Windows not loading..auto restarts

[jeremyk]

Hello,
First, thanks for any help.

I was doing maintenence on my computer. I defragmented, then I ran chkdsk,
which required me to restart. After 1 hour, chkdsk was only at 30% on stage
4 of 5. We needed to check email, and we reset the computer while it was
"Checking File Data (stage 4 of 5)" (which seems now like a very bad thing to
do..)

Now Windows XP Home boots into a screen, which has choices to boot into safe
mode, last good configuration, or boot normal. I've tried all and none
worked. First it shows the windows loading screen, then it quickly flashes a
blue screen and automatically restarts. I have some important data, and I
would like to save it.

Any help is appreciated. I may not respond until tomorrow, because I will
be checking my responses for the library computers down my street (which is
where I am right now). If I am near a friends computer I may respond later
tonight.

Thanks,

Jeremy

 

[Gerry]

Jeremy

To retrieve data you can place the drive in another computer as a slave
.. Whilst it is there you can run HD Tune to check the status of the
drive. It sounds as though you may need to replace it.

Try running HD Tune(freeware).

Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface
scan with HD Tune.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[db ´¯`·.. >]

try booting with a
windows cd. then
enter the recovery
console:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...ocs/en-us/recovery_console_cmds.mspx?mfr=true

when you get to the
file system prompt
run a command like
chkdsk

if you are curious about
the command you can run
chkdsk/help or
chkdsk/? at the prompt.

here is a listing of
other useful commands:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...ocs/en-us/recovery_console_cmds.mspx?mfr=true

there is a possibility that
after the checkdisk is
successful you may also encounter
an issue with booting into
the o.s.,

if so, then run the commands
fixboot and
bootcfg /rebuild
at the prompt.

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[jeremyk]

Thanks, I have put the hard-drive in another computer as a slave. It finds
both partitions (the main partition, and the emachines recovery partition),
and it explores the recovery partition, but not the main partition that has
all my files on it. When I right click the drive that has my files on it, it
says it is corrupted. There must be a way to rescue my files without paying
a pro huge bucks that I don't have. I just want my files, then getting a new
hard-drive should be no problem.

I also entered the recovery console from the windows disk, and I was only
able to run chkdsk on the the recovery partition, because It was the only
partition listed... my main partition with all my files on it was not
detected in the recovery console.

So far I have had no luck. I really need the files on it, but the repair
man wants $250 dollars.

I'll check out HDTune.

Thanks for all the help. I'll check this again tomorrow hopefully.

 

[Gerry]

Jeremy

Running chkdsk before recovering data files can be a mistake.

With the problem disk in your second computer here are some suggestions.

What information is revealed about the partitions if you select Start,
Control Panel, Computer Management, Disk Management.

Download and install TweakUi.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. Check the box before the
partition assuming it is there. Note because you cannot have two drives
with the same drive letter the system on the second computer should
change the drive letters on the problem drive from C etc.

Ttry Restoration. It has worked for me:
http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.htm

It could be that chkdsk has destroyed the partition structure and / or
corrupted the system files but left the data files intact. The important
thing is not to write new data to the disk before you have recovered
what you want to recover. Thus running Disk Defragmenter would be a
mistake. Try Restoration even if you cannot
see the partition.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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firstly, keep in mind that i
share your concern about
loosing all that data.

further i think you made an
excellent decision when
you decided to make that
drive as a slave.

what comes to mind is that
maybe the ntfs crashed, which
does happen.

go to the homesite where
acronis disk director
is sold and download
the trial copy.

if the issue you have is
a crashed ntfs for that particular
partition, then acronis
will be able to scan it and
show you some of its contents.

if so then your partition
is recoverable with that program.

i bought acronis disk director sometime
ago, and it was an excellent
investment.

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