XP won't Recover

[Guest]

I have a strange problem on my Gateway Notebook with Windows XP Home. I
started getting a virus notification and things were starting to quit working
(DVD's wouldn't play, wireless was hit and miss, etc.). It finally stopped
completely (BSOD on start-up). I tried re-loading the computer with my
recover CD's but nothing happens, just a black screen. I downloaded a boot
setup file and burned it to a CD from bootdisk.com and still nothing works (I
tried the CD on another computer and they work fine). I know my CDR\DVD is
good because I can load Linux on the computer without any problems and I know
my recover CD's are OK because I loaded another computer with them without
any problems. An old Windows 95 will boot up somewhat (I get an A: prompt,
which is funny since I don't have a floppy drive on that machine and hard
drive is G. I spent over two hours on chat line with Gateway "Tech Support"
(what a joke) to no avail. I have re-formatted the hard drive with FAT16,
FAT32 and NTFS (used AEFDISK) but still nothing works but yet I can load
Linux (I have tried REDHAT, Gentoo and UBUNTU) and everything works great. I
am using UBUNTU now and everthing (DVD, Wireless, etc) works great. I intend
to keep it as my main operating system, but would like to figure out the
Windows XP problem. I've decided my computer has become an anti-Bill
Gates/Microsoft machine. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Newbie]

kpederso wrote:
| I have a strange problem on my Gateway Notebook with Windows XP Home. I
| started getting a virus notification and things were starting to quit
| working (DVD's wouldn't play, wireless was hit and miss, etc.). It
| finally stopped completely (BSOD on start-up). I tried re-loading the
| computer with my recover CD's but nothing happens, just a black screen. I
| downloaded a boot setup file and burned it to a CD from bootdisk.com and
| still nothing works (I tried the CD on another computer and they work
| fine). I know my CDR\DVD is good because I can load Linux on the computer
| without any problems and I know my recover CD's are OK because I loaded
| another computer with them without any problems. An old Windows 95 will
| boot up somewhat (I get an A: prompt, which is funny since I don't have a
| floppy drive on that machine and hard drive is G. I spent over two
| hours on chat line with Gateway "Tech Support" (what a joke) to no avail.
| I have re-formatted the hard drive with FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS (used
| AEFDISK) but still nothing works but yet I can load Linux (I have tried
| REDHAT, Gentoo and UBUNTU) and everything works great. I am using UBUNTU
| now and everthing (DVD, Wireless, etc) works great. I intend to keep it
| as my main operating system, but would like to figure out the Windows XP
| problem. I've decided my computer has become an anti-Bill
| Gates/Microsoft machine. Anyone have any ideas?

Well, you had a virus which may have corrupted the harddrive disk. I would
use a zero-fill utility on it such as one can get at no charge from Maxtor
[MaxBlast4]. Use it to create a bootable floppy that you can use to
zero-fill out the virus from the harddrive.

If that does not fix it, I would consider a memory problem as well. It could
be a coincident problem. Windows XP and other NT variants tend to be be more
sensitive to a RAM memory problem than some other operating systems. Use
memtest86.exe (well known) to test the memory and see if there is a problem.

Your computer is not "anti-Microsoft". It just wants some care and
attention.

[MaxBlast4]
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...oftware Downloads/Top Downloads&downloadID=57

The TinyURL to same website:

http://tinyurl.com/7kk3j

[Memtest86]
http://www.memtest86.com

 

[Guest]

kpederso wrote:
| I have a strange problem on my Gateway Notebook with Windows XP Home. I
| started getting a virus notification and things were starting to quit
| working (DVD's wouldn't play, wireless was hit and miss, etc.). It
| finally stopped completely (BSOD on start-up). I tried re-loading the
| computer with my recover CD's but nothing happens, just a black screen. I
| downloaded a boot setup file and burned it to a CD from bootdisk.com and
| still nothing works (I tried the CD on another computer and they work
| fine). I know my CDR\DVD is good because I can load Linux on the computer
| without any problems and I know my recover CD's are OK because I loaded
| another computer with them without any problems. An old Windows 95 will
| boot up somewhat (I get an A: prompt, which is funny since I don't have a
| floppy drive on that machine and hard drive is G. I spent over two
| hours on chat line with Gateway "Tech Support" (what a joke) to no avail.
| I have re-formatted the hard drive with FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS (used
| AEFDISK) but still nothing works but yet I can load Linux (I have tried
| REDHAT, Gentoo and UBUNTU) and everything works great. I am using UBUNTU
| now and everthing (DVD, Wireless, etc) works great. I intend to keep it
| as my main operating system, but would like to figure out the Windows XP
| problem. I've decided my computer has become an anti-Bill
| Gates/Microsoft machine. Anyone have any ideas?

Well, you had a virus which may have corrupted the harddrive disk. I would
use a zero-fill utility on it such as one can get at no charge from Maxtor
[MaxBlast4]. Use it to create a bootable floppy that you can use to
zero-fill out the virus from the harddrive.

If that does not fix it, I would consider a memory problem as well. It could
be a coincident problem. Windows XP and other NT variants tend to be be more
sensitive to a RAM memory problem than some other operating systems. Use
memtest86.exe (well known) to test the memory and see if there is a problem.

Your computer is not "anti-Microsoft". It just wants some care and
attention.

[MaxBlast4]
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...oftware Downloads/Top Downloads&downloadID=57

The TinyURL to same website:

http://tinyurl.com/7kk3j

[Memtest86]
http://www.memtest86.com

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Newbie


None of those will do me any good since I can't boot Windows. I made a bootdisk CD from bootdisk.com and the same thing happens (black screen) as with my recover CD's. I do not have a floppy drive on this machine. Linux works fine and that was loaded from a CD. My bootdisk works on other computers, so that is good.

 

[Newbie]

kpederso wrote:
| "Newbie" wrote:
|
|| kpederso wrote:
||| I have a strange problem on my Gateway Notebook with Windows XP Home. I
||| started getting a virus notification and things were starting to quit
||| working (DVD's wouldn't play, wireless was hit and miss, etc.). It
||| finally stopped completely (BSOD on start-up). I tried re-loading the
||| computer with my recover CD's but nothing happens, just a black screen.
||| I downloaded a boot setup file and burned it to a CD from bootdisk.com
||| and still nothing works (I tried the CD on another computer and they
||| work fine). I know my CDR\DVD is good because I can load Linux on the
||| computer without any problems and I know my recover CD's are OK because
||| I loaded another computer with them without any problems. An old
||| Windows 95 will boot up somewhat (I get an A: prompt, which is funny
||| since I don't have a floppy drive on that machine and hard drive is
||| G. I spent over two hours on chat line with Gateway "Tech Support"
||| (what a joke) to no avail. I have re-formatted the hard drive with
||| FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS (used AEFDISK) but still nothing works but yet I
||| can load Linux (I have tried REDHAT, Gentoo and UBUNTU) and everything
||| works great. I am using UBUNTU now and everthing (DVD, Wireless, etc)
||| works great. I intend to keep it as my main operating system, but would
||| like to figure out the Windows XP problem. I've decided my computer
||| has become an anti-Bill Gates/Microsoft machine. Anyone have any ideas?
||
|| Well, you had a virus which may have corrupted the harddrive disk. I
|| would
|| use a zero-fill utility on it such as one can get at no charge from
|| Maxtor [MaxBlast4]. Use it to create a bootable floppy that you can use
|| to
|| zero-fill out the virus from the harddrive.
||
|| If that does not fix it, I would consider a memory problem as well. It
|| could
|| be a coincident problem. Windows XP and other NT variants tend to be be
|| more
|| sensitive to a RAM memory problem than some other operating systems. Use
|| memtest86.exe (well known) to test the memory and see if there is a
|| problem.
||
|| Your computer is not "anti-Microsoft". It just wants some care and
|| attention.
||
|| [MaxBlast4]
||
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...oftware Downloads/Top Downloads&downloadID=57
||
|| The TinyURL to same website:
||
|| http://tinyurl.com/7kk3j
||
|| [Memtest86]
|| http://www.memtest86.com
||
|| ----
|| Newbie
||
||
|| None of those will do me any good since I can't boot Windows. I made a
|| bootdisk CD from bootdisk.com and the same thing happens (black screen)
|| as with my recover CD's. I do not have a floppy drive on this machine.
|| Linux works fine and that was loaded from a CD. My bootdisk works on
|| other computers, so that is good.

Maxblast and Memtest are both for creating bootable 3 1/2 inch floppy
diskettes to boot your computer. You run the utilities on these diskettes.