HELP!! PC broke

Sublime_2

bossymommy wrote: »

Just been looking at how to do it......OMG! Its all so confusing...im a woman btw lol

Snowman here i come...back soon

I hope you were joking. :rolleyes:

I had a problem with Bootmgr is missing, and it turned out my Motherboard needed replacing.

Are you a member of a library, or can you get access to someone elses PC to see if you can get a working copy of Ubuntu installed to disk. Can you get hold of a disk with an OS, doesn't matter if its ubuntu, xp, vista, etc, just to check to make sure its not a hardware issue.

bossymommy

Sublime wrote: »

I hope you were joking. :rolleyes:

I had a problem with Bootmgr is missing, and it turned out my Motherboard needed replacing.

Are you a member of a library, or can you get access to someone elses PC to see if you can get a working copy of Ubuntu installed to disk. Can you get hold of a disk with an OS, doesn't matter if its ubuntu, xp, vista, etc, just to check to make sure its not a hardware issue.

Joking about what?? The snowman? lol

I am hopefully going to do windows repair if i can get the bios settings changed. Am on that screen now......i think :-(

gonzo127

well good luck hope it fixes it for you

bossymommy

Ok...so i have changed the setting to usb cdrom. Saved it and restarted. Said "boot from cd-press any key to continue" and am still getting the ntldr is missing :-(

Sublime_2

bossymommy wrote: »

Joking about what?? The snowman? lol

I am hopefully going to do windows repair if i can get the bios settings changed. Am on that screen now......i think :-(

Never mind. Don't worry, drove me nuts when mine wasn't working.

It could be a hardware issue as previously suggested, but after doing a google came up with these. I assume you have access to a pc at the moment, so try printing a few of these pages out, and hopefully one will sort you out.

bossymommy

Another update...sorry to be a pest! Got into windows repair but have forgotten admin password. Had 3 attempts then it restarted! Looks like i may have to re-install windows!! Great! But i suppose thats better than having to buy a new one :-)

JasX

bossymommy wrote: »

Ok...so i have changed the setting to usb cdrom. Saved it and restarted. Said "boot from cd-press any key to continue" and am still getting the ntldr is missing :-(

is good news as its a fair sign you'll be able to boot from your CD drive. 2 non Linux/Ubuntu options you might consider would be:

1- popping in a windows CD (of whatever version of windows you have) and attempting to 'repair' your windows install (or go for an install froom scratch)

(if you think the hard disk itself might be suspect)
2-download the low level hard disk diagnostics from the site of whoever made the hard drive, make a boot CD with that on and test/repair your hard disk before proceeding to step 1 above

3-Finish the snowman

JasX

bossymommy wrote: »

Another update...sorry to be a pest! Got into windows repair but have forgotten admin password. Had 3 attempts then it restarted! Looks like i may have to re-install windows!! Great! But i suppose thats better than having to buy a new one :-)

oh, thats good, (cross post above) are you sure you actually set one? if not try hitting enter without entering a p/w

bossymommy

Tried that too

Gave up on the snowman...its too cold! hehehe

gaming_guy

wow, i'm lost in this thread.

first off, why are people recommending linux when all thats needed is a winXP CD and this guide?.

and if you need to reset the admin password, then use this