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PC not starting up
Iriah
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My PC has been freqeuntly failing on startup. It gets to the Windows moving-bar-loading screen and then the harddrive starts clicking for a while, and eventually the bar stops moving and I'm forced to hold down the power button.
All points to the hard drive, right?
However!
I can start it up in Safe Mode. I've run chkdsk.exe and it turns out fine. This says to me it's something with Windows, or my registry or something like that - things I know nothing about.
If you could give me any help at all that'd wonderful
The bloody vexing thing about it is that it works quite a lot of the time, like when I've not touched for a couple of hours. Then it starts up fine. Others, not so much.
All points to the hard drive, right?
However!
I can start it up in Safe Mode. I've run chkdsk.exe and it turns out fine. This says to me it's something with Windows, or my registry or something like that - things I know nothing about.
If you could give me any help at all that'd wonderful
The bloody vexing thing about it is that it works quite a lot of the time, like when I've not touched for a couple of hours. Then it starts up fine. Others, not so much.
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I couldn't actually find a solution that didn't involve formatting the install drive. But i keep things i want to keep on one drive, and install everything to another, so it didn't bother me much.
Good luck tho.
Run a windows repair from your windows disk.
If that fails, format and reinstall.
Also if you don't do this already.
It's a good idea when you are installing windows to make a partition for windows and windows alone. Basically format the disk and make a 10-20 gig partition to install windows on. This way if windows starts misbehaving you can just format this partition and reinstall windows without loosing anything. If the disk dies, well you're just SoL then.
I'll let you know how it goes.
And I say important because you only have a finite amout of time left with it. Quicken/Quickbooks data, homework assignments, pictures of memories that have no duplicate first. Music, movies, that folder full of hilarious image macros last.