Where can i find a diagnostic program...

[Guest]

to pin-point what's wrong with my system, is very slow, i restart and is even
slower to boot up, i fragmented, clear files, ran antivirus, ran the new beta
LiveCare, and it told me my system is running Good. What i want to do is
reformatt but is not even booting the recovery CD for window xp, i check the
cd rom is working properly. why can i run the recovery cd, it just trys to
boot window xp. it goes to windows xp screen and it hangs there for hrs the
it goes to dischk and thats another hr. What else can i do even if i have to
reformatt. ?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Time to bring your computer to a technician.

 

[DrJoel]

to pin-point what's wrong with my system, is very slow, i restart and is even
slower to boot up, i fragmented, clear files, ran antivirus, ran the new beta
LiveCare, and it told me my system is running Good. What i want to do is
reformatt but is not even booting the recovery CD for window xp, i check the
cd rom is working properly. why can i run the recovery cd, it just trys to
boot window xp. it goes to windows xp screen and it hangs there for hrs the
it goes to dischk and thats another hr. What else can i do even if i have to
reformatt. ?

First you must make sure that your CD ROM is set to boot before Windows.
You do that in the System BIOS. In the BIOS you will find boot order,
make sure that the CD ROM is loading before C drive.

 

[Guest]

Hi,
It's time to get yourself a good Hard Drive with a lot of GIGs,it seems your
Hard Drive Gone Bad ( Bad Clusters) hence you said would like to go Chdisk or
Scandisk,if you have any important Data or Files try retrive them with third
party software,may be you droped your Case and the Hard Drive developed Bad
Clusters rendering your H Drive useless.
Good Luck and please write to the Group.
nass

 

[Quilljar]

to pin-point what's wrong with my system, is very slow, i restart and
is even slower to boot up, i fragmented, clear files, ran antivirus,
ran the new beta LiveCare, and it told me my system is running Good.
What i want to do is reformatt but is not even booting the recovery
CD for window xp, i check the cd rom is working properly. why can i
run the recovery cd, it just trys to boot window xp. it goes to
windows xp screen and it hangs there for hrs the it goes to dischk
and thats another hr. What else can i do even if i have to reformatt.
?

Go to Start/Run and type %temp%, when the temp window comes up delete ALL
its contents.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice but i check for bad clusters and is all good, i've
check files and is good, now what other way is to boot up from cdrom, please
if you don't know don't answer please.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System and
Application logs for the last 24 hours and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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