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hi there thanks for taking the time to read this message.
allthough i dont think its a hardware problem i listed it here.
well i got two harddrives one is a western digital caviar 120gb and one is a western digital caviar 160gb. On the 160gb i have got windows xp set up.
i have had this version on windows xp running for around 1 year. but 2weeks ago, i started up the computer. bios run normally and everything seemed fine. But just past bios normally when the black screen comes up with windows xp it didnt. all that happened after bios was that the screen went black and there was a cursor flashing on the top left of the screen. The orange lite for the harddisk was on for around 10 seconds. then this bacl screen came up, pressing nething on the keyboard woulndt work.
So i decided to put the windows xp cd in to attempt a recover of startup files as i am sure it is this problem. i got into setup screen but there was no way i could press R or f10 to repair. all i could do was setup a new windows installation.
so i decided to go to the 120gb hardrive and set up windows xp on that . this worked and i set up the 160gb as slave just to check my files. and it works to so im happy abt that.
people tell me to "reinstall windows" and everything will be alrite!!! no way i dont want to do that you r talking abt setting and program files that took me 8 months to sort out!!!! reinstalling windows will be ,my last option.
i done this long time back and noticed that all my programs were not registered to me!!!! thaths hurtful!!!!!!
so what does everyone think i should do!!!!!! this is really getting to me!!!! i am lost and dont know what to do?
P~L~E~A~S~E A~D~V~I~S~E~
thanks
allthough i dont think its a hardware problem i listed it here.
well i got two harddrives one is a western digital caviar 120gb and one is a western digital caviar 160gb. On the 160gb i have got windows xp set up.
i have had this version on windows xp running for around 1 year. but 2weeks ago, i started up the computer. bios run normally and everything seemed fine. But just past bios normally when the black screen comes up with windows xp it didnt. all that happened after bios was that the screen went black and there was a cursor flashing on the top left of the screen. The orange lite for the harddisk was on for around 10 seconds. then this bacl screen came up, pressing nething on the keyboard woulndt work.
So i decided to put the windows xp cd in to attempt a recover of startup files as i am sure it is this problem. i got into setup screen but there was no way i could press R or f10 to repair. all i could do was setup a new windows installation.
so i decided to go to the 120gb hardrive and set up windows xp on that . this worked and i set up the 160gb as slave just to check my files. and it works to so im happy abt that.
people tell me to "reinstall windows" and everything will be alrite!!! no way i dont want to do that you r talking abt setting and program files that took me 8 months to sort out!!!! reinstalling windows will be ,my last option.
i done this long time back and noticed that all my programs were not registered to me!!!! thaths hurtful!!!!!!
so what does everyone think i should do!!!!!! this is really getting to me!!!! i am lost and dont know what to do?
P~L~E~A~S~E A~D~V~I~S~E~
thanks