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My system has crashed, and will only boot to the white window with the blue bar. At first it would boot all the way up, but would freeze after a few minutes. The BIOS works fine. Using Norton utilities, I have run disk doctor, win doctor, as well as speed disk. Speed disk would not complete, and crashed during the defrag. It has also crashed in safe mode, and now safe mode won't open. When it freezes, I cannot turn the computer off without using the power button on the back of the pc.
I've checked all the attached hardware by eliminating one device at a time. I used powermax to run diagnostics on the hard drive. It checked out ok, however, it has had, at times, a horrible grinding or vibrating noise when it starts to "work". Much louder than the normal sound you usually hear when it starts to "work". I've tried to repair the os with my win2k cd and an emergency repair disk. Neither the R option nor the M option produced any results. When it gets to the screen with the large yellow bar it goes no further. Help
I'm thinking that the problem is the os software. I don't know what else to check. I can't do much without being able to boot up. I'm open to any and all ideas
My main question is, before I do a complete reinstall of the os (and lose everything), is there any way to use my win2k disk to do an "in-place upgrade" ?
Thanks for any help
Lou
I've checked all the attached hardware by eliminating one device at a time. I used powermax to run diagnostics on the hard drive. It checked out ok, however, it has had, at times, a horrible grinding or vibrating noise when it starts to "work". Much louder than the normal sound you usually hear when it starts to "work". I've tried to repair the os with my win2k cd and an emergency repair disk. Neither the R option nor the M option produced any results. When it gets to the screen with the large yellow bar it goes no further. Help
I'm thinking that the problem is the os software. I don't know what else to check. I can't do much without being able to boot up. I'm open to any and all ideas
My main question is, before I do a complete reinstall of the os (and lose everything), is there any way to use my win2k disk to do an "in-place upgrade" ?
Thanks for any help
Lou