My computer has a black blank screen with a flashing curser

Dime_Bar

MunchyMunch wrote: »

@withabix

Haha, well it was an excuse to upgrade the computer generally as in my experience when the battery goes you may as well upgrade but it does really depend on what you use the computer for. Simple word processing then no need.

I think your getting confused here, the battery that has been suggested as the problem is a little button cell (like a watch battery) that keeps things like the clock set when the pc is unplugged. The cost under £1, your probably talking about a laptop battery which is a different kettle of fish.

xjoannexxx

It's windows xp and I don't have the disk for it
I can press esc that goes to boot menu
f1 goes into set up in that I tried pressing f5 to load defaults but that hasn't helped
f10 says system recovery when I press that it says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device

xjoannexxx

F8 doesn't do anything it just says the same as when I press f10, there's no disk in and I have taken my USB stick out

waddler_8

xjoannexxx wrote: »

I can press esc that goes to boot menu

If you select the option for you hard drive, what happens?

xjoannexxx

There's only one option I can select

waddler_8

Which is?
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xjoannexxx

It's got another one now I just restarted it

Pm-wdc wd2000js-60mhb1
Sm-tsstcorpcd/DVDs ta-h552l

waddler_8

xjoannexxx wrote: »

Pm-wdc wd2000js-60mhb1

Choose that - what happens?

xjoannexxx

It goes to the blank screen with the flashing curser and then says the same thing as when I press f10

waddler_8

Follow this tutorial to make a bootable Recovery console disk, and then run chkdsk /r as shown.

http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=95574