Pc questions

[thecornerman]

My pc will not boot up
I can arrow up right at the time this screen comes up but the enter button doesn't choose any option
Then it will go back though the start up screens ending up back to here
Any ideas? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200821/0a6f2c32fd24e1e39a526df6f36052d5.jpg

[The_Dude]

You need boot from a repair disk.

[thecornerman]

Humm, Something I don't have

[The_Dude]

Humm, Something I don't have

If you have another computer you can make one.

[thecornerman]

Well, this is an older XP pc, does that matter

[higgyburners]

shut it off and unplug any unnecessary usb devices and turn it back on...see if that helps

[thecornerman]

Nothing plugged in, I'm able to get a menu screen by holding F8

[The_Dude]

If you can't pick the safe option, your hosed. You might try one of those PC repair shops and see if they have an XP repair disk. If you're lucky the drive isn't bad.

[thecornerman]

I choose a setup.exe file that was a design program and after the install the pc restarted and never booted up like the design program took over and is not able to run windows

[The_Dude]

sounds like your drive might be going bad.

[thecornerman]

Ouch!

[The_Dude]

you can pull the drive and put it in another pc and run chkdsk on it. If you don't have a way of doing that, and this PC is important to you, I'd just take to the guy. If they can't fix it, they can recover your data.

[Rodnok1]

So you installed a program and now it won't boot up? The plot thickens.
If you can't get into safe mode you will need a recovery disk.
There are other options... Big hammer is one. :kick:

[z06psi]

C:\format

[mrvette]

A few weeks ago, I think I was on FB, and got taken over......

so to shop and so question is.....

does anyone know of a fellow I was friends with, in corvette circles....

I think he was in Texas name spelled maybe wrong......Shawn Rhode??

anyway, I search FB all over and nothing pops up....tried all sorts of spelling variations.....

:dance::confused5:

[Wathen1955]

You need a Windows boot disk. Then you can run the command: chkdsk /f /r
because it sounds like hard drive corruption, sectors that can't be read, hard drive failure, or the boot sector of the hard drive has issues.

There is a tool called "spinrite" that I've used before to fix bad and unreadable areas of the hard drive.

[carlton_fritz]

The problem is 4 letters. SONY.:leaving:

[Grey Ghost]

arrow up and highlight one of the options. Try the safe mode. Highlight it and let it reboot. Then try the others. You don't have to hit enter.

If you select 'command prompt'
type in: chkdsk /f*

[thecornerman]

The problem is 4 letters. SONY.:leaving:How did you know?

[thecornerman]

arrow up and highlight one of the options. Try the safe mode. Highlight it and let it reboot. Then try the others. You don't have to hit enter.



If you select 'command prompt'

type in: chkdsk /f*Ok, thanks