KenB Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 have managed to get it to boot livecd. This is a CD-based Operating System isn't it? Which specific Disk are you using ? I would be inclined to take the hard drive out and connect it to another machine. We can test it from there. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
mil1638 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Posted January 21, 2013 The discs i am using are UBUNTU and one from Slitaz. linux. I have HDD mounted onto desktop now Quote
KenB Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The discs i am using are UBUNTU and one from Slitaz. linux. They are both Disk-based Operating systems - or could be loaded as an OS on the drive. They do not have a "repair" option as far as I know. I have HDD mounted onto desktop now Is the drive recognised? Does it get allocated a drive letter in Start > Computer ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
mil1638 Posted January 21, 2013 Author Posted January 21, 2013 Yes HDD recognised. I have full access to all files Quote
KenB Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 The hard drive will be allocated a letter if you click on Start > "Computer" Make a note of this. Then click Start > type in ......cmd .....click on the cmd.exe that appears top left > Run as Administrator At the prompt type ..... chkdsk /f X: ......where X: is the drive letter for your drive (there is a space between each ) This will check the drive for errors. Also run WinDFT (this is Hitachi but you can run it on any disk ) click here Let me know the results please. You can try booting up from the drive again - no harm done. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
mil1638 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Posted January 23, 2013 Have accessed hdd and run WinDFT , no issues have shown up. I have aslo downloaded another version of Ubuntu [3rd]and have managed to get it to load, even with HDD mounted which is a first, not sure if this is a fluke or whether i have made a mistake previously burning ISO image. so now ihave live system what can i do to restore windows to a previously working state? Quote
KenB Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 so now ihave live system what can i do to restore windows As I said before - Ubuntu / Linux etc is a disk-based OS. There is nothing on the disk that will allow you to repair your Windows OS. If you ran chkdsk /f this may have fixed errors on the drive . Have you tried booting the drive again ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
mil1638 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Posted January 23, 2013 Sorry, i will rephrase my question. Now that it seems my laptop is working ok physically i.e HDD,RAM, CDROM and motherboard, what ,if anything,can i do to get windows working again? I have tried booting again several times, have checked repair discs on desktop (they work fine) and have tried again on laptop but get stuck again at scrolling bar Quote
KenB Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 Put the drive back in the machine and switch on. Immediately start tapping F8 about once per second. Can you get to the Advanced Start-up Options ? If so - there should be an option to "Repair Your Computer" Is this a possibility ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
mil1638 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Posted January 23, 2013 I have lost the ability to get into 'advanced start-up/boot option' , i just simply cannot access it now. One of the first things i tried to do was 'repair your computer option' . I tried this around 3 times as well as 'system restore' without success, each time i ended up with the scrolling bar. Since then F8 will not work, i can use F2 to access BIOS or F10 to access multi-boot menu. I am currently doing Memtest86+ v4.20 from Ubuntu start-up menu and this seems to be showing up several errors ?????, i will post when test complete Quote
mil1638 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Posted January 23, 2013 Ok, forget that, just found this:- [h=3]Bug Description[/h]Trying to check the memory at newly bought notebook I found a bug in the memtest86+ version 4.20 in ubuntu 12.10, in ubuntu 12.04 it is ok. The bug is reported at least in Fedora and Opensuse. It is assumed that the bug is caused by the gcc-4.7. It is easily reproducible - select the test #7 in memtest or just wait till it - starting from the 129Mb it will report a lot of errors. I have checked it on three different systems , two of them I use on a daily basis and would note if RAM is really bad. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805813 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2012-09/msg04386.html -- SRU Justification [impact] Users of memtest86+ will get false positives of memory failures. This will cause users to suspect hardware and require unnecessary testing/headaches. [Test Case] Boot Ubuntu in Quantal/Raring. At GRUB select memtest86+. Wait until the 7th test. It will fail at the 7th test. [Regression Potential] The fix is just adding another register to clobber in the inline assembly routine. Because this affects newer GCC versions, older releases aren't affected. Thus, if there are compiler changes we should re-test. Quote
mil1638 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Posted January 23, 2013 Also from the same menu i have been able to get into eMachines recovery management, however it will not let me choose 'restore to factory default' option Quote
KenB Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 From PCHF So i think we can call this problem solved. All ok now ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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