd and fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munki Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 hmm im gonna try to put the xp cd in boot from cd and fix. Yeah...your best bet would be the repair option. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 well the win XP fix didnt work and i replugged everything that didnt work either so what can be the problem someoe please help :x :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Follow these instructions, Put you WinXP CD into CD Drive. and then boot from it. If its not bootable then you need any bootable CD. Run Recovery Console, by pressing "R". if you installed your windows into C: Drive then change the Drive letter to C: , it will ask you for administrator password give the admin password, when you login into C: drive. Type CHKDSK and hit Enter, it will check the errors for unmountable Boot Volume. Restart your PC in normal mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 grr now when i try to boot from cd it oesent even say press any key to boot from cd and i tried every way to boot like 50 times each cd rom first d first e first f first c first this i smaking me so mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagaku Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Pyro.. There's really only one option. Format your drive. From the looks of it, you have more then one computer, or at least a friend with another computer, that you can hopefully use to backup any vital information (Game saves, mp3s, that sorta stuff). Ironicly enough, this just happened to a friend of mine, while we were at a LAN Party last Saturday. We showed up around 9am, hooked everything up, he boots up, and gets greeted by a big blue screen. We tried backing his stuff up, but my system couldn't read the drive. Partition Magic said it had a CRC error in the partition table, and wouldn't repair it. So he ended up losing a bunch of stuff.. We finally got the system workin' around 1pm.. Hope you have more luck then we did in recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 try to get into the console, you can run the chkdsk as well as another that tries to repair the boot volume, this just happened to a friend of mine, it did not work however, FORMAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 i have my entire website on there and many parts that havent been uploaded about 15 mp3 albums and with a bandwith cap thats a big waste + i have a few saved game files that ive been playing for hours to get. I'm working on my seccond computer but my dad uses this one so i dont back my stuff up here cause the hd isnt big enough. So im pretty much screwed? when i first got fallout tactics i started playing it got far lost the savedgame file and 1 year later being last night i started to play it again got really far and now im gonna loose it again? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 Originally posted by username try to get into the console, you can run the chkdsk as well as another that tries to repair the boot volume, this just happened to a friend of mine, it did not work however, FORMAT console? wheres that and how do i get into it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaraBoft Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Just put the hdd in another pc, and copy all the data.... then format and reinstall.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 you need to use the windows xp CD and boot it and go into the repair console, type "help" once there and it will give you a lits of tools that can help you out one thig for sure, you learned the lesson of backing up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 nah didnt learn my lesson yet i just did check disk which didnt work then i wrote a new boot sector which did the trick, only thing i can say is phew hehe gonna do disk cleanup scandisk and defrag now then go back to my game i already spent enough time not playing it :) Thanx for the help guys and i hope someone can search for this if they have the same problem :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonke Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 i had the same problem on one of my comps, it turns out that the HD had NOTHING to do w/ it, instead it was the cd-rom's fault, i suggest shutting off the comp and disconnecting EVERY not neesntial hardware. the only bood w/: motherboard ram hard drive videocard the problem is most likely with one of the other hardware devices, i really hope this works cause i had no-one to help me with mine i took me about a week to figure out that the CD-rom was fried giving me the error message. formating did not seem to do the trick. B4 you do what i've said tho try booting in safemode, if that works then it is NOT the HD, or the VC. i could bet it is a cd-rom good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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