Corn,
Do you get anything at all when you try to boot up? A blue screen (of death) ... an error message after the boot sequence fails... anything?
What kind of PC, which OS, what video card, how much ram, what type of processor?... etc, etc... it all helps us make the diagnosis, remotely...
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Reboot Recovery
Re: Reboot Recovery
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Corn,
Okay... we have established that you are using Vista. And you are saying that the screen that you have pictured in the second link appears but nothing works? What about the restore point command... can you fire that off and restore to a point that is a day or two before this happened?
If not, when you ran the repair from the DVD did you actually see it scanning the disk and trying to re-install the corrupted drivers, or any other corrupted portion of the Vista OS?
Do you have another PC that this drive could be slaved to, just so that you are sure that you can get to the data files that are on the hard drive (pictures, etc.) and move them off to another device before they are lost???
HotStick-PG-
Okay... we have established that you are using Vista. And you are saying that the screen that you have pictured in the second link appears but nothing works? What about the restore point command... can you fire that off and restore to a point that is a day or two before this happened?
If not, when you ran the repair from the DVD did you actually see it scanning the disk and trying to re-install the corrupted drivers, or any other corrupted portion of the Vista OS?
Do you have another PC that this drive could be slaved to, just so that you are sure that you can get to the data files that are on the hard drive (pictures, etc.) and move them off to another device before they are lost???
HotStick-PG-
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Re: Reboot Recovery
I agree with HotSticks. Try hooking it up slave/secondary to another machine get all your stuff backed up. Second burn a all your pictures to a disk. You should never just have it on a hard drive for this exact reason.
From here there are two things you can try. One is the restore back to another date. The other is you might have software installed that you did not intend to install. Malware, spyware can cause this exact same problem. I have fixed many machines that do this and it will drive you nuts. First see if you can get to a desktop using safe mode. Before windows starts to boot up press F8 until you get a menu screen. If it will allow you to boot into safe mode you should get yourself a flash drive(unless you have one).
Install these programs and run them to see if your system is infected.
Get the free version
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Also get this one
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Both are the best at removing spywayre, trojan horses, and some viruses.
P.S. if you can get into safemode try picking the SafeMode with Networking. This way you can update the two programs to there latest definitions.
From here there are two things you can try. One is the restore back to another date. The other is you might have software installed that you did not intend to install. Malware, spyware can cause this exact same problem. I have fixed many machines that do this and it will drive you nuts. First see if you can get to a desktop using safe mode. Before windows starts to boot up press F8 until you get a menu screen. If it will allow you to boot into safe mode you should get yourself a flash drive(unless you have one).
Install these programs and run them to see if your system is infected.
Get the free version
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Also get this one
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Both are the best at removing spywayre, trojan horses, and some viruses.
P.S. if you can get into safemode try picking the SafeMode with Networking. This way you can update the two programs to there latest definitions.
Re: Reboot Recovery
Hmm damn hardware but awesome card!!!!
Re: Reboot Recovery
Good to have you back.... nice card!!!
PS... you really ought to consider a USB external drive for backing up your media, as well a burning your images to disk... I am sure you would hate to lose all of those memories
HotStick-PG-
PS... you really ought to consider a USB external drive for backing up your media, as well a burning your images to disk... I am sure you would hate to lose all of those memories
HotStick-PG-
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