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Gah, laptop wont boot

iwanttosave_2
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I've got a laptop which last night was running perfectly, turned it on today and it wont boot.
It starts fine, shows the pentium processer symbol, but wont continue booting.
Tried going through safemode and it gets to
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\DRIVERS\isapnp.sys
Then just sticks there.
Do you think its my hard drive or do you think this might be fixable? I have a few things on the harddrive I want to recover at least.
I can still hear the hard drive spinning.
It starts fine, shows the pentium processer symbol, but wont continue booting.
Tried going through safemode and it gets to
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\DRIVERS\isapnp.sys
Then just sticks there.
Do you think its my hard drive or do you think this might be fixable? I have a few things on the harddrive I want to recover at least.
I can still hear the hard drive spinning.
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
Save the cheerleader, save the world!
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Forgot to mention, I am getting no error messages at all so I don't think ts BSOD.Work like you don't need money,Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watchingSave the cheerleader, save the world!0
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I have tried doing it from the last config but no look there, the screen just goes blank.
I don't have an XP diskWork like you don't need money,Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watchingSave the cheerleader, save the world!0 -
toshia laptop or fujitsu ??
seen some problems with them
can be Ram thats failing as well
I'd agree with the microsoft artice posted aboveEx forum ambassador
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Its an EPS laptop (or advent, its one of those generics with a different badge on)
Its not saying that the above file is missing, just when I try going into safemode and it lists all the files like above, it gets to that one then stops, like maybe the next file on the list is missing?
I think I will just have to see if I can beg/borrow an XP disk from someone?Work like you don't need money,Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watchingSave the cheerleader, save the world!0
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