Hard drive for packard bell easy note

debitcardmayhem

I just re-read and you say it hangs on black screen for hours, I would have hoped it would crash by now. I will need to get some beauty sleep for now, and think some more.

Just so anyone picks up on the thread in the meantime.

1) Do you have any USB Devices Plugged in (if so try without them)

2) Which Windows have you Vista/XP

3) remove anything from the CD

4) What was the last thing that was done before the problems started (if you know

5) do you have a windows CD or just a Packard Bell repair disk

Good Luck for now and will check in the morning sorry not much help so far.

loopylass30

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I just re-read and you say it hangs on black screen for hours, I would have hoped it would crash by now. I will need to get some beauty sleep for now, and think some more.

Just so anyone picks up on the thread in the meantime.

1) Do you have any USB Devices Plugged in (if so try without them)

2) Which Windows have you Vista/XP

3) remove anything from the CD

4) What was the last thing that was done before the problems started (if you know

5) do you have a windows CD or just a Packard Bell repair disk

Good Luck for now and will check in the morning sorry not much help so far.

I appreciate all the help you have given me so far

no usb deviced plugged in

Windows vista premium installed

ive a packard bell repair disk and a windows cd

nothing in the cd drive

the problem started during a windows update, the screen was flickering and when the laptop was moved,(even just touched) it froze, he had tp press the power button to turn it off, and its been doing this ever since he tried to turn it back on.

thanks for all the help so far, bed time for me now too, illpop back after work tomorow.

thanks

loops

debitcardmayhem

Might be worth tryng Last known Configuration from F8 then see ya today

Donnie

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

As an aside I think the Lappy does not have an access panel to the disk drive I think you have to lift off the whole top/base assembly (mind you I may be mistaken)

I'm sure you are right.

loopylass30

Donnie wrote: »

I'm sure you are right.

Oh crikey , so im definately better off getting someone to fit it then, or is it do-able if i found out how ?

debitcardmayhem

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Might be worth tryng Last known Configuration from F8 then see ya today

Tried this yet ?

loopylass30

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Tried this yet ?

Hi again,
ive tried last known configuration and it done a file check on system c went thru stage 1 - 3 ok but then the same happens "windows is trying to start up your computer.

debitcardmayhem

Is the windows cd you have Vista Home Premium disk ?
If so you can try booting from that and select repair your computer (DO NOT select install )
Then you can either select system restore and select a restore point from before the problem started or select startup repair .
I'm going tocook dinner now, Mrs Debit is hungry, will be back soon

loopylass30

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Is the windows cd you have Vista Home Premium disk ?
If so you can try booting from that and select repair your computer (DO NOT select install )
Then you can either select system restore and select a restore point from before the problem started or select startup repair .
I'm going tocook dinner now, Mrs Debit is hungry, will be back soon

Done what you said using the windows disk and tried the restore but it says no restore points available, so i tried the repair and it ran a repair and said system volume on disc is corrupt, but it said this was repaired successfully, and to restart, however the same thing happens again.

debitcardmayhem

Hi again,

looking terminal then. Is there any data you need to recover from the lappy ? And if so is there lots and do you have an external drive you can use, a linux Live CD or sysrescuecd will help with that.
Assuming that linux can read the disk !! it would also be possible to save the data using your Network to one of the other PCs in the house.

The other option that may save the system volume if you have no data to lose is to reboot with the windows cd again and select command prompt from system repair, then enter - CHKDSK /R
this tries to recover any back bits of disk (I am not sure if the repair option uses CHKDSK /R or CHKDSK /F - less rigorous)